Background data collection for waste plastic recycling and recovery pathways

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<b><i>Please note that this is not a call for tenders but a publication announcing the Contracting authority’s <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/40287" target="_blank">intention to publish a future negotiated low or middle valueprocedure. </a> </i></b><br></br>The objective of this contract is to collect detailed technical and socio-economic data with regard to recycling and recovery routes of waste plastics, in particular chemical recycling, mechanical recycling and energy recovery. The data to be provided via this work will serve as a basis to compare mechanical recycling, chemical recycling and energy recovery of waste plastics. Comparing these plastic waste management options at end-of-life will require taking into account the collection, sorting and recycling operations. In particular, the collected data should serve as a basis to calculate the greenhouse gas emission savings from plastic recycling options compared to linear options consisting of virgin plastic production and disposal at the end of life.