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‍16 X 2026 - Watercooler Europe Fair in Torremolinos

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‍7 XI 2025 - Watercooler Europe Fair in Milano

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‍7 III 2025 - European commission confirms the ban of polycarbonate bottles with prohibition schedule

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‍19 XII 2024 - Commission adopts the ban of Bisphenol A in food contact materials

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‍11 X 2024 - WE conference and trade fair in Bucharest

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‍9 II 2024 - European Commission published a proposal to ban BPA for food container material

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‍11 I 2024 - BPA in food containers in France: almost €20 million in fines

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‍22 XI 2023 - European Parliament adopts amended Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation including bisphenol A ban

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‍16 XI 2023 - Ellen MacArthur Foundation published a study about returnable packaging opportunities including the beverages

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‍27 X 2023 - WE conference & trade fair in Vienna

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‍14 IX 2023 - EEA reports about today human exposure to BPA

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‍19 IV 2023 - EFSA sets a lower BPA tolerable daily intake and concludes BPA is a health risk

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‍2023 - Links to follow Europe policy about BPA

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‍19 IV 2022 - Vöslauer reduces carbon footprint with returnable PET bottle

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‍2022 Autumn - Meet us at WE fair in Lisbon - NEW DATES!

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‍22 XII 2021 - BPA: EFSA draft opinion

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‍6 IV 2021 - 11 litre PET refillable bottle

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‍7 I 2021 - Viki Plast becomes a part of the WISECAP group

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‍7 XII 2020 - Independent analysis reveals reusable packaging up to 85% more climate-friendly than single-use

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‍4 X 2020 - Solving Plastic Pollution | Narrated by Sir David Attenborough & Dame Ellen MacArthur

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‍15 VII 2020 - Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa shows the way…

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‍20 V 2020 - A new scientific study, undertaken as part of the CLARITY-BPA project

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‍8 IV 2020 - Carbios report about its enzyme to recycle the PET

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‍2020 autumn - Meet us at WE fair in Lisbon - NEW DATES NEXT 2020 2021 AUTUMN 2022 EASTER AUTUMN!

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‍13 II 2020 - Plastic recycle option: pavement!

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‍10 I 2020 - New production location for PET preform

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‍15 X 2019 - Rethink Plastic

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‍20 IX 2019 - EU court confirms BPA as endocrine disruptor

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‍21 VI 2019 - Heat wave: the App you need

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‍27 III 2019 - EU parliament seals ban on throwaway plastics by 2021

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‍24 I 2019 - Refillable packaging: A major trend

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‍2019 autumn - Meet us at WE fair in Berlin

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‍29 X 2018 - New plastics economy global commitment

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‍12 IX 2018 - Petcore Europe published a PET factsheet

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‍2018 autumn - Meet us at WE fair in Ireland

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‍20 VII 2018 - Huffpost article about BPA research in USA

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‍14 VI 2018 - Opportunity for HOD water business

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‍28 V 2018 - Proposal for EU directive on single-use plastics

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‍8 III 2018 - Meet us during BWCA conference & trade show

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‍12 II 2018 - UE increased the restrictions with respect to Bisphenol A

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‍20 IX 2017 - Give your feedback to European Commission about next BPA regulation!

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‍2017 autumn - Join us at DRINKTEC and WE

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‍19 VI 2017 - ECHA classified BPA as a presumed human reproductive toxicant

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‍19 VI 2017 - HODMETER is in PET Planet (n°6 2017)

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‍13 I 2017 - BPA added to the REACH candidate list

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‍5 VII 2016 - An extra ring for our preform

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‍17 III 2016 - Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6 eats PET

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‍9 III 2016 - RIVM recommends more stringent EU standards BPA

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‍2 X 2015 - 5-gallon PET bottles in Alger Carrefour

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‍17 IX 2015 - French Constitutional Council modified the law banishing BPA

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‍1 VII 2015 - Hot days: French government information

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‍29 V 2015 - Ineris website about BPA alternatives

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‍11 V 2015 - BPA listed as know to the State of California to cause reproductive toxicity

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‍24 IV 2015 - PET bottle from 11-litre to 5-gallon

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‍11 II 2015 - Side handle update: now 100% PET

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‍21 I 2015 - Bisphenol A: EFSA scientific opinion

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‍16 I 2015 - Doubts about co-polyesters replacing PC

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‍12 I 2015 - EU and its member states clash over BPA and phthalates

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‍1 IX 2014 - Greif & Hodmeter

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‍24 IX 2014 - PET bottle production in Alger

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‍25 VIII 2014 - BPA and food intolerance

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‍2 IV 2014 - ECHA changes its opinion about BPA

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‍3 III 2014 - Distribution in Curitiba

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‍17 I 2014 - BPA: EFSA annoucement

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‍21 X 2013 - Coca Cola Deutschland

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‍7 X 2013 - Opinion summarizing today BPA issue

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‍18 IX 2013 - Facts about BPA

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‍31 VII 2013 - FDA reviews its position with BPA

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‍17 III 2013 - Refillable bottles are back in Paris