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The European Commission launches a plastics circularity pilot and will propose a Circular Economy Act in 2026, introducing Union-wide end-of-waste criteria, mass-balance rules for chemical recycling, and relaunching the Circular Plastics Alliance to coordinate action. The package cites an EU circular economy investment gap of EUR 82 billion/year, industry-planned chemical recycling investments up to EUR 8 billion, and sets timelines across 2025–2026 including a November 2026 ban on exports of plastic waste to non-OECD countries.