Recommendations for further work

Enhanced cooperation of Nordic customs authorities to ensure:

implementation of useful, enriched, and structural data on waste shipments in common digital system for European customs
that experiences from the customs frontline is addressed during implementation of new regulation waste shipments and underlying legal acts, including sharing of risk profiles, unwanted incidents, and current problematic shipments.
harmonization of supervision, risk profiles, categorization, data registration, investigation, and legal enforcement.
collaboration on efficiency through implementation investments in technology, such as:
- NIR-scanners and scanners
- Data analysis and machine learning on structural data to improve the efficiency of inspections combining cargo-weight, information on exporters, data on waste photo recognition and radiographs etc.

to follow up on UNITARs work on plastic-keys and decide on how the Nordics best can contribute with data in general and Nordic-specific information.
ensuring that the Nordics follow a common methodology on data reporting on
primary-, semi-finished- and finished-, waste- plastics.
contributing to developing harmonized waste reporting, including common and fact-based recycling rates and rates on process-loss in the value chains.
to map what data on waste from large industries that are easily available on what format to implement cost-effective, automated reporting schemes with sufficient data collection and reporting requirements.
to standardize methods for waste analysis to get better insight into large waste streams like the construction sector and industry.

product passes provide more information on polymer composition, additives, source and use throughout the value chain to enable closed loop recycling.
measures are implemented to improve information flow and connect providers and demanders of plastic feedstock and recycled plastic with matching needs.
supporting the need of improved incentives for recycled plastics