Single use plastic products can be manufactured from a wide range of plastics. According to the definition given in article 3 of the directive (EC) No 2019/904, plastics means a material consisting of a polymer as defined in point 5 of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, to which additives or other substances may have been added, and which can function as a main structural components of final products with the exception of natural polymers that have not been chemically modified. The EPDLA considers a main structural component as the skeleton of an article. Without this skeleton the article will have no body nor strength.