This policy brief is a collaboration between two projects – CREAToR and REMADYL – that aim to develop innovative technologies to recycle plastics with hazardous legacy additives. Both projects cover the entire recycling chain of plastics, from the collection of waste, purifying and recycling the polymer, to the demonstration of the recovered material in demonstrator parts. As such, the two consortia share for a large part the same legal and other obstacles when it comes to developing a circular economy for plastics.