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, ‘plastic’ 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 component of final products with the exception of natural polymers that have not been chemically modified. The EPDLA considers a main structural component to be the framework of an article. Without this framework, the article has neither body nor strenght. For most applications of water-based polymer dispersions and redispersible polymer powders made thereof, EPDLA considers these products to be outside the scope of the Single Use Plastics Directive (SUPD), as they are not regarded as a main structural component in the end product. In our position paper, we would like to explain our reasons for this.