ESA Welcomes Waste Framework Directive Approval

The UK’s waste and recycling industry has welcomed today’s approval of the Waste Framework Directive by the European Council of Ministers. This followed a revision agreement between the European Parliament and Commission back in June.

Commenting, Dirk Hazell, ESA’s Chief Executive, said:

“ESA is delighted that the Council of Ministers has given their seal of approval to the new Waste Framework Directive today.  

“Thanks to the brilliant steering of this Directive through the European Parliament by the Rapporteur, Dr Caroline Jackson MEP, it will now help to make Europe more economically and environmentally sustainable as we work to build Europe’s Recycling Society.”

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Notes to editors

ESA (Environmental Services Association) is the UK’s sectoral trade association for waste and secondary resource management, an industry accounting for 0.8% GDP. See www.esauk.org for further details.

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