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ESA welcomes breakthrough on new Waste Framework Directive
04.06.2008
ESA has welcomed today’s breakthrough of COREPER’s support for various amendments tabled by the European Parliament to the proposed new Waste Framework Directive.
“Governments’ agreement on timed European recycling targets of 50% for household waste and 70% for construction and demolition waste marks real progress in building the Recycling Society in Europe. Our industry welcomes this challenge,” comments Dirk Hazell, ESA’s Chief Executive.
“The European Parliament has been well served by its outstanding Rapporteur, Dr Caroline Jackson MEP, who stood her ground in persuading Europe’s governments to accept recycling targets originating in the European Parliament.”
“We would very much now like to see the European Environment Agency developing a role as an auditor of national environmental agencies to ensure that in this area and others European environmental targets really are genuinely secured on time,” he concluded.
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1. ESA is the UK’s sectoral trade association for waste and secondary resource management, an industry accounting for 0.5% GDP.
2. COREPER represents the European Union's governments and consists of the Member States' ambassadors to the EU.
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Contact: ESA Press Office – Dr Steven Toole (020) 7591 3219; s-toole@esauk.org
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