Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-04-01-Speech-4-194"

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dcterms:Date	"2004-04-01"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20040401.4.4-194"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Patricia McKENNA2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, waste is a major problem throughout the European Union. If we take municipal waste for example, what we produce is far in excess of the targets set in the Fifth Environmental Action Programme. The prevention of waste is one of the ways of tackling it, because the disposal of waste – whether through landfill or incineration – causes health and environmental problems. Many people in the European Union are trying to tackle the issue of landfill sites situated near homes or the fact that incinerators are being planned in some countries, including my own to try to deal with the waste problem. That is the wrong road to go down. The Commission's communication is a first step towards having a strategy that covers prevention and recycling. We welcome the fact that the report has included some very important things, such as waste reduction plans. It is all very well to say we will have them, but this is meaningless without some effort to ensure that happens, so it is essential that they are compulsory. The promotion of re-use is extremely important and particularly respect for the judgment of the European Court of Justice that waste incineration of municipal household waste is disposal and not recovery. It was regrettable that the review of the packaging directive did not deal with this properly. The judgment was clear in itself, so how could anyone consider that the incineration of household waste was the same as recovery? We regret that we were unable to change the whole pro-incineration approach to a pro-recycling approach. This is essential because, by following the road of incineration, any incentive to reduce and look at alternative ways of dealing with the reduction of waste is destroyed."@en1
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