Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-02-12-Speech-1-124"
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"Mr President, the Directive states that the harmonisation of terminology and the definition of waste will improve the effectiveness of waste management in the Community. However, in the present draft, loose terminology has increased problems of interpretation.
For example, it contains a definition of recycling of materials defining it as ‘recovery and re-processing of waste into products, materials or substances whether for the original or other purposes’, without specifying what these ‘other purposes’ are. Nor does it distinguish between a product that may become waste from a material and a substance. In its formulation, for example, scrap created within steelworks could be treated as waste that completely bypasses the recycling loop to the plant via the market, and may become an element of abuse.
I would also like to draw attention to another issue already raised by my colleagues here, which is that minimising costs, which includes the social costs, of implementing the directive, is made largely dependent on a more balanced treatment of recycling and other forms of reclaiming materials, and a certain liberalisation of the waste hierarchy for those countries that are not yet ready for costly recycling. However, we must develop effective systems for collection, separation and disassembly in order to encourage ordinary EU citizens to dismantle and recycle materials rather than incinerate them. Unfortunately, I see none of this in the Directive."@en1
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