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"Mr President, I, too, would like to thank Mrs Jackson and Mr Blokland for the outstanding work that they have done, but I would ask the Commission to back us on two points that are of particular importance to my own country – Austria – and also to Germany. One has to do with catering waste, which is sterilised using a particular treatment process in which they are heated to over 130° and can then be re-used for feeding pigs. This is something that we see as being of enormous importance, and it also reflects the circulatory concept of waste management, since waste that is not needed by human beings can be taken out of the food chain, sterilised, and then put to good use as animal feed.
There is also the question of biowaste; here, too, I would like to ask the Commission to follow the examples of a few Member States that have very well-developed and well-functioning systems to deal with biowaste, and bring in a proposal in addition to the one we have already, although it should also take a favourable view of the amendments tabled by our group in particular.
Generally speaking, this is where we get close to a core issue in our prosperous society, in that we must at last succeed in decoupling economic growth – which is generally desirable – from the growth in the volume of waste, both in relative and absolute terms. It is not acceptable that the mountain of refuse should be constantly growing, and that we should think ourselves richer as a result. As is envisaged, this state of affairs must be stabilised by 2012 at the latest.
Even though I see the proposed measures – including a mandatory hierarchy with the possibility of deviation from it only when this is clearly justified by life-cycle analyses – as the right way to go about it, I do nevertheless believe that the Member States need to transpose this in the right way, with the Commission monitoring it properly, if the abuses described by some Members are to be avoided."@en1
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