Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-02-12-Speech-1-112"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union must at last provide itself with new instruments to limit waste generation by promoting re-use, recycling and recovery in order to reduce the adverse impact of waste on the environment. Without specific, Europe-wide recycling targets, the Member States that have not developed recycling technologies will try to achieve their landfill reduction targets by favouring incinerators and ignoring the environmentally friendlier steps.
The principle of the five-step hierarchy will not in itself be able to prevent that, and therefore we must aim at recycling at least 50% of biodegradable waste, promoting separate collection and recycling systems, and ensuring that re-usable or recyclable materials are not disposed of in landfills or incinerators.
Mrs Jackson’s amendments, whereby municipal waste incinerators may be classed as recovery rather than disposal facilities, do in fact undermine the application of the five priority stages and throw the door open to private incineration businesses. If we really want Europe to become the recycling society of the future, we must aim above all at prevention, cutting back waste generation and then encouraging re-use and recycling."@en1
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