EUROPEAN COMMISSION PLANS BUSY YEAR FOR BOOSTING RECYCLING

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has released information on planned initiatives for what will be a busy year regarding the boosting of recycling in the European Union (EU). Anticipated actions include a green paper on sustainable consumption and production, suggesting improvement to "integrated product policy, and including ecolabel, environmental management schemes, resource and waste policies and innovation."This oncoming broad-based consultation document was revealed in the Commission's latest annual environmental policy review, which has been released ...


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