PACKAGING WASTE
February 2nd, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved in principle tightening the EU packaging and packaging waste directive so that by 2008, Member States should recycle at least 50 per cent of metals found in packaging waste. In a common position, that returns to the European Parliament for a second and final reading of the legislation, ministers agreed that targets should be imposed on EU Member States, forcing them to recycle between 55 and 80 per cent of packaging waste and recover at least 60 per cent of packaging waste, (with no maximum ...
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