EP MAKES CRUCIALWASTE DIRECTIVE VOTE
December 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament's environment committee has moved to remove drafting problems from a crucial new European Union waste framework directive insisting upon a hierarchy of waste treatment for all materials. Put simply, all governments, regulators and public policy developers would ensure waste is: first prevented; second reused; third recycled; fourth recovered; and only finally, disposed of. Environment committee spokesman Caroline Jackson, a British conservative MEP, feared the current directive could be challenged over its legal ...
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