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Stop the waste

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Update on the Waste Framework Directive

On 13th February MEPs backed our key demands in their first reading vote on the revision of the EU's main waste law. If you have already taken part in the Stop the Waste action and emailed your MEPs, thank you for helping us achieve this victory.

The Parliament voted that EU countries should stabilise their waste production at 2008 levels by 2012, and recycle 50% of municipal waste and 70% of industrial, construction and demolition waste by 2020.

MEPs also rejected a proposal to re-brand so-called ‘efficient' incinerators which would have led to an increase in incineration.

At the end of June EU Member States voted on the new law. There will now be a second reading in Parliament, with another vote at the end of 2007 or early 2008.

For more information

Friends of the Earth Europe waste web page:
www.foeeurope.org/activities/waste_management/

European Environmental Bureau:
www.eeb.org/activities/waste/

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