Definition issue hampers progress in waste prevention

摘要

Waste prevention policy would be helped if people could agree on a subject that has caused controversy since waste legislation began - what actually is waste - delegates said at the municipal waste prevention workshop at the end of last month. Under the waste framework Directive member states can meet the 50 per cent recycling target by composting, "this is linked to the Danish and German texts that called for a strict interpretation of the waste in the WFD," Jean-Pierre Hannequart, managing director of the Institute of Brussels Environmental Management (IBGE), told the Brussels meeting.