The issue of multi-material papers was the main obstacle in the way of an agreement on end-of-waste criteria for recovered paper at a meeting of the European Commission's Technical Adaptation Committee held earlier in July. But despite this setback, the European Recovered Paper Association's President Merja Helander of Lassila & Tikanoja in Finland is confident that paper - "as a very good and clean raw material" - will achieve end-of-waste status by the beginning of 2014 at the latest, she told delegates at the Bureau of International Recycling's (BIR) Paper Roundtable held last month in Barcelona.
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