Friends of the Earth Cardiff Cyfeillion y Ddaear Caerdydd

Cardiff Friends of the Earth Coordinator, James Maiden, handing Chair of the Environmental Scrutiny Committee, Simon Wakefield, a Message in a Bottle. Photo: Lyndsay Maiden.

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Ask for EU recycling targets

The European Union is currently reviewing its main waste law, the Waste Framework Directive. There is a disagreement between the European Parliament and the EU member states over what should be in it.

Early in 2007 the European Parliament voted that EU countries should stabilise their waste production by 2012

They said EU countries should recycle 50 per cent of municipal waste, and 70 per cent of industrial, construction and demolition waste by 2020.

At the Environment Council vote in June 2007 ministers from the member states didn't even attempt to reach agreement on these targets.

We need to ensure that recycling targets are kept in the final law at the Second Reading of the Directive during the first half of 2008.

Contact the Commissioner for the Environment Stavros Dimas to press for binding recycling targets.