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"Mr President, there is no doubt that we need this legislation: we are absolutely drowning in a sea of milk cartons, hair sprays, coke cans, pizza boxes, bottles of wine and shampoo. They are evident in every town, city and street we go into across the Union, in particular the UK. Landfills are reaching capacity, incinerators are overflowing and the wads of excessive packaging we use should go.
This legislation, if it signals the end of just one elaborate box, fancy bottle or something wrapped in plastic and sold in a heavyweight bag, will have done its job.
However, I would call on everyone here to recognise the importance of allowing time for change. Ministers are calling for a 2008 date for the UK and some of the other states. I would ask you to support that. Culture change takes time. The UK is meeting its existing recycling targets, but it is simply not possible to meet and implement this legislation by 2007 without an expensive, crash-spending programme. The figures do not look very significant, but they represent millions of tonnes of material which must be collected, recycled and new markets found. A realistic timetable for implementation is five years. Any attempt to compress this time will result in spiralling costs – if not quite as much as Mrs Jackson says. Nevertheless, we need time and we will do the job."@en1
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