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The first essential requirement for a waste recovery and recycling policy is prevention. The prevention of packaging waste involves ensuring that producers base their decisions as to the type and quantity of material used on an analysis of the life cycle of the products, quantifying their environmental impact from the planning stages to disposal. In this way, they can factor those environmental costs into the final price of the product. I regret to say that the Commission’s proposal for a directive did not go far enough in terms of waste prevention. The second essential requirement is that legally binding targets be set. From this point of view the directive is more ambitious, since it establishes targets for the recovery and recycling of packaging waste, especially for the following materials: glass, paper, plastic, metals and wood. Targets, though, only guarantee a change in behaviour if they are realistic, by which I mean achievable. For this reason, I support the targets set in the common position and dispute those suggested by the rapporteur. In particular, I dispute the proposal that the recycling and recovery deadlines set for Portugal, Greece and Ireland be brought forward from 2012 to 2009. It should be remembered that certain characteristics of those three Member States, in particular their scattered territories (which include outermost regions) and populations, make it more difficult for them to reach the targets for recycling and recovery of packaging waste."@en1
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