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"Mr President, I welcome the Commission's proposal and the amendments by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy to that proposal, which seeks to improve the existing regulations on the transport of waste, particularly the transnational transport of waste. We recently had the problem of ships sailing from the United States to the UK for dismantling and recovery and when some of them arrived, it was discovered, as we had pointed out here in the European Parliament, that there were no facilities in the UK to do the work under European Union law. They are now lying there during the winter, to be returned to the United States, creating a further risk to the environment.
I welcome the proposals in this report to tighten the definition of waste recovery, to encourage Member States to solve the household waste issue self-sufficiently. I would draw attention to the fact that we in the Republic of Ireland have introduced a 15 cent surcharge on supermarket plastic bags, which has been enormously successful in dramatically reducing the number of plastic bags being issued by supermarkets. This has had a significant impact on the amount of waste. We still have a huge waste problem in Ireland. There is huge resistance to incineration because of health fears, unreasonable in my view, but the fears are there. We have to concentrate on reduction and I hope that this new proposal will help to take us in that direction."@en1
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