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"Mr President, first of all, I should like to thank both rapporteurs. They have both done an excellent job in handling this complex issue.
Our waste mountain is still growing, and that is certainly a trend that needs to be bucked, because we have to move towards a world without waste, a world where all spent products and packaging materials form the raw materials for new products, where raw materials do not lose their value and where recycling is not the same as downcycling. The new framework directive is moving in the right direction. According to the waste hierarchy, we first need to prevent waste, and if any waste is created, we need to focus on reuse and recycling, in that order. At the moment, 34% of waste is being recycled, and this share must, and indeed can, be increased.
There are two things that I regard as important. First of all, there is producer responsibility. They must be given more responsibility to prevent and process waste. They will need to commit to reuse and recycling. This producer responsibility must be developed further and can, for example, take the form of a duty to take back packaging.
Secondly, a world without waste is still, unfortunately, a long way off. Waste is still being created, despite recycling and prevention, and we must use it as effectively as possible. The unfortunate fact is that 50% of the European Union’s waste is still being dumped, even though dumping is invariably inefficient. This really must stop. Incineration is in any event a more efficient way of disposing of waste than dumping. Modern waste incineration installations can recover waste by extracting energy from it. The choice is therefore not between recycling or incinerating. We need to go for recycling all the way. In the next few years, though, it will be impossible to recycle 100%, and the choice will therefore be between dumping and incinerating, in which case it is better to opt for incineration combined with energy recovery. If this is done in a very effective manner, we will, in any case, be able to substantially cut down on CO2."@en1
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