Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-02-12-Speech-1-118"
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"I congratulate the rapporteur, especially his ambitious commitment to slowing down the dangerous growth of the mountain of waste. If a turnabout is not achieved, it will no longer be people who bury the waste, it will bury us. The time has come for us to learn to live differently, because, as with climate change, the consequences may be difficult to eliminate, if not fatal.
In Lithuania, as in most new European Union Member States, the disposal of waste in landfill dumps is still the most widespread method of dealing with it. Municipal councils lack the specialists and the funds that would be required for waste minimisation, sorting and recycling. The majority of people are still not prepared to support progressive methods of dealing with waste, and there is a lack of legal control. Manufacturers and importers try to avoid responsibility for dealing with waste.
The European Union consistently commits large sums of money to improving this situation. I would like to encourage old EU Member States to actively pass on to the newcomers their experience in stimulating private investment in waste management, improving legal control, and explaining to people the need to protect the environment and not to lop off the branch on which we all sit."@en1
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