Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-02-03-Speech-4-385-000"
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"en.20110203.25.4-385-000"2
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"Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) represents the fastest-growing waste stream in the EU and we therefore face a range of challenges: 9 million tonnes now, growing to 12.3 million by 2020. Taking into account these quantities, there is a good business case for retrieving more WEEE: more revenue and jobs for the waste treatment sector; a contribution to the employment of the long-term unemployed and disadvantaged; recovered material has an estimated value of around EUR 2 billion a year. There are important scarce raw materials in WEEE that we should retrieve to lower the need for imports. The recast was very urgently needed in order to tackle climate change, to avoid environmental damage through bad waste management and to keep hold of the valuable resources in electric and electronic equipment. We will need high collection rates, high recycling rates and adequate recycling standards, strong legislation against illegal exports, far-reaching producer’s responsibility, better designed equipment and a fair distribution of responsibilities and costs between producers, consumers and public authorities."@en1
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