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"en.20111214.22.3-218-375"2
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"I voted in favour of this important resolution on the use of phosphates and other phosphorus compounds in household laundry detergents. The aim of the current Commission proposal for a regulation is to reduce the amount of phosphorus used in detergents in domestic washing machines. Phosphates end up in our water systems, rivers, streams, lakes, and notably the Danube Basin, and the Baltic Sea. Phosphorus encourages the excessive growth of algae, which starves other living organisms of oxygen and can also produce toxins, killing fish, plants, and other species, as well as reducing the quality of the water itself. Therefore, in order to clean up Europe’s water, we should reduce the amount of phosphorus entering it, and should do the same throughout the world. I therefore believe that, above all, we need to encourage people to use biological detergents with minimal phosphate content and set a legal limit on the phosphate content of various household laundry detergents. I therefore wish to call on all EU Member States to immediately set about implementing this regulation and to make every effort to stop phosphates being used on an unjustifiably large scale. Otherwise, rather than leaving future generations with a Baltic Sea, a Danube Basin or other waters with varied flora and fauna, we will leave them with swamps."@en1
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