Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-05-23-Speech-3-431-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-05-23"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120523.21.3-431-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Satu Hassi2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (2012-02-13--2014-06-30)3 member; ENVI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ITRE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with India (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Vihreä liitto (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would sincerely like to thank the rapporteur, Mr Gerbrandy, for his excellent work. Improving resource efficiency – in other words, creating well-being by using natural resources less – is simply vital if we want industrial societies to be able to continue to exist. It is a welcome move by Mr Potočnik, European Commissioner for the Environment, that he has made the issue a special area of his work, and the Commission’s road map is also a welcome development. Rather less appealing is the fact that, for more than two years, no concrete proposal on the issue has been forthcoming from the Commission. For example, no progress whatsoever has been made in extending to the EU as a whole the practice of charging a deposit to improve the recycling of metal beverage packaging. This works very well, at least in my country. Most of the report by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety deals with the call for clear and measurable indicators and sectoral targets. We all now know that these are needed if something is actually going to happen. If targets are only very general, they will remain mere words. It is important to be able to reduce the use of natural resources, especially virgin natural resources, in absolute terms. It is not enough to cut the consumption of natural resources in proportion to the volume of production if, at the same time, overall consumption of natural resources still increases. Many measures are required, and one of these is improved recycling. It is contradictory and irrational to make a lot of political speeches in which people express their concern about the availability of rare earths, even though, at the same time, we recycle less than 1% of them. For example, one tonne of recycled electronic equipment may contain 15 times more gold than a tonne of standard gold ore. A tonne of recycled mobile phones might therefore save 15 tonnes of gold ore, and many other ores besides. The other side of the coin of the wasteful use of natural resources is the mining boom, something that is also evident in my country, and which will soon make the landscape look like Swiss cheese, especially in the north. Unfortunately, some mines have become notorious for causing emissions in the environment that are many times, or even many hundreds of times, greater than their authorised values. Everything that we can do to improve resource efficiency and step up recycling will also reduce all the environmental harm associated with mining."@en1
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