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"We cannot ignore it any more: apart from an economic, financial and climate crisis, we are heading full-speed towards a commodity crisis. Abundant and inexpensive commodities that we are used to and around which we have organised our consumer society are rapidly becoming scarcer and more expensive.
I am therefore very pleased with Mr Gerbrandy’s report, which focuses really sharply on the problems and which maps the routes forward to fight this crisis tooth and nail. In particular, I support wholeheartedly the proposals that call for a better functioning single market with a view to encouraging reuse and recycling, dismantling environmentally damaging subsidies and setting up price instruments so that, in the manufacture of new products, we can make the use of recycled materials more advantageous, for the making of firm agreements, for setting up measurable parameters for resource efficiency and for an ambitious revision of the Ecodesign Directive.
This is the only way that Europe will manage raw materials more efficiently. It is good for the environment, but it is also vitally important for the survival of our economy, an economy that urgently needs to be adjusted in order to become more sustainable."@en1
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