On 28 November, the European Parliament’s Environment Committee voted in favour of a forward-looking waste prevention policy to halt the growth in waste production by 2012. However, progressive recycling targets were not adopted.

Dr Michael Warhurst, Waste & Resources Campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe, said that there is a general support for recycling among MEPs. Friends of the Earth Europe and the EEB will press for more recycling measures to be introduced into the legislation. Their target is 70 percent recycling by 2020, and a commitment that landfill and incineration of reusable, recyclable and compostable material should be banned after 2025.
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