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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10349
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment

Harmonised definition of when waste is no longer waste

Brussels, 31/03/2011 (Agence Europe) - An EU regulation adopted by the European Commission on Thursday 31 March should give a serious boost to recycling in the EU because the new end-of-waste regulation sets out clear criteria to decide exactly when waste is no longer waste and is actually a new product or a raw material. The setting of the new criteria was required by the new EU Waste Directive to sharply increase recycling and reduce the use of new natural resources as far as...

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