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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10997
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) environment

It is urgent to tackle plastic waste

Brussels, 15/01/2014 (Agence Europe) - It is urgent to tackle plastic waste, the volume of which has increased spectacularly over the last decades and half of which is dumped in landfills. It would be appropriate for the most dangerous plastic waste and the use of certain plastic bags to be banned by 2020, the European Parliament states in a resolution adopted by show of hands in Strasbourg on Tuesday 14 January. Approving Vittorio Prodi (ALDE, Italy), the author of an own-initiative report...

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