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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11047

27 March 2014
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) environment
Waste recycling rising but still too much incineration

Brussels, 26/03/2014 (Agence Europe) - Treating municipal waste is good but not incinerating it is even better. Almost all waste in the EU in 2012 was treated but, although incineration should be the last resort in the hierarchy of waste treatment defined by EU legislation, according to Eurostat (the EU's Statistics Office) statistics published on Tuesday 25 March, it is still a very frequent practice in a number of countries. Over a period of almost 20 years, however, progress in recycling...

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EU SUMMIT/UNITED STATES
SECTORAL POLICIES
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
EXTERNAL ACTION