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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11438

26 November 2015
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) environment
Parliament rejects recycling of plastics containing phthalate DEHP

Brussels, 25/11/2015 (Agence Europe) - It is out of the question for the European Parliament that the European Commission should approve, as it has proposed, the recycling of plastics that contain DEHP, a phthalate that softens plastic but which is recognised as posing a reproductive toxicity threat.

That was the clear message sent to the Commission by MEPs in Strasbourg on Wednesday 25 November with their overwhelming plenary session vote (603 to 86, with 5 abstentions) in adopting its...

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