Brussels, 19/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - In a report calling for a more ambitious approach by the European Union to tackling the ever greater mountains of packaging waste, the Environment Committee (chaired by Caroline Jackson) felt that manufacturers and distributors should be made liable for preventative waste packaging management. The own initiative report drafted by Dutch Labour MEP Dorette Corbey was adopted by 18 to 6 with 23 abstentions. It analyses the implementation of the 1994 Waste...