Brussels, 23/11/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament approved the own-initiative report by Dorette Corbey (Labour, NL) on the implementation of the 1994 directive on packaging and packaging waste. It regretted last week that, in 1998, only Austria, Belgium, Germany and Sweden had reached the mandatory 15% recycling of plastics. It noted that, of the 12 Member States having submitted data (all except Greece, Ireland and Portugal), only Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom had not...