Brussels, 17/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has granted approval with obligations to a system for the collection and recycling of packaging waste put into place by the Austrian company Altstoffrecycling Austria AG (ARA). It has previously authorised similar systems in other Member States. Under a directive from 1994, producers and distributors of packaged products were obliged to take back and recycle, free of charge, used sales packaging from consumers. In Austria, a...