Packaging waste directive

The eurrent and future levels of plastic packaging recycling is discussed with reference to the imminent updating of the 1994 Paekaging and Packaging Waste Directive. Data are ineluded relating to current recovery levels by eountry for western Europe, for mechanical and... 

Wooden pallets are often used only once and disposed of afterward. Approximately 171 million of the 400 to 500 million pallets are recovered and used as fuel. The new packaging waste directive of EU (2004/12/EU), prescribing recycling targets for packaging materials also includes wooden packaging and its recovery. For example, in Finland about 90 percent of wooden packaging is recovered and used as fuel. ... 

This increase in concern has led to the EEC Packaging Waste Directive 94/62 (Table 3.17) which requires ... 

Packaging Waste Directive Contaminated Land Groundwater Regulations Climate Change Levy... 

European Union Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive, 94/62/EC. Producer Responsibility for Packaging Waste, UK Department of the Environment, May 1995. 

Packaging en packaging Waste Directive (1994) http //europa.eu/ legislation summaries/environment/waste management/121207 en.htm. Accessed 13 Oct 2013... 

New higher recovery targets to be met by 2008 have been set in the revised Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (2004/12/EC) based on a percentage of all packaging. The new targets are ... 

Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive, Directive 2004/12/EC, EU Commission, Luxembourg (2004)... 

The Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive and the Producer Responsibility Regulations are directed at the European packaging industry and include ... 

The principle of a level playing field for business is outlined in the Green Report of the Attorneys General of the USA [47]. The same principle is also enshrined in the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive [48], whose primary objective is stated to be as follows. 

European Union (1994) Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive . 

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