Greentech Lead Europe: European Commission has come out
with a list that ranks EU countries based on the efficiency in waste management
practices. Austria and the Netherlands have been ranked the best in the table
with 39 points apiece, PlasticsNews reported.
Other high-achieving countries included Belgium, Denmark,
Germany and Sweden, who all send less than five per cent of their waste to
landfill. Greece fell to the bottom of the pile as it could not get anything
right in accordance to EU waste management policy. The debt-ridden country
scored a measly three points, closely followed by Bulgaria (eight points) and
Malta (nine points).
European Commission will use the information to create
roadmaps for the ten worst performing countries. The Commission, however, said
it will invest in waste management projects in these countries if certain
conditions are met, such as the development of plans in accordance with the
Waste Framework Directive.
The information obtained from the report will now be used
to create roadmaps for the ten worst performing countries, which will then be
discussed with national authorities in the autumn. However, European Commission
is only prepared to invest in waste
management projects if certain conditions are met, such as the development
of plans in accordance with the Waste Framework Directive.
“With the challenges we are facing today in Europe,
it makes no environmental or economic sense that seven EU member states are
diverting over 90 per cent of plastics waste from landfill, while 15 others
still bury over 60 per cent,” said Wilfried Haensel, executive director of
PlasticsEurope, a Brussels-based trade group for resin manufacturers.
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