This vote in Strasbourg will save more than 20 000 direct green jobs in the paper industry and an estimated additional 140 000 indirect jobs in Europe, according to CEPI.
"We are glad to see the European Parliament remembered that the original purpose of defining when something is no longer to be considered a waste was to facilitate recycling not to obstruct it," comments Teresa Presas, CEPI Director General, on the outcome in Strasbourg.
"If this proposal had become law it would also have burdened the global environment with needless additional energy use and emissions. It's a good decision.”
If this legislation had passed, it would have relaxed the EU's waste management rules and triggered a flight of waste paper out of the EU to Asia, pushing up prices in Europe and undermining the quality of waste paper available for the European recycling sector, says CEPI.
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