Transcript William Neale - Municipal Waste Europe

"Talking Rubbish"
Municipal Waste Europe
(14th May 2013)
William NEALE
Member of Cabinet
Commissioner Potocnik
European Commissioner for Environment
Northern hemisphere average
surface temperature
Population
CO2 concentration
Loss of tropical rainforest
and woodlands
GDP
Water use
Species extinctions
Paper consumption
Motor vehicles
Fisheries exploited
Ozone depletion
Foreign investment
Source: “How our economy is killing the Earth”, The New Scientist, 16 October 2008
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Roadmap on Resource Efficiency
2020
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aspirational objectives
Full implementation of the EU waste acquis
Waste generation per capita in decline
Recycling and reuse are economically
attractive and at 'max feasible level'
4. Energy recovery limited to non-recyclable
materials
5. Landfilling virtually eliminated
Issues
1.Member States' Performance
2.Statistics & Calculation
3.Simplification
4.Waste Hierarchy
5.Instruments