The German Packaging Order: a model for state-induced waste avoidance?

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The German Packaging Order was aimed at decreasing and recycling packaging wastes. However, this attempt to regulate packaging waste has raised the issue of the extent to which industry is allowed to organize responsibilities and share costs. The Order has increased industry costs, and a possible response among industries is to illegally dispose their waste to countries with lower standards and cheaper costs like France. France, as a result, is contemplating on banning the import of German plastic waste. Furthermore, the EC may set a common standard of environmental protection to deter conflict.

Laws, regulations and rules, Germany, Waste management, Recycling (Waste, etc.), Recycling, Packaging, European Community

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Strangled by green tape

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UK competitiveness will be negatively affected by new European Union environmental proposals and directives. The European Union is right to try to encourage more sustainable waste disposal and waste reduction, but legislation is not necessarily the best way to reorganize the UK's waste infrastructure. This has already been seen in the UK's implementation of the European Union directive on packaging and packaging waste in the form of regulations which fail to take into account the significant problems faced by the recycling industry.

International Affairs, Intnl Environmental Law, United Kingdom, International environmental law

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The future of EU environmental policy

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There are many factors which play a role in determining European Union environmental policy. International and national political developments exert pressure, as do often unpredictable changes in the natural environment. Carefully devised policies and spending plans which have an impact on utilities, industry and the community as a whole can be suddenly overturned by developments within nature itself. Environmental policy is now regarded as one of the most important policy areas of the European Union.

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