16 Amendments of Karl-Heinz FLORENZ related to 2013/2113(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15
Citation 15
– having regard to the Commission communication of 26 January 2011 entitled ‘A Resource-Efficient Europe – Flagship Initiative Under The Europe 2020 Strategy’ (COM(2011)0021), as well as to the European Parliament resolution of 24 May 2012 on a resource-efficient Europe (P7 – TA(2012)0223),
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the EU coulda better performance in recycling would help the EU to benefit in terms of job creation and growth from a robust effort to move towards a balanced, cradle- to-cradle circular economy, Christian based on the concept of waste as a resource;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the economic potential for recycling of plastic waste is much higher than the 33% achieved with regard to plastic packaging waste and the 25% achieved with regard to total plastic waste at the moment;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas statistics on the amount of plastic waste exported outside of the EU are mostly missing;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
Ec. whereas about 80 million tons of plastic waste is estimated to float in the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission's Green Paper and recognises the need for specific EU legislation on plastic waste, as well as more coherent as well as rigorous implementation of the existing legislation concerning waste;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Emphasises that any future regulation should include waste stream specific recycling targets in order to stimulate plastic waste recycling;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the EU legislation on plastic waste should define:be adapted in order to ensure better and more efficient collection systems: - setting specific targets for collection and sorting and mandatory criteria for recyclability (clarifying the distinctions between mechanical/organic recycling and recovery/incineration); the aim should be a target of at least 75 % of recycled plastic by 2020);- introducing separate collection of materials, as well as ensuring a harmonised approach on collection, separation and general waste management across the EU in order to create a level playing field in line with the waste hierarchy; - making possible specific labelling of materials in order to inform consumers concerning their mechanical or organic recyclability; and, finally,about the recyclability of a product, together with indications how consumers could help to increase separate collection, recycling etc.; - identifying criteria for the replacement of single-use and short-lived plastic products by reusable and more durable materials;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Agrees that plastic waste should be treated as a valuable resource by promoting its reuse, recycling, and recovery; believes that in any case landfilling should be bannedcalls on the Commission, therefore, to make proposals by 2020,14 without, however, incentivising as a result the energy recovery option over recycling; considers that, alongside the targets mentioned above for recycling, it is therefore advisable to introduce appropriate sanctions for a view to gradually introducing a general ban on waste landfill at European level and for the phasing-out, by the end of this decade, of incineration of recyclable and biodegradcompostable plwastics, in order to level the playing field for different plastic typese; this should be accompanied by appropriate transition measures including the further development of common standards based on life-cycle thinking; points out that this would also invert an unsustainable tendency that has until now privileged the use of virgin products over the more expensive recycled ones; (Adopted text/ European Parliament resolution of 24 May 2012 on a resource- efficient Europe)
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that the most dangerous plastics, those that are the most disruptive to humare needs to be a separate collection of materials, with an emphasis on certain separations within thealth and the environment (such as micro- and oxo-biodegradable plastics) and those which contain heavy met plastics waste stream (such as degradable and oxo-fragmentable plastics); calls for materials that can also make recycling processes more difficult, should to be phased out of the market or banned outright, as soon as possible before 2020; also believes that, as demanded by a majority of European citizens (and consumers), it is finally time to phase out or ban single-use, non-biodegradable and non-compostable plastic products, also before 2020time to fundamentally reduce the use of single-use plastic products, based on a clear definition what exactly a single-use product is;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Is of the opinion that the two most effective ways of addressing the growing waste burden are awareness raising (with a view to foster waste prevention) and the establishment of innovative waste- management infrastructures;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Is of the opinion that the use of oxo- additives in plastics should be discouraged;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Is of the opinion that the use of biodegradable plastic should not be promoted since biodegradable bags need to be up to twice as thick as normal plastic carrier bags to meet the same criteria and are much more expensive than normal plastic carrier bags; highlights that they only decompose very slowly even in industrial composting plants while they do not degrade in water at all, thus failing to solve the issue of maritime littering; notes that they worsen the littering situation because consumers falsely think they decompose, and finally underlines that they damage the recycling process in general since even two percent of biodegradable content make the entire material useless for recycling;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights that for biodegradable, bio- based and compostable-based plastics, adequate measures should be adopted to promote them, provided their production does not impact negatively on agricultural output for human or animal consumption; also believes that clearer information on their characteristics should be provided to consumers;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls forIn order to foster awareness raising, calls for more concrete action through campaigns, e.g. through the establishment of a European Day for plastic waste, on which citizens could return any volume of plastic waste to predetermined points in return for appropriate monetary compensation, as a means of ensuring the supply of recyclable plastic and increasing public awareness of recycling; considers that this event could also or through events such as a "Clean up Europe" day, includeing community beach cleaning activities, as a symbolic contribution to the containment of coastal pollution caused by plastic waste;