Incinerators will no longer receive support from the European Cohesion Fund after 2020
- The European Parliament’s Committee on Regional Development has today voted to cut European Union aid to waste dumps and incinerators from 2020 onwards. Parliamentarians have argued that this will allow more money to be spent on the prevention, reuse and recycling of waste in order to achieve the objectives of the circular economy of Europe by 2035.
The news has been broadcast by the ZWE Zero Waste Europe alliance, which is leading the opposition. The Organization ' s Development and Policy Coordinator, Janek Vah, has spoken as follows: "It represents significant progress towards more efficient use of resources, enabling businesses, public authorities and consumers to save money while increasing employment and reducing greenhouse gas emissions."
However, ZWE has expressed concern about the exemption of economic aid to certain waste combustion plants in the European peripheries, as the derogation may be aimed at the already weakened economies in those regions and will make it difficult to achieve their recycling objectives: "Why should Europe promote the permanence of obsolete technologies on its islands if, during this time, we see them overcome in the rest of Europe? ".
Adopted by the Committee on Regional Development, it will now have to be ratified by the European Parliament. Zero Waste Europe has called on parliamentarians to vote in plenary to ratify with their vote that landfills and incinerators should be excluded from the Cohesion Fund and to remove these exceptions from the proposal.
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