Traduction de «Réduction des déchets à la source » (Français → Anglais) :

It is also disappointing that waste incineration is increasingly becoming the ultima ratio at the expense of waste avoidance.

On the question or prioritising the prevention of waste over its management, the Commission, in principle, shares your view that it is more important to prevent waste than to manage it.

22. Calls for the setting up of a Working Party on Waste Prevention, consisting of experts from the Member States and the Commission, to evaluate, within a period of two years, current and new data and studies on waste prevention and to draw up indicators for waste prevention and practical recommendations for measures; the findings of the working party should be forwarded to the European Parliament and the Council in a report and made available to the public; the Commission should, on the basis of the report and the data expected by 2006 by way of the regulation on waste statistics, propose a legislative framework on waste reduction that sets ...[+++] up the various tools needed to implement and accompany the objectives set for waste reduction, namely:

19. Calls for the setting up of a 'working Party On Waste Prevention', consisting of experts from the Member States and the Commission, to evaluate, within a period of two years, current and new data and studies on waste prevention and to draw up indicators for waste prevention and practical recommendations for measures; the findings of the working party should be forwarded to the European Parliament and the Council in a report and made available to the public; the Commission should, on the basis of the report and the data expected by 2006 by way of the regulation on waste statistics, propose a legislative framework on waste reduction that sets ...[+++] up the various tools needed to implement and accompany the objectives set for waste reduction, namely:

This includes principally the Waste Framework Directive [111], which requires Member States to ensure that waste is treated without endangering human health or the environment, lays down permitting and inspection obligations and to adopt waste management plans, the Landfill Directive [112] which sets requirements for safe landfill and the reduction of waste going to landfill, in particular biodegradable waste, the Packaging Waste Directive [113], which sets recovery and recycling targets, the Incineration Directive [114] which sets em ...[+++]ission limit values for incinerators, and the ELV [115] and EEE [116] Directives, which set recovery, recycling and reuse targets and take-back obligations for end-of-life vehicles and electronic and electrical equipment respectively.

Opponents wrongly claim that the incineration of household waste would curb the use of so-called real renewables, such as wind and solar energy, increase CO2 emissions and undermine recycling policy and restrictions on waste production.