The European Waste Management Association (FEAD) is concerned by attempts in the European Parliament to broaden the scope of the revision of the Waste Framework Directive (WFD). According to the umbrella organisation, which represents the interests of Europe's private sector waste management companies, a proposed expansion of the recycling definition "to include fuel production, not only from waste" is especially problematic. "Such a proposal is highly unclear and can put in danger all currently ongoing investments in recycling capacities and technologies," FEAD said at the end of October.
The amendment was among those proposed by the EU Parliaments lead rapporteur Anna Zalewska, an MEP from Poland's PiS party
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