Bottled up. (European Parliament approves packaging policy)
Economist (US), The, December, 1994
IN THE long tussle between a cleaner environment and free trade, packaging plays a lowly but crucial part. When governments insist that bottles should be refilled or cans recycled, they make life easier for local companies and harder for foreigners. That helps to explain why the European Commission has taken several years to win agreement on a packaging policy for Europe. At last, a packaging directive has been through all the legislative stages--including conciliation to sort out a row with the European Parliament--and on December 14th it won parliament's approval.
Member countries now have until 2001 to recover at least half their packaging rubbish and recycle at least a quarter of it. Europe's poorer countries will get more time. If individual countries want to...
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
