{"id":107,"date":"2017-02-04T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eebtestsite.oldcontinent.eu\/?p=107"},"modified":"2017-05-22T15:56:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T13:56:38","slug":"organisations-call-for-ambitious-recycling-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/organisations-call-for-ambitious-recycling-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"NGOs call for defunding of incineration capacity in Central and Eastern European countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Brussels, Bucharest, Ljubljana, Prague, Sophia, Warsaw, Vilnius and Zagreb<\/h4>\n<h4>Following a call from the European Commission for defunding of waste-to-energy, NGOs urge Central and Eastern European (CEE) governments to reconsider any potential investment in waste incineration.<\/h4>\n<p>On 27 January, the European Commission [1] called on Member States to address incineration overcapacity and prioritise waste prevention by repair and reuse as well as recycling instead.<\/p>\n<p>NGOs have taken the opportunity to express concern over potential new investments in over 80 waste incinerators and about 40 mechanical biological treatment facilities across CEE countries.<\/p>\n<p>The construction of new incineration facilities could come as a result of an old agreement with the European Commission which was signed prior to the release of the Circular Economy Package in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>CEE countries were granted \u20ac 5.4 billion to improve waste management systems, including recycling, for the period 2014-2020. However, the agreement also envisaged the allocation of over 50% of the available funds for the development of thermal treatment and incineration facilities.<\/p>\n<p>NGOs said that if governments carry through plans to expand incineration, they will jeopardise the implementation of a progressive waste reduction and recycling system.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please see <a href=\"http:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/civil-society-organisations-call-for-ambitious-recycling-targets\/\">original communication from NGOs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>List of signatories:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arnika &#8211; Toxics and Waste Programme<\/li>\n<li>Alliance of Associations Polish Green Network (PZS)<\/li>\n<li>Association New Idea (SNI)<\/li>\n<li>Alter eko Foundation<\/li>\n<li>CEE Bankwatch Network<\/li>\n<li>Circular Economy Lithuania (ZE)<\/li>\n<li>Ecologists Without Borders (EBM)<\/li>\n<li>European Environmental Bureau (EEB)<\/li>\n<li>Friends of the Earth Bulgaria (ZZ)<\/li>\n<li>Friends of the Earth Croatia (ZA)<\/li>\n<li>Friends of the Earth Czech Republic (HD)<\/li>\n<li>Friends of the Earth Europe<\/li>\n<li>Friends of the Earth Hungary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Notes to Editors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/environment\/waste\/waste-to-energy.pdf\">http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/environment\/waste\/waste-to-energy.pdf<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels, Bucharest, Ljubljana, Prague, Sophia, Warsaw, Vilnius and Zagreb Following a call from the European Commission for defunding of waste-to-energy, NGOs urge Central and Eastern European<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,139],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-waste-recycling","tag-waste-recycling"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Waste-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}