On the marine litter issue, Belgium’s plastics industry wants to take the? Belgian authorities’ decision to produce an inventory of marine debris in? the country’s coastal waters a step further.??
Federplast.be has invited European sector organisations EuPC and? PlasticsEurope to pay for an extension of the study to be done by the ?University of Ghent and have any microplastics present in marine organisms? analysed.??
“The Belgian authorities and our industry have top-of-the-world know-how? about sustainable materials management,” said Geert Scheys,? secretary-general of Federplast.be.??
The European Environmental Bureau (EEB), which represents 140 environmental? NGO’s in Europe, holds up waste management policies of the Flanders region? as ‘a model for Europe’, stated Mr Scheys.?? He added: “We should promote such policies at international level to set an ?example for those countries which, due to the lack of performing waste ?management systems, are at the origin of most of the waste that pollutes the ?oceans’
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