ACR+ is the associations of cities and regions for recycling and sustainable resource management. ACR+examined with attention the EC waste policy.

ACR+ agrees with the need to clarify the EU targets
concerning waste prevention and management
ACR+ supports the opinion adopted by the EU Committee of the Regions (CoR), in
which it proposes to introduce ambitious and binding new targets on waste
production, collection, treatment and recycling.

The CoR proposal includes:
 reducing 2010 levels of waste by 10% by 2020
 exploring options to raise the recycling target of solid municipal waste to
70% by 2025,
 ensuring that 100% of waste is subject to selective sorting by 2020
 exploring options to raise targets for recycling plastics to 70% and for glass,
metal, paper, cardboard and wood to 80%
 prohibiting the landfill of biodegradable waste by 2020
 banning the incineration of recyclable waste (including biowaste) by 2020