NATIONAL WASTE POLICIES IN EUROPE AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE UNITED KINGDOM PAPER AND BOARD INDUSTRY

Abstract

Environmental legislation is creating a new role for recycling as a means of combating the growing problem of waste disposal But unilateral action by Germany and a number of other members of the European Community to collect waste paper and board at public expense is causing grave problems for paper and board makers in the UK where recycling as an instrument of public policy does not exist. As a result, they face a severe raw material cost disadvantage when compared with their counter‐parts on the Continent. Unless this competitive imbalance is corrected, Britain will forfeit major sections of its paper and board industry. The nature of this crisis is explained, and its setting in the context of changing international attitudes to waste established.

Citation

COOPER, I. (1993), "NATIONAL WASTE POLICIES IN EUROPE AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE UNITED KINGDOM PAPER AND BOARD INDUSTRY", Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, Vol. 1 No. 3, pp. 255-261. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb024773