(UK) The government stands accused of apathy in failing to clarify the level of contamination acceptable within recovered paper being exported abroad for reprocessing.
Atlantic Paper director has said: "It is impossible to run serious businesses on the basis of phrases that are open to all sorts of interpretations. Yet the officials both here and, it appears, in Holland studiously avoid clarification. This is despite literally years of consultation at the highest level with our industry representatives. Everybody knows that zero contamination is impossible in secondary raw materials and yet this lack of clarity in its own rules has led EA cargo inspectors to enforce this unrealistic standard in respect of waste paper exports."
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Atlantic Paper director has said: "It is impossible to run serious businesses on the basis of phrases that are open to all sorts of interpretations. Yet the officials both here and, it appears, in Holland studiously avoid clarification. This is despite literally years of consultation at the highest level with our industry representatives. Everybody knows that zero contamination is impossible in secondary raw materials and yet this lack of clarity in its own rules has led EA cargo inspectors to enforce this unrealistic standard in respect of waste paper exports."
(To read the complete story, click the headline link above)
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