2023-06-05 18:39:45
Faced with these accusations, TotalEnergies defends itself in a press release. “[…] Many measures are in place. A wind tunnel since 2014a first for the polymer industry, removes the pellets from the trucks before quitter the site, netting is installed along fences to reinforce the boundary between the site and the public realm, and site employees are trained and empowered in the prevention, cleanup, and disposal of spills. The Feluy site complies with all applicable local and national regulations governing pellet spills and adheres to Of course the conditions of its operating permit. […]”reacts Tom Claerbout, group communications director for Belgium.
Ecaussines has tried to find an administrative solution by requiring the factory to use closed containers and no longer bulk transport bags, but the problem persists since balls continue to escape from the production factory. Faced with this feeling of powerlessness, some associations are campaigning for a European legal framework to limit this pollution. “For the moment, the predictions announce that we are going to experience an increase in the consumption and production of plastic in the European Union. If at the present time, we are not able to control this production and prevent this plastic pellets end up in the environment, so imagine what this production could become in ten or twenty years if we don’t impose a regulatory framework now?”, wonders Lucie Padovani, in charge of European lobbying on the question of aquatic litter for the Surfrider Foundation Europe.
The European Commission had undertaken to prepare a text for May 17th. Postponed twice, it should finally be presented in the fall of 2023.
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