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'A lot of Croatian manufacturers have to import secondary plastics because the quality has to be competitive, while at the same time we are still landfilling an enormous amount of plastics. This is absurd - and it demoralises the recycling industry,' declared Gordana Pehnec-Pavlovic, executive secretary of the Croatian Chamber of Economy at the Identiplast conference, held last week in Vienna, Austria.
In Croatia, 82% of waste is still landfilled. ‘There were about 140 active landfill sites in Germany back in 1970; a lot has changed since then, but just imagine how difficult it is for Croatia to end this practice,’ Pehnec-Pavlovic lamented. ‘We are now where Germany was in 1970, you might say.’