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EnviMin Plumb met with UK counterpart Edward Davey
Romania will pursue the British model as regards the integrated management of waste and measures to combat climate change, Romanian Minister of Environment and Climate Change Rovana Plumb declared on Tuesday at the end of a working meeting with British Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Edward Davey.
'Today's talks focused on three major subjects related to environment and climate change. Specifically, we discussed the vision of the member states on climate change and measures to combat and adjust to its effects. The second subject refers to the issue of waste in Romania, considered in connection with the program we launched - 'Think, Eat, Save' and the model we want to take over from the UK. This is about biomass, namely about converting household waste into energy or biomass. The third is a topic that has been intensely debated in Romania these days - shale gas,' said the Romanian Minister of Environment.
In this context, Rovana Plumb said that Romania will follow the British integrated waste management model.
'Our main concern is to implement in Romania those European models that proved most efficient in terms of environment and climate change, as well as observing and implementing the highest environmental standards in all the domestic activities. To this effect, we want to take over the British model of integrated waste management, but this is also about the measures we will jointly reach as regards the combat of climate change,' said Rovana Plumb.
The official added that Great Britain's National Plan is fine-tuned as far as the conversion of household waste into biomass is concerned.
'In Romania, our target is to cut to half, by 2020, the five million tonnes of food waste that are currently produced every year. We want to turn this waste into a source of energy, biomass more concretely,' explained the Minister of Environment.
On Tuesday, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Rovana Plumb met with UK counterpart Edward Davey for talks at the Bucharest Village Museum; the meeting was occasioned by the visit the British Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change was paying to Romania.