The Association of the European Self-Care Industry, AESGP, has criticized European Union regulators for singling out the pharmaceutical and cosmetics sectors to pay for pollutant removal as part of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive.
“Doing our best to protect the environment is a societal obligation for which we are all responsible,” commented AESGP director general Jurate Švarcaite. “It seems to us, however, highly disproportionate...