This study estimates potential energy savings found through increased resource efficiency in select product groups, sectors and examples of industrial symbioses in the EU. Six areas offer the greatest energy savings from resource-efficiency initiatives: improving general recycling efforts,...

Separate collection of individual waste fractions is seen as a pre-condition for fostering high quality recycling and high recycling rates. Thus, Article 10(2) of the Waste Framework Directive (WFD) sets the general requirement of separate collection and obliges the Member States (MS) to set up...