Improved waste management is an essential element in efforts to make Europe more resource efficient. If a country is to … resources that it takes from nature, while cutting the burden of emissions and waste. One key means of achieving that is by … shifting waste management up the waste hierarchy - reducing waste disposal (for example land filling) and instead focusing on …

Using a life-cycle perspective, this report analyses the greenhouse gas emissions from municipal solid waste management … waste management in these countries has already cut annual net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 48 million tonnes CO2 … landfill and increased avoided emissions through recycling; - if all countries fully meet the Landfill Directive's waste …