Buildings generate a significant amount of waste that has considerable impacts on environment and energy flow. This study aims to investigate the waste capacity of the selected district and its effect on the environment within the current waste management policy via Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)...

One of the key objectives of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is to instigate design for the environment. In collective EPR schemes, the fee schedule set by Producer Responsibility Organisations (PROs) is typically quite simple and provides weak incentives for design change by producers....

This report is part of a larger series of stocktaking and analytical products on plastic pollution in South Asia. It supports the Bank's commitment to work with countries of South Asia to pursue and scale-up policies and programs that help them move toward a circular plastic economy and, in...

This book explores an escalating modern-day crisis; managing waste in a sustainable way. The central question posed is whether advancing a circular economy provides a way to shift waste management practices towards more sustainable approaches. It begins with an in-depth analysis of the nature of...

This roadmap is based on analyses of the experiences with waste management in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Japan, Romania, and the European Union (EU) generally. The experiences of other countries concerning waste management - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Russia -...

By 2050, the world is expected to generate 3.40 billion tons of waste annually, increasing drastically from today’s 2.01 billion tons. What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050 aggregates extensive solid waste data at the national and urban levels. It estimates and...

This paper discusses the role of sustainable landfilling of municipal waste in the current systems of municipal waste management systems as the manner of final disposal of wastes. The actual data considering share of landfilling as final waste disposal in various countries all over the world...

"This book examines the importance of a circular economy model or a regenerative system for the sustainable development of nations. It also explores various aspects of a circular economy such as using resources efficiently through long-lasting design, maintenance, repair, reuse, remanufacturing,...

Two of the main pillars of the EU waste collection policy are the Proximity Principle and Self-Sufficiency Principle. According to those, waste should be disposed as close as possible to where it has been produced. The effect of such provision is to increase the market power of local disposers,...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration -- Map -- Introduction -- 1. Time and Place -- 2. Growth and Garbage -- 3. Sewage and Society -- 4. Recycling and Value -- 5. Technology and Imperfection -- 6. Local...

Stetig wachsende Mengen an Siedlungsabfällen und die damit verbundenen Umweltprobleme sind ein zentrales Thema in der von Politikern und Abfallexperten geführten internationalen Diskussion. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die aktuellen ökonomischen Instrumente zum Abfallmanagement,...

Stetig wachsende Mengen an Siedlungsabfällen und die damit verbundenen Umweltprobleme sind ein zentrales Thema in der von Politikern und Abfallexperten geführten internationalen Diskussion. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die aktuellen ökonomischen Instrumente zum Abfallmanagement,...

In this paper we apply the Lenzen and Reynolds (2014) Waste Supply Use Table extension of Nakamura and Kondo's (2002a) Waste Input-Output (WIO) framework to the 2008 Australian economy. This is the first application of any WIO-style method to Australia as a nation. We find that the Services...

The EU advocates a household waste recycling rate of more than 70%. Although the Netherlands already years ago invested in recycling policies heavily, this is still a large challenge as nowadays on average this rate is approximately 50% and nearly no municipalities have a rate above 70%. Given...