Waste management in Europe

Municipal waste management in Europe. Environment management, vol. 10. Netherlands Springer 2000, ISBN 978-90-481-5292-6. p. 5-62. 

Total tx)st-use plastics waste management in Europe Association of Plastics Manufactures in Europe (APME)... 

Figure 1.10 Plastic waste management in Western Europe (1996) ...

SOFRES Conseil for APME, Information System on Plastic Waste Management in Western Europe, European Overview, 1995 Data , APME, Brussels, 1997. 

This artiele presents the findings of a study earried out for the Assoeiation of Plasties Manufaeturers in Europe (APME) whieh favours 85 pereent ineineration and only 15 pereent reeyeling (over five other waste management... 

This article discusses the UK Government s plan to make incineration with energy recovery play a larger role in waste management, following a report from the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. Recommendations from the report are included. UK,GOVERNMENT UK,ROYAL COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY INDUSTRY GROUP EUROPEAN COMMUNITY EUROPEAN UNION UK WESTERN EUROPE... 

The example of the textile chain demonstrates (i) how much the techni-cal/aesthetic quality of products and chemicals-related product security are interdependent and (ii) what requirements exist for a quality management system beyond the supply chain level. Only the major brands can take this initiative on a global scale. For cosmetic, medical devices and food products, as well as technical products with high safety requirements (such as aircraft), management systems beyond supply chain level have now become a matter of survival. The same holds true for products that are subject to special waste and design regulations in Europe (such as automotive vehicles and electronic equipment). 

Full-scale demonstrations of Pintail Systems, Inc. s, spent-ore bioremediation process have been conducted at a number of mine sites in the United States. The first full-scale demonstration of the process for cyanide detoxification in a spent-ore heap was performed at the Yellow Pine Mine near Yellow Pine, Idaho, in 1992. In addition, the technology has been used at sites in Mexico and Canada. This technology and several similar bioremediation processes are commercially available through the vendor. Pintail Systems, Inc., is also working with Sub-Surface Waste Management, Inc. (a subsidiary of U.S. Microbes, Inc.), to further apply its bioremediation technologies in the United States, as well as in Europe and Asia. 

However the EU classification of lead stabilisers as reprotoxic, harmful, dangerous for the environment and danger of cumulative effects and their presence (heavy metal) causing issues in waste management strategies, resulted in their agreed phase-out in Europe (see Section 7). 

O. Anango and C. Bertucci, "Municipal Solid Waste A Quantitative Overview, in The Management of Municipal Solid Waste in Europe, A. Q. Curzio, L. Prospetti, and R. Zobali (eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1994, pp. 16-38. 

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