Waste management in practice

Involves finding beneficial uses for waste such as recovering energy by burning it recycling it to produce a useable product or composting to create products such as soil conditioners and growing media for plants. 

The destruction, detoxification or neutralisation of wastes into less harmful substances. 

By incineration or landfill without energy recovery. Secure land disposal may involve volume reduction, encapsulation, leachate containment and monitoring techniques. 

2 STEP 2 Categorise waste according to legal definitions 

3 STEP 3 Select the best waste management option 

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The battery producers are obliged to monitor and analyse the results obtained with the collecting operations. They must submit an atmual report to the authority for waste management. In practice, this regulation compels the producers to participate in the recycling process and introduces the producers responsibility . 

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