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EU Rules/Laws/Regulations on WasteManagement

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Aim

Every year two billion tonnes of waste is produced in EUmember countries

Neither stockpiling nor destroying are proper solutions

The best practice is to prevent the production of wasteby recycling with available economical and ecologicalmethods

EU waste management policies aim to reduce theenvironmental and health impacts of waste and improve

Europes resource efficiency. The long-term goal is to turn Europe into a recycling

society, avoiding waste and using unavoidable waste asa resource wherever possible.


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EUs Waste Management Policy

EU waste policy has evolved 30 years through a series ofenvironmental action plans and a framework of legislation,

The EUs Sixth Environmental Action Programmme(2002-

2012) identified waste prevention and management as one offour top priorites,

Primary objective of this action is to ensure economic growththat does not lead to more and more waste

The EU waste management policy is based on the revised

version of Waste Framework Directive All these aim in recycling 50% of municipal waste and 70% of

construction waste in EU mamber states by 2020.


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Five Step Waste Hierarchy

This directive introduces a five step waste hierarchy

Good waste management starts with preventing

waste being produced

Re-use involves repeated use of products andcomponents for the same purpose

Recycling reduces the amount of waste that ends up in landfill sites while cutting

down on the material amount needed from the enviorenment

Modern waste incineration plants can be used to produce electricity, steam and

heating for buildings.

Landfill is the least desirable option since it may produce methane(greenhouse gas),

soil and groundwater pollution etc.


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Legislations

EU has placed directives, regulations, commission communications and

council decisions belows 6 main topics

These are composed of legislations formed by the European Parliament and

the Council(EC/EU), the European Economic Community(EEC) and the

European Atomic Energy Community(Euratom)

EU member states are responsible for obeying these legislations and there

are cases where memeber states are punished.


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Overall Layout

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General Framework

Hazardous Waste

Waste From Consumer Goods

Waste From Specific Activities

5 Titanium Dioxide

6 Radioactive Waste and Substances


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General Framework

Directive on waste Directive: EC 2008/98/EC

Waste management statistics

Regulation: EC 2150/2002

Landfill of waste

Directive: EC 1999/31/EC

Waste incineration

Directive: EC 2000/76/EC

Shipments of waste

Regulation: EC 1013/2006

Strategy on the prevention and recycling of waste

Commission communication: COM(2005) 666 (Not published in the officialjournal)

The management of the bio-waste in the European Union

Green paper: COM(2008) 811 (Not published in the official journal)


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Hazardous Waste

Basel Convention Council decision: 93/98/EEC

Council decision: 97/640/ECC

Controlled management of hazardous waste

Directive: 1991/689/EEC (valid until the end of 2010)


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Waste From Consumer Goods

Packaging and packaging paste Directive: 94/62/EC

Disposal of PCBs and PCTs

Directive: 96/59/EC

Disposal of spent batteries and accumulators

Directive: 2006/66/EC

Directive: 91/157/EEC

End-of-life vehicles


The reusing, recycling and recovering of motor vehicles


Directive: 70/156/EEC Waste electrical and electronic equipment



Restricted substances in electrical and electronic equipement

Directive: 2011/65/EU


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Wastes From Specific Activities

Industrial Emmissions Directive: 2010/75/EU

Integrated pollution prevention and control

Directive: 2008/1/EC (Until 2013)

Management of waste from extractive industries


A strategy for better ship dismantling practices

Commission communication: COM(2008) 767

Removal and disposal of disused oil and gas installations


Use of sewage sludge in agriculture

Directive: 86/278/EEC Port facilities for ship-generated waste and cargo residues



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Titanium Dioxide

Disposal of titanium dioxide industrial waste Directive: 78/176/EEC

Surveillance and monitoring of titanium dioxide waste


Reduction of pollution caused by waste from the titanium dioxide industry



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Radioactive Waste and Substances

Shipments of radioactive waste: supervision and control Directive: 2006/117/Euratom

Shipments of radioactive substances

Regulation: Euratom 1493/93

Situation in 1999 and prospects for radioactive waste management


Management of spent fuel and radioactive waste

Directive: 2011/70/Euratom


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References

Being wise with waste: the EUs approach to wastemanagement, European Union, 2010

Waste management in Europe: frameworks, trends andissues, Hall D., 2010, EPSU

http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/environment/waste_management/
http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/environment/waste_management/http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/environment/waste_management/


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