Regenerative Energie
Back in the early 1980’s regional planners recognized that many landfills were close to their maximum capacity and new waste sites were difficult to open due to increased environmental / ground water protection requirements as well as the increasing resistance from nearby citizens who feared the emissions and increased traffic could decrease the value of their property.
Studies indicated that Germany would run out of landfill capacity by the early 1990’s. Incineration of waste has been the preferred alternative of waste treatment, recycling technology for plastics, the dominating material in the largest waste stream (packaging) has been very basic. Diverting (packaging) waste away from landfill to incineration and recycling has been the alternative chosen to extend the usage of landfill until other alternatives have been developed. New incineration and recycling plants have required significant investments, which would result in increased local taxes, a step politicians did not want to take. That has been the time when the concept of ‘Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)’ moved out of academic circles and into the political discussion. EPR is an extension of the ‚polluter pays principle’, considering the producer to be responsible for the environmental impact throughout its lifetime, even if the product is sold and in the hands of a different person/legal entity who makes decisions regarding the use of the product independent from the producer. While EPR is covering in principle the entire life cycle of a product, it has been mainly applied for waste legislation. The first country using EPR as a basis for legislation has been Germany, whose ‘Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetz’ is based on the EPR principle.
| Copyright: | © Institut für Abfall- und Kreislaufwirtschaft - TU Dresden |
| Quelle: | 20 Jahre Abfallwirtschaft, Herstellerverantwortung, Produktpolitik (September 2011) |
| Seiten: | 2 |
| Preis: | € 1,00 |
| Autor: | Klaus Hieronymi |
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Hochlauf der Wasserstoffwirtschaft
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Überblick über und Diskussion der Maßnahmen zum beschleunigten Ausbau
der Wasserstoffinfrastruktur in Deutschland
Die innerstaatliche Umsetzung des Pariser Klimaschutzübereinkommens
- ein Rechtsvergleich
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Like all public international law treaties, the Paris Climate Accords rely on national law for their implementation. The success of the agreement therefore depends, to a large extent, on the stepstaken or not taken by national governments and legislators as well as on the instruments and mechanisms chosen for this task. Against this background, the present article compares different approaches to the implementation of the Paris Agreement, using court decisions as a means to assess their (legal) effectiveness.
Klimaschutzrecht und Erzeugung erneuerbarer Energien in der Schweiz
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Verschachtelte Gesetzgebung unter politischer Ungewissheit