Regenerative Energie
The state of the art ... or should it be called: the art of storage? To put it more precisely: where are we with respect to landfilling, recycling, and thermal treatment? What is the European Union‘s position 15 years after a political framework was put in place to prevent municipal organic waste from being landfilled? Are any windows of opportunity still open to the waste management market - or will we soon reach a saturation phase brought about by the successful implementation of the relevant Directives?
In 1999 the European Union adopted the Landfill Directive aimed at preventing combustible waste from being landfilled. Landfilling municipal household waste was to be reduced to 75 percent of the value of the reference year - 1995 - by 2006 and to fifty percent by 2009. The third phase to be implemented by 2016 sets out a reduction down to 35 percent. The practical implementation of the Directive is up to individual Member States, thereby facilitating individual solutions while at the same time requiring industry to make the necessary adjustments.
To promote the efficiency concept regarding recovery of various waste types, the Waste Framework Directive was issued - last revised in 2008. It defined types of waste and the treatment steps required for each type. Consequently, it also lays down a hierarchy outlining which treatment processes are preferable for a particular waste stream.
Both Directives set the framework for the European market to a large extent. On the one hand, the quantity of the waste to be treated encompassing the entire market volume is defined. On the other hand, an attempt has been made to define the quality of the treatment processes, which are then evaluated as adequate or insufficient with respect to the materials to be treated. The European market potential of individual industrial sectors is determined by these two factors. This potential cannot be expressed as a general value as it is dependent on individual implementation in terms of the respective national legislation.
| Copyright: | © Thomé-Kozmiensky Verlag GmbH |
| Quelle: | Waste Management, Volume 4 (November 2014) |
| Seiten: | 13 |
| Preis: | € 0,00 |
| Autor: | Dipl.-Ing. Ulrich Martin |
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