EU waste regulation in the context of the circular economy: peculiarities of interaction

Stankevičius, Andrius; Novikovas, Andrejus; Bakaveckas, Audrius; Petryshyn, Oleksandr V.

doi:10.9770/jesi.2020.8.2(32)

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“…Today, individual developed nations and international organisations, such as the EU and the United Nations General Assembly, are attaching growing attention to issues concerning environmental protection from human activities (Monni, Iorio, Realini, 2018;Moumen et al 2019;Stankevičius et al, 2020;Antonioli, Chioatto & Mazzanti, 2022;Nassar, Strielkowski, 2022). This interest is rooted in the truism that wise management of water resources and the provision of infrastructure for their post-use recovery and purification for sanitary and industrial purposes is a fundamental condition for the survival of humanity and the improvement of the quality of life of the people of the world.…”

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Public-Private Partnership in the Context of Sustainable Development on the Example of the Water and Wastewater Sector

Łakomy-Zinowik¹

2022

Journal of Security and Sustainability Issues

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the implementation of investments in the water and sewage sector in Poland and other European countries using the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) formula. The paper identifies the strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats arising from the use of this formula for local government public tasks for the delivery and treatment of domestic wastewater, in the context of EU legislation. It also examines the validity of the use of PPP in the context of the implementation of the principle of sustainable development in water management. PPPs are commonly used to deliver strategic public services under financial limitations. Countries such as the United Kingdom and Ireland, based on years of experience and good practices, are effectively implementing PPP projects, including those in the water and sewerage sector. The provision of treated drinking water and the treatment of municipal wastewater is a fundamental task ensuring an adequate quality of life for people by maintaining public health at an appropriate level. The fact that water and sanitation infrastructure and service provision in this sector is expensive, both at the construction and operational stages, has led countries at different levels of development to turn to public-private partnerships. Properly managed PPP projects secure the interests of both the private and public partner and the end user of the services. The analysis of data and examples of European PPPs in the water and wastewater sector shows that PPPs have been successful for most public entities that have chosen them. Good practices from Scotland, Ireland and Poland, as well as projects that have experienced difficulties, show that stable and friendly legislation, thorough pre-feasibility studies and an appropriate allocation of risk make PPPs successful. In the context of the conducted analysis, PPP is a tool enabling the realization of tasks in the water and sewage sector, where the public party’s budget possibilities are limited. Moreover, PPP is a component of the realization of the sustainable development principle. The idea that the use of natural resources, including water, which is fundamental to the biological and cultural needs of humankind, should be met in such a way as to save them for future generations, is realized in PPP projects. This paper demonstrates that the use of financial assembly opportunities in PPPs makes it possible to significantly intensify the construction of new and upgrading of existing water and wastewater infrastructure. It contributes to the protection of aquatic ecosystems and securing public health associated with living in direct proximity to surface water and discharging wastewater without affecting the natural environment and human habitats.

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Public-Private Partnership in the Context of Sustainable Development on the Example of the Water and Wastewater Sector

Łakomy-Zinowik¹

2022

Journal of Security and Sustainability Issues

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“…The new version of the Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC established new definitions (municipal waste) [3] related to the concept of waste, as well as improving existing ones (waste management). It should be noted that the basic definition of waste remains unchanged [44].…”

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Municipal waste management performance: a focus on Slovakia and its LAU-1 districts

Marišová,

Fandel

2024

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In this paper, we analyse the changes made to the basic EU directive on waste and assess its impact on the waste legislation of EU members. We then examine the Slovak waste strategies/programs that have implemented the EU directive on waste, namely the Waste Prevention Program, the Waste Management Program, and the Envirostrategy 2030. Based on EU waste legislation, the Environmental Strategy 2030 sets the waste treatment aims for Slovakia until 2030. However, it is questionable whether Slovakia will achieve the set goals. Our research indicates that as of 2021, Slovakia’s rate of waste incineration with energy recovery and landfilling rate of municipal waste are below the EU average, while the recycling rate, both for materials and composting and digestion, is higher. In our quantitative analysis, we examine the progress of waste management performance in Slovakia from 2017 to 2021, focusing on the LAU-1 districts. We estimate composite efficiency indicators using the techniques of Data Envelopment Analysis and Malmquist Indices. In accordance with the hierarchy of waste treatment methods, the applied models consider desirable waste operations variables (recycling and incineration with energy recovery) and undesirable waste operation variables (landfilling). Our results reveal significant variations in efficiency across the LAU-1 districts. The average technical efficiency of the 72 districts has improved from 0.714 in 2017 to 0.852 in 2021, indicating that the performance of districts is generally improving and catching up with the best-performing districts. The total performance, as measured by the Malmquist index, has improved by 45.5 %. Districts with access to waste incineration facilities with energy recovery have exhibited higher efficiency scores, benefitting from this advantage.

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“…The EU is creating legislative incentives for the EU states and promoting industrial cooperation to circulate material from one industrial sector to another. Circular economy is presented as an emerging sustainable development strategy for the EU (Siekelova et al 2020;Tamulevičienė & Androniceanu, 2020;Mazzoni, 2020;Nikanorova & Stankevičienė, 2020;Stankevičius et al, 2020).…”

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Empirical Evidence on Circular Economy and Economic Development in Europe: A Panel Approach

Georgescu

Kinnunen

Androniceanu

2022

Journal of Business Economics and Management

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Sustainable economic growth is desired to be achieved by governments targeting economic, social, and environmental benefits. The idea of circular economy model is to consider feedback effects from proper waste management instead of one-way effects typical with the classical linear model. Several sectors of society contribute to circular economy and its monetary and environmental outputs in a sustainable way. The aim of this paper is to analyze the dependencies and causalities of circular economy and economic developments in the EU. The research objectives include testing (i) whether research and development (R&D) expenditure, GDP per capita and generation of municipal waste per capita influence the recycling rate of municipal waste, and (ii) whether R&D expenditure, generation of municipal waste per capita and the recycling rate of municipal waste influence the GDP per capita. The relevant indicators are obtained from Eurostat. The research methods of fixed effects and Tobit approach are used to study the statistical relevance of the two models. The pairwise causality of variables is tested by Dumitrescu–Hurlin causality test. One result of the study is that technology development, by a decreasing life of products, leads to an increase of waste generation. Therefore, environmentally friendly technologies should be produced.

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EU waste regulation in the context of the circular economy: peculiarities of interaction

Cited by 18 publications

References 7 publications

Public-Private Partnership in the Context of Sustainable Development on the Example of the Water and Wastewater Sector

Public-Private Partnership in the Context of Sustainable Development on the Example of the Water and Wastewater Sector

Municipal waste management performance: a focus on Slovakia and its LAU-1 districts

Empirical Evidence on Circular Economy and Economic Development in Europe: A Panel Approach

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