The circular economy package of the European Union: are new paths being taken or is it an old story?

Bartl, Andreas

doi:10.31025/2611-4135/2020.13991

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“…For example, the use of sec-ondary aggregates in road construction has been hindered by perceived performance concerns and additional costs (Huang et al, 2007). In light of this, the CEP and CEAP addressed the further development of secondary materials markets and the strengthening of quality standards such as End of Waste (EoW) criteria (Bartl, 2015(Bartl, , 2020EC, 2015bEC, , 2020.…”

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Recovery and Utilisation of Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Bottom Ash: Implications for European Waste Management Strategy

Fletcher

Dunk

2023

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Over the last two decades, the stated intent of European waste management strategy has evolved from a specific focus on landfill diversion to enabling the transition to a circular economy.. Widespread introduction of source-segregation alongside deployment of material recovery technologies have improved MSW management practices across Europe. However, with diminishing returns it has become more difficult to achieve further landfill diversion through increased recycling alone, and incineration rates (across the EU-27 as a whole) have continued to increase. The advantages of incineration include the ability to harness the energy content of the waste alongside a sizeable reduction in mass and volume. However, the remaining solid residues, the most substantial being incinerator bottom ash, present a management issue. Exploring the role of incineration and the utilisation of incineration bottom ash, this paper highlights the potential risks of lock-in in the context of evolving waste policy. A simple thought experiment suggests that while increased use of incineration may help member states achieve 2035 landfill diversion targets, it would also carry a substantive risk of placing the 2035 recycling target out of reach. To address this, a long-term vision concerning the future of incineration is required, where it is recommended that policy which focuses on landfill diversion and the recycling of residual wastes should be strengthened through mechanisms that gradually phase out incineration and distinguish between open and closed-loop recycling.

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Section: Evolution Of European Waste Strategymentioning

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Recovery and Utilisation of Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Bottom Ash: Implications for European Waste Management Strategy

Fletcher

Dunk

2023

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“…In general, European local authorities have not been able to substantially reduce the amount of waste they manage (Domingo & Melchor, 2022). Bartl (2020) emphasizes that it is impressive that although the core of the European CE package (European Commission, 2022) addresses the minimization of the waste amount based on some ideas that are more than four decades old, there are still no adequate measures nowadays to get WP off the ground.…”

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Analyzing waste prevention behaviors by applying an ABMS framework

Rodrigues

Bortoleto

2022

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Nature and society have undergone fast and intense changes in the last decades. Consumption is expanding at a hyperbolic rate. Technological innovation has bypassed some environmental problems, but it is hardly sufficient to solve them. As a result, understanding the factors related to people's behavior is imperative when finding a novel approach for intervention policies that can effectively alleviate environmental impacts caused by human activities. A promising alternative to designing waste prevention (WP) policies is to develop strategies to endure behavioral change through collective actions. This paper briefly reviews some WP status worldwide and highlights the possibility of using agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) to plan WP policies and programs. ABMS enables a more in-depth analysis since experiments with a large sample in real situations are financial, temporal, and social cost-demanding. Preliminary results show an influence of the social norm on the adoption of reusable bags by individuals with medium and lower pro-environmental motivations. Understanding these dynamics relations in which WP policy is embedded makes it possible to forecast future waste generation and composition scenarios. Also, a framework for planning WP with ABMS is proposed.

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“…It surprisingly is a Chinese invention from the early 2000s. First identified in the Chinese scientific literature in 2003 (Bartl, 2019), the principle of circular economy was firstly adopted at the regulatory and legislative level by China. Its national strategy for the management of its resources and waste is based on this notion.…”

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Energy, a major oversight in the Circular Economy and Resource management?

Cord'Homme

2021

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The circular economy package of the European Union: are new paths being taken or is it an old story?

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

Recovery and Utilisation of Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Bottom Ash: Implications for European Waste Management Strategy

Recovery and Utilisation of Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Bottom Ash: Implications for European Waste Management Strategy

Analyzing waste prevention behaviors by applying an ABMS framework

Energy, a major oversight in the Circular Economy and Resource management?

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