Moving up the waste hierarchy is a key priority for UK waste policy. Waste prevention requires policy interventions to promote reuse. The term ‘reuse exchange’ has been adopted by UK policy makers to describe a variety of second-hand trading outlets including car boot sales, charity shops and...
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Growing populations and consumption drive the challenges of solid waste management (SWM); globalization of transport, food production, and trade, including waste trading, distributes risks worldwide. Using waste hierarchy (WH; reduce, reuse, and recycle) and circular economy (CE) concepts, we ...
Energy Recovery (waste to energy) The penultimate step of the waste hierarchy pyramid is energy recovery from combustion. “Waste-to-energy” generates energy from the treatment of waste, or the processing of waste into a fuel source. Methane, ethane or ethanol are common outputs of this proces...
https://www.green-alliance.org.uk/resources/Fixing_the_system.pdf Viewed 7/7/20 Google Scholar Gregson et al., 2013 N. Gregson, M. Crang, J. Laws, T. Fleetwood, H. Holmes Moving up the waste hierarchy: car boot sales, reuse exchange and the challenges of consumer culture to waste ...
Based on the presumed impact and the risk of release and spread of pollutants and taking into account Directive 2008/98/EC on the waste hierarchy, the facilities were ranked with a score from 1 to 5. The highest score was assigned to landfills due to: excessive land consumption; significant...
The goal of the National Waste Management Policy 2020 is to support the waste hierarchy and the ideals of the circular economy, thus obtaining both socio-economic gains (job creation) and reducing harmful environmental impacts. The policy offers government technical interventions for the waste sector...
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The quantitative model compares different food waste management options, and relevant policies in Bristol, UK (2018–2030). Unlike the guidance of the traditional waste hierarchy framework, our findings show that the preferability of each option can vary for each sector within the supply chain and...
Following the waste hierarchy, material recycling is the next best option and is realistic for wool because mechanically recycled fibres have value although they are usually downcycled (Russell et al., 2016). In the present study, there was no transfer of environmental impacts between the primary...