Municipal Waste Management in Europe

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Nicolas Buclet, Olivier Godard

   Pages 1-4

3. Municipal waste management in Germany

   • Lilo Fischer, Ulrich Petschow

   Pages 5-62

4. Waste management in the Netherlands

   • Patrick Kalders, Wim Hafkamp

   Pages 63-86

5. Municipal waste management in France

   • N. Buclet, C. Defeuilley, S. Lupton

   Pages 87-119

6. Municipal waste management in Italy

   • Paolo Bertossi, Antonio Kaulard, Antonio Massarutto

   Pages 121-169

7. Municipal solid waste management in Greece

   • A. D. Andreadakis, Y. Razis, K. Hadjibiros, D. G. Christoulas

   Pages 171-202

8. Municipal waste management in Europe: a comparison of national regimes

   • N. Buclet, O. Godard

   Pages 203-224

9. Back Matter

   Pages 225-233

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Nicolas Buclet and Olivier Godard In terms of economic scale, waste management is one of the two most important environmentally oriented sectors. 1 It stands at the cross-roads in the material organization of society, resource management, changing lifestyles and consumption patterns, and ecological issues. For many years waste management has been perceived as aresources and health issue, confined mainly to dense urban areas, and not an environmental issue. In contemporary affiuent societies, however, the scale reached by waste flows, the inheritance of accumulated deposits in soils from the waste of previous generations and increasing levels of public concern about environmental proteetion and quality of life have all conspired to impose a fresh look at what waste really implies for a modern society. We are obliged to focus our attention on such questions as how the circulation of matter is at present organized by society and can be modified and controlled if economic development is to become more environmentally sustainable. This is the period we live in. Significant changes in waste management in European countries have been introduced during the last decade or so. To some extent the transition between traditional regimes mainly based on local disposal and new regimes based on a revised organisation of flows of waste matter is still in the making, involving new attitudes, new activities, new technologies and new incentives, reducing the pressure on virgin natural resources and eliminating the huge dissipation of various pollutants into the environment.

• European Union (EU)
• Institution
• development
• municipal waste management
• organization
• waste management

• Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement, Nogent sur Marne, France

  Nicolas Buclet

• Laboratoire d’Econométrie, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France

  Olivier Godard

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