Proposals for targets and indicators for waste prevention in four waste streams

Watson, David; Milios, Leonidas; Bakas, Ioannis; Herczeg, Márton; Kjær, Birgitte; Tojo, Naoko

doi:10.6027/tn2013-533

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“…In accordance with the revised Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC), Member States must establish national waste prevention programs. The directive draws attention to key environmental impacts to account for products and materials from a life-cycle perspective, and to achieve a decoupling between economic growth and the environmental impacts associated with waste generation [11][12][13][14]. By the end of 2014, national or regional waste prevention programs had been developed in 27 of the 31 countries in the EU (28 EU member states and 3 European Table 1 Number of reviewed papers, methods, and waste types considered Regarding "methods" and "considered waste type", papers were counted more than once Free Trade Association countries) [15,16], and seven programs were first adopted during 2014 [17].…”

Section: Eu Countriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…C&D waste is often one of the top three priority waste-prevention areas because it is expected to significantly reduce life-cycle environmental impacts [12,13,23]. Several summary reports, guidelines, and reviews related to C&D waste management, best practices, and LCAs have been published [116][117][118][119][120][121][122][123].…”

Section: Construction and Demolition Wastementioning

confidence: 99%

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Waste prevention for sustainable resource and waste management

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Section: Eu Countriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Construction and Demolition Wastementioning

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Waste prevention for sustainable resource and waste management

Sakai

Yano

Hirai

et al. 2017

J Mater Cycles Waste Manag

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Waste prevention indicators and their implications from a life cycle perspective: a review

Yano

Sakai

2015

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The 3Rs (reduce, reuse, and recycle) approach to waste management has been established internationally as one of the fundamental concepts for a sustainable society. In particular, the ''reduce'' aspect, which is the highest priority and also refers to waste prevention, implies similar concepts and definitions among regions. To outline useful recent research findings related to waste prevention, this paper reviewed and discussed the current situation, including (1) definitions, (2) indicators, (3) policy and behavior, and (4) prevention effects from the life cycle perspective. It was found that although various waste prevention indicators have been proposed in the EU, Japan, and by international authorities, the indicators actually adopted in their policies are limited by some issues, for example, a lack of data availability. Food waste, C&D waste, and WEEE (e-waste) were identified as higher priorities for waste prevention. Some current challenges for promoting waste prevention are to (1) make the definition of waste types clearer; (2) develop a standardized, consistent monitoring method; (3) clarify the causal linkage between prevention effects and stakeholders' behavior, and (4) quantify the environmental effects of waste prevention. Each of these aspects is essential and will be useful when considering waste prevention indicators and targets.

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