Commercial and Industrial Waste and Selected Wasteflows

Contents

Preface

1 Summary

2 Background
2.1 Waste - efforts to date
2.2 Commercial and industrial waste - need for intensified efforts
2.3 The environmental space

3 Four important challenges for commercial and industrial waste
3.1 Large amounts of waste
3.2 Recycling
3.3 Hazardous waste
3.4 Environmental contaminants

4 Proposals for initiatives, goals and results
4.1 Seven areas for efforts
4.1.1 Efforts in sectors with hazardous and environmentally contaminants
4.1.2 National requirements for managing environmental contaminants
4.1.3 Better application of taxes and charges on waste
4.1.4 More active utilisation of Part 5 approval, green accounting, and quality management
4.1.5 Better opportunities to sell waste - establishment of a waste exchange
4.1.6 Provision for support for the development of recovery technologies
4.1.7 Increased recycling of waste suitable for incineration
4.2 Expected results from special initiatives