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Waste Strategy 2005-08

Contents

Foreword

Guide to the Plan

1 Waste Strategy 2005-2008, focus areas

• 1.1 Loss of resources and environmental impacts from waste must be reduced
• 1.2 Growth in waste must be decoupled from economic growth
• 1.3 Improved cost-effectiveness of environmental policies - improved quality in waste management
• 1.4 Improved cost-effectiveness of environmental policies - an efficient waste management sector
• 1.5 How to achieve the Strategy aims
• 1.6 Cost of the Strategy initiatives

2 Focus on preventing loss of resources and environmental impact from waste

• 2.1 Volumes of waste and economic development
• 2.2 Prevention of waste
• 2.3 New indicators for loss of resources and environmental impact
  • 2.3.1 Definitions
  • 2.3.2 Materials and forms of treatment
  • 2.3.3 Indicators for resource savings
  • 2.3.4 Indicators for resource savings
  • 2.3.5 Indicators for landfill requirements
  • 2.3.6 Summary of the new indicators
  • 2.3.7 Conclusion

3 Initiatives

• 3.1 General focus areas
• 3.2 Sectors and fractions
• 3.3 Waste incineration plants
• 3.4 Building and construction
• 3.5 Landfill sites
• 3.6 Households
  • 3.6.1 Domestic waste
  • 3.6.2 Bulky waste
  • 3.6.3 Garden waste
• 3.7 Industry
• 3.8 Institutions, trade and offices
• 3.9 Power plants
• 3.10 Public wastewater treatment plants

Appendix A

• A.1 Instruments used in the Danish waste system
• A.2 EU waste regulation

Appendix B

• B.1 Developments in volumes of waste
• B.2 Statistical base
• B.3 Technological development in waste management
• B.4 Economic and environmental effects of waste treatment
• B.5 Experience from other countries in preventing waste

Appendix C

• C.1. Capacity - incineration plants
• C.2. Landfill capacity
• C.3. Capacity - hazardous waste

Appendix D

• D.1. Waste incineration plants
• D.2. Building and construction
• D.3. Landfills
• D.4. Households
• D.5. Industry
• D.6. Institutions, trade and offices
• D.7. Power plants
• D.8. Public wastewater treatment plants

Appendix E

• E 1 Animal waste including food waste from industrial kitchens
• E 2 Asphalt
• E 3 Lead batteries and accumulators
• E 4 Concrete
• E 5 End-of-life vehicles
• E 6 Tyres
• E 7 Waste electrical and electronic products
• E 8 Packaging waste
• E 9 Hazardous waste
• E 10 Glass
• E 11 Dredged material
• E 12 Ferrous packaging
• E 13 Soil
• E 14 Health-care risk waste
• E 15 Refrigeration equipment
• E 16 Mineral wool
• E 17 Organic domestic waste
• E 18 Organic waste from industry except animal waste and food waste from industrial kitchens
• E 19 Ozone-depleting substances in waste fractions
• E 20 Paper and cardboard
• E 21 PCBs and PCTs
• E 22 Plastic
• E 23 PVC
• E 24 Residues from biofuels
• E 25 Residues from waste incineration plants
• E 26 Residues from power plants fired by coal, oil or natural gas
• E 27 Beet soil
• E 28 Shredder waste
• E 29 Sludge from municipal wastewater treatment plants
• E 30 Used oil
• E 31 Foundry waste
• E 32 Tiles
• E 33 Wood

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