Extended producer responsibility

About: Extended producer responsibility is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1120 publications have been published within this topic receiving 26805 citations. The topic is also known as: EPR.

Review of Recycling and Processing of Waste Electronic Equipment

Abstract: With the increase of the use of electrical and electronic products in our country, electrical products renewal speed, the life cycle of the electric and electrical products reduce greatly. Waste electronic equipment increased year by year. Over the past five years, the United States and a few European countries export a lot of waste electrical equipment exported to coastal areas in China. This makes the problem worse. China has become the world's second largest electronic waste produce countries, after the United States. Waste electronic equipment contains many toxic and harmful substances. If we are not handled properly, it will endanger health of human body and cause great pollution to the environment (1). The waste electronic equipment contains many recyclable things. Our science recycling of waste electronic equipment has good economic and social benefits. In this paper, we investigate and analysis based on processing status of China and abroad on waste electronic equipment. Then, we give waste electronic equipment processing and recycling instructional Suggestions in the future.

Legislation and quantity of construction waste in Slovenia and abroad

Abstract: Construction is activity whose by-products are large amounts of waste, called construction waste. In developed countries, construction waste represents about a quarter of all waste. Such amount of waste is mainly due to the size of products and diversity of types of waste that belong to a group of construction waste. In recent years there has been very extended thinking on environmental protection, which has prompted the development of legislation governing waste, more frequent and stronger but also control over waste management. The paper presents some of the countries and their legislative arrangements for the management of construction waste, as well as the results of the implementation of regulations. The Diploma thesis includes a practical example of extension to nursery school in Križe, in which is presented how construction waste should be handled. Finally, it also presents some propositions on how to make it possible to improve the management of construction waste in Slovenia.

Reconstruction of the waste management law based on welfare value

Abstract: To achieve the condition of society who live healthy and prosperous in the future, it will be necessary to have a healthy living environment. From the aspect of waste management, the healthy word would mean a condition that would be achieved if the waste can be managed well so that the living environment where human activity there will be clean (Permen PU number: 21 / PRT / M / 2006). Vision of the development of waste management systems of Departemen Pekerjaan Umum dan Perumahan is " Permukiman Sehat Yang Bersih Dari Sampah", it is reflects to achieve of a good condition and healthy environment. In general, according to the Peraturan Menteri PU nomor: 21/PRT/M/2006, the areas that get solid waste services will either be shown to have the following conditions: a.) The society has access to handle the waste that are producted from daily activities, either in living environment, commerce, offices, and other public places, b). The society has a clean living environment because the waste that are produced can be handled properly. c). The society are able to maintain their health because there is no waste that could potentially be material transmission of diseases such as diarrhea, typhoid, dysentery, and others; and environmental disturbances from pollution of air, water or soil. d.) The sociaty and the business / private sector have the opportunity to participate in waste management so as to obtain benefits for welfare. Until now, waste management paradigm used is: GATHERING-TAKING and REMOVING, and the mainstay of a city in resolving problems of waste is landfilling in TPA. The city manager is less likely to give serious attention to the TPA, so came the failure cases of TPA. The city manager seems to assume that their TPA can solve all waste problems, without having to give proportionate attention to these facilities. TPA can be time bomb for the city manager. To achieve optimal waste services, it's time for a paradigm change municipal waste management. Transformative paradigm is the concept of municipal waste management to prevent or minimize the generation of pollution and other negative impacts that are detrimental to society and the environment. According to Witoelar (2006: 2) takes pioneers to change the paradigm of waste management from the approach end of the pipe (end of pipes) that dispose of waste directly to TPA towards waste management with the principles of 3R is Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. In the case of this paradigm change is far behind the other countries. For example, according to Buclet and Olivier waste management paradigm change in most European countries has been started since 1970. The waste management policy emphasis on waste reduction at source, sorting and recycling. A very important starting point in this paradigm change is a change of policy toward the minimization of garbage at the source, rather than on disposal. According to Law No.18 of 2008 on Waste Management, there are two main groups of waste management are: a.) Reduction of waste (waste minimization) consisting of restrictions on the trash, reuse, and recycling, b) Waste management (waste handling ). This condition is emphasized that the main priorities that should be done by all parties is how to reduce waste as much as possible. Part of waste or residue from waste reduction activities remaining is then performed processing (treatment) and heaping (landrilling). Waste management is an important issue in the problems of city environment that is faced in line with population growth and an increase in construction activity. The increase in waste volume grows exponentially which has not been accompanied by an increase in local government revenue equivalent to the management of municipal solid waste (Puslitbang Permukiman, Bandung 2014). This relates to the increasingly difficult and expensive to get the location of the final disposal (TPA), also are located farther away has extended transport and increase the cost of transportation.

A systems approach to extended producer responsibility: Economic efficiency and environmental effectiveness for packaging in plastic industry in Norway

Abstract: This paper will, through a theoretical discussion of efficiency and effectiveness, present a model for a recovery system. The plastic packaging recovery system in Norway is described, and despite the lack of empirical data, the economic efficiency for the system will be shown and discussed, based on this model. A discussion will also been carried out on environmental effectiveness showing that the Norwegian plastic recovery system has to focus to a larger extend on the use of non-renewable resources and on the effects of loss of energy and materials to the recipients. In other words, it is strongly needed to analyse what is the optimum recovery ratio in an economic and environmental context. A positive element in the Norwegian system is, however, the focus on developing a market for the recovered materials.