Product related solid waste analysis provides communities with reliable data for planing municipal solid waste reduction measurements
- EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH, Hamburg (Germany)
- Fachhochschule Nordostniedersachsen, Suderburg (Germany)
On behalf of the German waste management company Rethmann Entsorgungswirtschaft GmbH and Co. KG, EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH conducted a study for the minimization of municipal solid wastes in a typical rural county, Coesfeld (Germany). The main goal of the study was to answer the following question: Is it possible to implement a solid waste management concept in a typical rural county and to find suitable logistical, technical and organizational tools, thereby making incineration unnecessary? Furthermore the solid waste management concept has taken all technical and legal conditions into account, as recommended in Germany, and fulfills the requirement of leading solid wastes into technical or biological loops. The study is based on the new methodology of product related solid waste analysis. The study showed that a detailed solid waste avoidance plan can be developed which leads to a 90% reduction of municipal solid wastes until the year 2005. Following the results of the study a waste incineration plant has become unnecessary. Consequently the planning of a new waste incinerator was stopped. Thus, economical and ecological disadvantages could be avoided
- OSTI ID:
- 353664
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-970677--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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