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Landfill capacity for municipal waste: remaining years at current landfill rate

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Figure Created 12 Nov 2009 Published 12 Nov 2009 Last modified 29 Nov 2012

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Topics: Resource efficiency and waste ,

The graph shows how many years the country/region can continue to landfill municipal waste if the share of waste landfilled remains the same as in the year shown in brackets.

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Last upload:: 16 Jun 2009
Geographic coverage:: Belgium , Finland , Germany , Hungary
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Processors:: EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION (ETC/SCP)
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Diverting waste from landfill - Effectiveness of waste-management policies in the European Union

Diverting waste from landfill - Effectiveness of waste-management policies in the European Union Issued in 1999, the Landfill Directive marked a decisive shift from landfill towards the EU's new waste hierarchy, which prioritises waste prevention, followed by re-use, recycling and recovery, and seeks to avoid landfilling wherever feasible. The Landfill Directive set targets for progressively reducing the amount of biodegradable municipal waste landfilled in the period to 2016. A decade on from the Landfill Directive's enactment seems a fitting time to review progress and extract key lessons for policy-makers in Europe and elsewhere. Through individual and comparative analyses of waste management in five countries and one sub-national region (Estonia, Finland, the Flemish Region of Belgium, Germany, Hungary and Italy), as well as an econometric analysis of the EU–25 Member States, this report seeks to answer a number of important questions, including: To what extent was waste management practice changed in the last decade? How much of the change was due to the Landfill Directive (and other EU instruments)? What measures and institutional arrangements did countries introduce? Which measures and arrangements proved most effective in different national and regional contexts?

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