Production and Consumption Signals

Introduction

The EEA zero pollution monitoring assessment is mainly based on formal, official EU-wide data sets and indicators. To broaden the assessment, other sources of information are also examined. These sources include findings from research, country-level information and other information that may help highlight pollution issues that are insufficiently addressed by legislative or other reporting. This section of the zero pollution monitoring assessment presents a series of short case studies that highlight some of these additional sources of information. We refer to these as ‘Signals’.

The Signals below align with the subsections of the production and consumption section of the assessment and deal with extraction, production, consumption and waste management.

A brief assessment on key knowledge gaps for each of these topic areas is also presented (Figure 1).

Navigate here on the 4 signals categories:

Resource extraction

1. Heavy metal emissions to water from the extractive sector
2. Raw material imports and country performance
3. Hotspot analysis tool for sustainable production and consumption
4. Statistics on oil spills

Production

1. Reducing pollution from Europe’s industrial facilities using best available techniques and the EU Industrial Emissions Portal
2. Sulphur oxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from shipping
3. Safe and sustainable by design

Consumption

1. EU consumption and safe operating space
2. Planetary boundaries and novel entities

 Waste

1. Waste shipments
2. Industrial symbiosis as a way to reduce waste generation

Figure 1. Knowledge gaps — zero pollution and production and consumption