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Título: | Waste management in Portugal and Europe: an overview of the past, present and future |
Autor(es): | Ribeiro, André Castro, F. Macedo, Maria Carvalho, Joana |
Palavras-chave: | Waste management PERSU I PERSU II Municipal Wastes (MW) |
Data: | Out-2011 |
Editora: | Centro para a Valorização de Resíduos (CVR) |
Resumo(s): | As word society has grown exponentially it was created more and more wastes. Each year European Union throws away 3 billion tons of waste, and some 90 million tons of that are hazardous. It is clear that treating and disposing of all this material - without harming the environment becomes a major trouble. In the early years 90 the amount of waste generated in Europe increased by 10%. Most of that was thrown away in incinerators, or dumped into landfill creating environmental damage. Landfill disposal not only takes valuable land space but also causes air, water and soil pollution, discharging carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) into the atmosphere and chemicals and pesticides into the earth and groundwater. This situation is harmful to human health as well as to plants and animals. These events triggered urgency for a responsibility and appropriate legislation for correct waste management. EU and Portuguese policy main objective in the waste management are prevent and reduce waste production, and reduce their toxicity, through the reuse and modification of production processes, adopting cleaner technologies. Waste management must also avoid or at least reduce its risk to human health and to environment. In Portugal, wastes sector was suffered a revolution on the last years, due to the appearance of the Strategic Plan for Solid Waste I (PERSU I) in 1997 and by the constant pressure from the EU for their state members and waste producers. In December 2006 was created the PERSU II to correct all mistakes made in the previous plan. However soon realized that PERSU II had very ambitious goals and so unattainable that triggered the need to reformulate these objectives. The aim of this overview in waste management was to follow the goals outlined in PERSU II, identifying the progress of each operational system over the years. It was also the target compare those results to European statistics tracing possible ways to permit compliance with EU objectives in future. |
Tipo: | Artigo em ata de conferência |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/1822/14995 |
ISBN: | 978-989-97429-1-8 |
Versão da editora: | www.cvresiduos.pt/pdf/BookofProceedings.pdf |
Arbitragem científica: | yes |
Acesso: | Acesso aberto |
Aparece nas coleções: | DEM - Publicações em actas de encontros científicos / Papers in conference proceedings |
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WASTE MANAGEMENT IN PORTUGAL AND EUROPE – AN OVERVIEW OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.pdf | Article | 383,21 kB | Adobe PDF | Ver/Abrir |