2 -LEGISLATION

Basic structure of the EU’s legislative

Basic structure of the EU’s legislative

Specific waste streams, Supervision and monitoring, Treatment and disposal installations

Resource efficient Europe main points

• Boost economy while reducing resource use

• New opportunities for growth

• Security of essential resources

• Limit impacts of resource use

7th Environment Action Programme

• until 2020

• Protect natural capital, innovation low-carbon growth

8th Environment Action Programme

• greenhouse gas neutral by 2050

• Circular economy

• Zero pollution

• Recude environmental pressures

Waste framework directive 2008/98/EC

• holders of waste must take care of disposing of it according to the directive

• Priority of 5 stage hierrarchy

Waste hierrarchy

Prevention, Reuse, recycling, recovery, disposal

Circular economy legislation

• Single use plastic ban

• Green deal

• Amendment of six directives

• Circular economy

WEEE

Waste Electical and Electronic equipment

End of life vehicles on batteries and WEEE

2018/849/EU

Landfill of waste directive

2018/850/EU

Directive on packaging and packaging waste

2018/852/EU

Directive 2019/904/Eu

Reduce impacts of ID products on the environment

Products with existing alternatives

Prohibited since July 2021

Products without existing alternatives

Prevent, Educate, better waste management

Sewage sludge in agriculture

Basically prohibits you to use untreated sludge in agri, and strict chemical analysis

Disposal of PCB/PCTs

control management of PCBs

How much of the PCBs have escaped into the environement from the time of production 1959/1984?

65%

Ladfill of waste

Basically about how and what to put in landfills, different objectives for years, the longer time, the less municipal waste in landfills and more recycling of the municipal waste

Shipments of waste

Mainly for hazardous waste, and to make sure that where you are sipping the waste will take care of it properly

Hazardous waste shipment

You are only allowed to ship hazardous waste into other EU countries

Industrial emissions directive

Taking care of the emissions from industried and preventing them