Waste Management: Europäische Konferenz für Abfallbehandlung / European Conference on Waste Management / Conférence Européenne sur la Gestion des Déchets

278 Pages·1981·10.361 MB·English

by  Jeremy Woolfe (auth.), Jeremy Woolfe (eds.)

Waste Management
Kommission der Europaischen Gemeinschaften
Commission of the European Communities
Commission des Communautes Europeennes
WASTE MANAGEMENT
Europaische Konferenz fi.ir Abfallbehandlung
European Conference on Waste Management
Conference Europeenne sur la Gestion des Dechets
Wembley, England, June 17-19, 1980
edited by
JEREMY WOOLFE
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
European conference on Waste Management (1980: Wembley, London, England)
Waste Mangement,
At head of title: Commission of the European Communities. Kommission
der Europiiischen Gemeinschaften. Commission des Communautes Europeennes.
1. Refuse and refuse disposal-Congresses. 2. Factory and trade
waste-Congresses. I. Woolfe, 1. (Jeremy) II. Commission of the European
Communities. III. Title.
TD785.E89 1980 363.7'28 81-8681
ISBN 978-94-010-9944-8 ISBN 978-94-010-9942-4 (eBook) AACR2
DOI 10.1007/978-94-010-9942-4
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Commission of the European Communities
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C 0 N T E N T S
Note to readers ix
Introduction
Opening Addresses
Waste Management in the European Community
by Michel Carpentier 3
The Challenge of Recycling
by Tom King 19
Research in the Community
Chairman Dr H. Ott
Guidelines and Prospects for Community Research
into the Recycling of Urban and Industrial Waste
by Dr Matteo Donato
& Dr Gian L. Ferrero 25
EEC R&D Program for Paper and Board Recycling
by Ing Edmund Fassotte 35
Recycling Solid Urban Waste
by Dr Carlo Noto La Diega 45
Packaging
Chairman Mrs Jacqueline Aloisi de Larderel
Fence Sitting by Industry is Wasteful in the Long Run
by Dr Lisa Pavan 53
Packaging - The Inter-Professional Position
by Dr Werner Hoffmann 65
Packaging
by Michel de Grave 75
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Hazardous Waste
Chai~an Dr Bernd Wolbeck
Toxic and Dangerous Waste in the EEC
by Dr Benno W.K. Risch 83
Some Views on Industrial Waste
by Yvan Cheret 97
Waste disposal by the Chemical Industry
by Dr James T. Farqhar 107
Utilisation of Waste in Agriculture
Chairman Dr Ing P. Weber
The Use of Waste in Agriculture
by Mr Leon Klein 117
Research on the Utilisation of Sewage Sludge
in the European Communities
by Dr H. Ott
& P. L'Hermite 133
The Use of Waste in Agriculture
by Jean-Paul Vellaud 143
Energy from Waste
Chairman Mr John K. Smout
Energy from Municipal Waste in the
European Community
by Leopold Van Wambeke 159
European Incinerating Technology
by Mogens Rasmussen 171
The Recovery of Energy from Waste: Research in Italy
by Prof. Giancarlo Chiesa 183
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Waste Paper
Chairman Dr Leslie 0. Hopkins
The Politics of Waste Paper in the European Community
by Mr Leon Klein 195
Waste Paper Use in the Community as seen by
the Paper Industry
by Dr George Holzhey 207
Structure of the Waste Paper Processing
Industry in Western Europe
by Mr Ben van der Weerden 217
Miscellaneous Wastes Including Demolition Waste & Rubber
Chairman Dr J.H. Erasmus
Other Wastes and Aspects of Waste-Disposal
Policy in the European Economic Community
by Dr Benne W.K. Risch 227
Re-use of Demolition Rubble
by Carlo de Pauw 237
Rubber Recycling by the
Euro"pean Reclaimers·' association EURA
by Hubertus P.J. Kreemers 249
The Future - Where Do We Go From Here?
Chairman Dr Robert L.P. Berry
Speaker Mr Peter Menke-Gluckert 257
Final Statement 269
Report on Debate 270
Titles of Speakers and Chairmen 275
Addendum- EEC Legislation on Waste Management 277
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NOTE TO READERS
WASTE MANAGEMENT AND RECYCLING, WHICH AS ASPECTS
OF THE "ENVIRONMENT" STARTED TO BECOME SERIOUS
POLITICAL ISSUES IN THE EARLY 1970s, COULD BY THE
80s HAVE BEEN GENTLY FADING AWAY,
HOWEVER IN EUROPE THE MOVEMENT IS GAINING GROUND,
NOTABLY IN THE EEC BECAUSE OF ITS HEAVY DEPENDENCE
ON IMPORTED COMMODITIES,
CONSIDERABLE DRIVE IS BEING GIVEN BY THE COMMISSION
OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, WHICH IN THE ENVIRON
MENT FIELD IN GENERAL HAS BEEN BEHIND 50 RELEVANT
DIRECTIVES, DECISIONS OR RECOMMENDATIONS INSTIGATING
A NUMBER OF BINDING RULES FOR INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES,
THESE TOGETHER FORM THE BEGINNINGS OF A COHERENT
POLICY
I
IT WAS IN THIS OVERALL CONTEXT THAT THE EUROPEAN
CoNFERENCE ON WASTE MANAGEMENT WAS SPONSORED BY THE
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND ORGANISED BY THE BRITISH
GOVERNMENT, ITS SUCCESS IS INDICATED BY THE ATTENDANCE
OF NEARLY 400 PEOPLE FROM ACROSS EUROPE,
FoR THE PURPOSE OF THIS PUBLICATION THE TEXTS OF THE
PAPERS DELIVERED AT THE CoNFERENCE HAVE BEEN EDITED
AND MANY HAVE BEEN REDUCED IN LENGTH, EVERY CARE
HAS BEEN TAKEN IN PRESERVING AS MUCH OF THE ORIGINAL
THOUGHT OF THE SPEAKERS AS POSSIBLE BUT NO
RESPONSIBILITY lS TAKEN FOR ANY INADVERTENT
INACCURACY,
JrJ - 1980
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INTRODUCTION
The EEC's heavy dependence on imported raw materials, combined with
insufficient priority given to recuperative technologies, provided twin
incentives to convene the European Conference on Waste Management.
The conference was also held in answer to a call for a serious interna
tional forum to enable high calibre spokesmen to express their views on a
diversity of vital interests.
The ambitious objective was that such a melting pot would smooth the road
to cohesive policies and purposeful action, especially in the field of
waste recycling.
Among the speakers there were several specialists ready to outline the
state of the art of a variety of technical subjects. This range included
aspects of packaging, hazardous waste, the utilisation of waste in agri
culture, energy from waste, and waste paper.
~aper was to play a particularly serious role, because pulp and paper is
the largest external commodity need by the EEC countries after oil.
Speakers were to be drawn from all parts of the EEC, in the expectation
that country-to-country comparisons would stimulate progress in specific
areas. This hope was frequently realised.
Well represented was the Environment and Consumer Protection Department
of the Commission itself. It is this department that has been quietly
setting the beginnings of a coherent policy for waste management for
throughout the 250 million population Community for the past seven years.
Sokesmen were also to be drawn from sections likely to have quite
opposing views. Represented at the conference were to be local author
ities and national government departments, both conscious of their respon
sibility to weigh the expenditure of their tax payers' money against the
long-term ecological interest of humanity.
There were also to be outspoken members of ecological groups, with stoutly
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held philanthropic views, and on the other hand, members of several major
industries, with financial responsibility for the interests of their
shareholders and their employees to bear in mind.
All were ready to contribute their point of view. All had perfectly
valid statements to make. All were qualified to express themselves
eloquently.
In addition,and very much to the point, all were ready to listen to each
other ••. and to attempt to rationalise and seek harmony from what could
have otherwise been a boiling sea of useless confusion.
In the event, as the concluding conference debate reported at the end of
this publication reveals, the final results were some refreshingly clear
indications of feasible policy lines to be advocated in the field of
waste management.
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