Waste Management : Europäische Konferenz Für Abfallbehandlung / European Conference on Waste Management / Conférence Européenne Sur La Gestion Des Déchets

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. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-2 Waste Management in the European Community....Pages 3-18 The Challenge of Recycling....Pages 19-24 Guidlines and Prospects for Community Research into the Recycling of Urban and Industrial Waste....Pages 25-34 EEC R & D Program for Paper and Board Recycling....Pages 35-44 Recycling Solid Urban Waste....Pages 45-51 Fence Sitting by Industry is Wasteful in the Long Run....Pages 53-63 Packaging — The Inter-Professional Position....Pages 65-74 Packaging....Pages 75-82 Toxic and Dangerous Waste in the ECC....Pages 83-96 Some Views on Industrial Waste....Pages 97-106 Waste Disposal by the Chemical Industry....Pages 107-116 The Use of Waste in Agriculture....Pages 117-132 Research on the Utilisation of Sewage Sludge in the European Communities....Pages 133-142 The Use of Waste in Agriculture....Pages 143-158 Energy from Municipal Waste in the European Community....Pages 159-170 Energy from Waste:....Pages 171-181 The Recovery of Energy from Waste: Research in Italy....Pages 183-193 The Politics of Waste Paper in the European Community....Pages 195-206 Waste Paper use in the Community as Seen by the Paper Industry....Pages 207-216 Structure of the Waste Paper Processing Industry in Western Europe....Pages 217-226 Other Wastes and Aspects of Waste-Disposal Policy in the European Economic Community....Pages 227-236 Re-Use of Demolition Rubble....Pages 237-247 Rubber Recycling by the European Reclaimers’ Association EURA....Pages 249-256 The Future — Where Do We Go from Here ?....Pages 257-267 Back Matter....Pages 269-277