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Questo Rapporto fornisce i risultati della sezione del Progetto IMPEL sulle discariche incentrata sull'attuazione da parte degli Stati membri dell'UE dell'art. 6 della Direttiva 1999/31/CE sulle discariche di rifiuti, al fine di indagare la situazione negli Stati membri per quanto riguarda la messa in discarica di rifiuti non trattati. È stato diffuso un sondaggio preliminare.

A crucial element in the transition to the Circular Economy are the innovations at production and recycling facilities that aim at resource efficiency, the prevention of waste and the use of production residues or materials recovered from waste as secondary raw materials.

As an inspection at a landfill has to cover different subjects. Based on IMPEL’s project on Landfills, the inspection team decided to choose certain subjects to focus on for this guidance, namely: (1) Criteria and procedures for the acceptance of waste.

In view of problematic waste streams worldwide, notably of electronic waste, end-of-life vehicles and their components from Europe to Africa, waste shipment experts nowadays agree on the necessity to target more effectively the sources of illegal waste streams and the “upstream” facilities where such waste is collected, stored and/or treated prior to export.