Orientações e ferramentas (4)

O presente relatório apresenta os resultados da secção do projeto IMPEL Landfill centrada na aplicação pelos Estados-Membros da UE do artigo 6º da Diretiva 1999/31/CE relativa à deposição de resíduos em aterros, a fim de investigar a situação nos Estados-Membros no que diz respeito à deposição de resíduos não tratados em aterros. Foi distribuído um inquérito preliminar.

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.