Best Practice Municipal Waste Management : information pool on approaches towards a sustainable design of municipal waste management and supporting technologies and equipment / by Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h. c. Bernd Bilitewski (INTECUS Dresden GmbH, Dresden), Dipl. -Ing. Jörg Wagner (INTECUS Dresden GmbH, Dresden), Dipl. -Ing. Jan Reichenbach ppa. (INTECUS Dresden GmbH, Dresden) ; on behalf of the German Environment Agency ; study performed by: INTECUS Dresden GmbH - Abfallwirtschaft und umweltintegratives Management ; edited by: Section III 2.4 Waste Technology, Waste Technology Transfer Ralf Menzel

Abstract

The need to curb natural resources depletion and climate change and secure a healthy living space for an ever growing human society has become a global challenge which increases the demand to minimise waste generation and manage arising wastes effectively and sustainably on a worldwide scale. This task applies to all countries independently from their status of development. Many countries are therefore faced with the necessity to initiate a process of transformation from the conventional scheme of waste disposal through simple dumping or landfilling towards the gradual implementation of a closed loop management of their wastes.