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Report: Treatment of commercial, construction and demolition waste in North Rhine-Westphalia: policy-making and operation options

Vassilios Karavezyris

Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Division WA II 1. Principal Matters of Waste Management, Transboundary Movement of Wastes, Bonn, Germany, vassilios.karavezyris{at}bmu.bund.de

This paper summarizes a long-term-investigation of the mechanical treatment of commercial, construction and demolition waste materials in North Rhine-Westphalia in the light of applied operation standards and a disposal ban on untreated waste. It is shown how both the allocation of output materials from mechanical treatment plants and the subsequent treatment channels have changed since enforcement of the ban in 2005. Based on the findings of the investigation, two waste management scenarios offering alternative policies have been defined and are discussed. It is suggested that consistent enforcement of the ban affects both the diversion of waste to incineration and the recovery of materials on a regional scale. On the other hand, potential energy recovery may be fully exploited only insofar as operators of mechanical treatment plants concentrate their business on the production of refuse-derived fuel.

Key Words: Commercial wastes • disposal ban • mechanical waste treatment • North-Rhine Westphalia • wmr 963-5

Waste Management & Research, Vol. 25, No. 2, 183-189 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X07075249
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