From collision to collaboration – Integrating informal recyclers and re-use operators in Europe: A review
| Autor: | Rachel Savain, Jelena Nesić, Portia Sinnott, Flaviu Pop, Flaviu Petean, Pietro Luppi, Anne Scheinberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Environmental Engineering
020209 energy 02 engineering and technology International trade Public administration 010501 environmental sciences Solid Waste Constructive 01 natural sciences Extended producer responsibility Documentation Waste Management 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering media_common.cataloged_instance Recycling European union 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Solid waste management Government Informal sector business.industry Circular economy Collision Pollution Europe Informal Sector Urban waste business |
| Zdroj: | Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy. 34:820-839 |
| ISSN: | 1096-3669 0734-242X |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0734242x16657608 |
| Popis: | The European Union hosts some of the world’s most developed waste management systems and an ambitious policy commitment to the circular economy. The existence of informal recycling and re-use activities in Europe has been vigorously denied until quite recently, and remains a very challenging subject for the European solid waste management sector, as well as for European government and private institutions. In countries ranging from Malta to Macedonia and from France to Turkey, informal recyclers excluded from legal recycling niches increasingly collide with formalised and controlled European Union approaches to urban waste management, packaging recovery schemes, formal re-use enterprises, and extended producer responsibility systems. This review focuses on the period from 2004 through the first half of 2016. The 78 sources on European (and neighbouring) informal recycling and re-use are contextualised with global sources and experience. The articles focus on informal recovery in and at the borders of the European Union, document the conflicts and collisions, and elaborate some constructive approaches towards legalisation, integration, and reconciliation. The overarching recommendation, to locate the issue of informal recovery and integration in the framework of the European circular economy package, is supported by four specific pillars of an integration strategy: Documentation, legalisation, occupational and enterprise recognition, and preparation for structural integration. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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