Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2024

Consuming Waste

Résumé

After decades of sophisticated management solutions striving to the (unattainable) disappearance of ever-increasing amounts of waste, more recent policies aim to turn waste into a resource, in the name of circular economy. As well as recycling materials, energy recovery is part of these efforts to “circularise” waste management. Heat, electricity and gas are energy outputs resulting of waste treatment processes, encouraged by incentive policies to power energy supply systems. Far from being an end-of-pipe by-product, recovered opportunistically, energy seems to be taking the lead in waste matters. By establishing waste as a resource, energy production appears to be becoming a means of absorbing –consuming- waste. This chapter deciphers how, in the wake of climate concern, and by means of number of standards and measures concerning the waste hierarchy, the ban of landfill, recovery criteria, and the categorisation of discarded materials as fuel, a waste-energy regime is being put in place in Europe.

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hal-05069472 , version 1 (15-05-2025)

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Laurence Rocher. Consuming Waste. Consuming the Environment (ed. Myra J. Hird), 2024, 9781032535371. ⟨hal-05069472⟩
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