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Sustainable Waste Management: European Experiences - Croatian Perspectives

Large amounts of waste have caused the EU member states to launch legislative framework on waste management. During last decades those regulations have been changed and amended in accordance with changes in the environment and needs for action. Introduction of the new framework and new aims stressing the prevention of waste creation led to the reform and simplification of the European waste management policy, which is the trend of developments in waste management. Through the Waste Management Strategy and Waste Management Plan 2007-2015, Croatia chose a concept of county and regional waste management centres. Due to the difference in quality, but also in environmental acceptability of particular procedures of waste processing, hierarchical sequence of waste disposal includes waste creation prevention, reuse, recycling and composting, energy recycling and other kinds of processing before final disposal of the remaining waste. Croatia plans establishment of an integrated waste management system by the end of 2018. The accent is on decreasing of disposal and increasing of recycling by means of the establishment of primary selection, recovery of the existing waste disposal sites as well as construction of waste management centres. The integrated waste management system plans recovery and closure of all disposal sites and establishment of waste management centres by the end of 2018, and recycling of a minimum of 50% of glass, paper, plastic and metal by 2020. Public sector and other institutions have shown great willingness to implement the set tasks and goals on national, regional and local levels including the challenges accompanying possible lack of vertical and horizontal communication and coordination.

waste disposal ; recycling ; waste disposal sites recovery ; public institutions ; communication ; coordination

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