Circular economy, recycling and end-of-waste

Scientific paper - Other

• Author: Arne M Ragossnig
• Author: Daniel Rolph Schneider
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture; (Department of Energy, Power and Environmental Engineering); (Power Engineering and Energy Management Chair)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: TECHNICAL SCIENCES; Mechanical Engineering

Abstract (english)

Recycling of waste involves secondary resources – materials that may resemble waste – to cease being considered as waste (end-of-waste ; EoW) and to enter the product-sphere. The relevance of this is to which sphere of legislation the certain material belongs. For waste materials, all waste sector-related legislation has to be applied to and for products (non-waste) to which all product-related legislation applies. The transition from waste to product can take place within a process into which the secondary material enters as a waste input. A different option is that the EoW status is achieved prior to a certain process using the respective secondary resource. In that case the secondary material must not only meet certain EoW (i.e. quality specifications) criteria, but also criteria laid out for the marketing of substances and criteria also applicable to any other primary substance, such as the obligations set out in the REACH-Directive.

• Keywords (english): Circular economy; recycling; end-of-waste
• Language: english
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Other
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review - international
• Publication version: Published version
• Journal title: Waste Management & Research : The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy
• Numbering: vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 109-111
• p-ISSN: 0734-242X
• e-ISSN: 1096-3669
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0734242X19826776
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:235:667771
• Publication: 2019
• Project: Number: IP-2018-01-3200; Title (croatian): Napredni nositelji energije u oporabi plastičnog otpada; Acronym: NEOPLAST; Leader: Daniel Rolph Schneider; Jurisdiction: Croatia; Funding stream: Research Projects
• Document URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0734242X19826776
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2024-05-26 14:05:38