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Designing Out Waste: The challenges to full circularity

Designing Out Waste: The challenges to full circularity

Price:

€95.00

Description:

The course provides the learner with an overview of the problem of waste and its link with consumption and production and highlights the sectors of increasing waste pollution: · Food · Plastics and Microplastics · Packaging The course provides a practical overview of the circular economy as a critical component in waste elimination and describes: · The waste management approach for the circular economy · The 10 Rs hierarchy in the circular economy · Extended producer responsibility schemes · Alternative materials promoting the circular economy. · New technologies enabling waste management for the circular economy. Finally, the course describes the drivers of circularity in the waste sector in Europe: · Waste Framework Directive · EU Strategy for Plastics in the Circular Economy · Directive on reducing the impact of certain plastic products on the environment · Packaging Directive · Financial, social and institutional aspects (economic instruments)