Research Towards a Sustainable Waste Management

Towards Sustainable Waste Management is an interdisciplinary research programme dedicated to investigating policy instruments and strategic decisions that can contribute to developing waste management in a more sustainable direction.
 
Towards Sustainable Waste Management:
  • surveys existing as well as potential policy instruments.
  • develops future scenarios illustrating how a more sustainable waste management can be designed.
  • investigates systems for source separation and collection aiming to develop knowledge that is needed to adapt these systems to consumers, organisations and companies.
  • investigates the processes of the recycling industry aiming to improve their environmental performance.

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