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Deputy Director General Claus Torp, EPABerlin, 22 November 2016

WASTE PREVENTION PROGRAMS Experiences from Denmark

THE DANISH WASTE MODEL

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Prevention

Reuse

Recycling 67 %

Recovery 27 %

Landfill 4 %

- A combination of administrative measures and regulations and economic measures such as taxes and duties

- A general state tax on waste, differentiated to promote recycling

- Approach: The general principle in the EU waste hierarchy


Sustainable and Resource efficient production

Environmental Engineering

Waste and ResourcesChemicals

FinancingNew business models

Sustainable ConsumptionPublic Procurement

Sharing Economy

CIRCULAR ECONOMY

CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND WASTE PREVENTION OVERLAPS BETWEEN MANY POLICY AREAS AND DISCIPLINES


NATIONAL WASTE STRATEGIES

2013 - Denmark Without Waste I Recycle More, Incinerate Less

2015 - Denmark without Waste II Prevent Waste, Save Resources


DENMARK WITHOUT WASTE IIA Strategy for Waste Prevention

NO QUANTITATIVE TARGETS – BUT EXPECTED EFFECTS

72 initiatives

Consumer Food-waste

Construction and demolition

Clothing & textiles

Electronics

Packaging

Companies

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Make it easier for CONSUMERS to buy products and services with less use of resources , less problematic substances and which generate less waste.

• Website – “one-stop-shop” providing citizens with information and guidelines for a greener every day life

• Task force for green public procurement


DANISH COMPANIES becomes better at producing more with less

resource input in order to contribute to increased resource efficiency.

Task force for increased resource efficiency

• Regulative barriers

• Website


To reduce FOOD WASTE in all parts of the value chain for food

• Partnership on less avoidable food waste

• Food Waste Hunters: Task force to reduced food waste in catering centres


To promote resource efficiency within the CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION sector, and facilitate the handling of problematic substances in a health- and environmentally sound way, and to ensure better knowledge sharing across the sector

• Partnership for sustainable building and waste prevention

• Knowledge Centre for Management and Recycling of Construction Waste

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To ease the possibilities for textile companies to reduce the environmental impact in the production phase, and to make it easier to reuse and recycle TEXTILES, among other things by reducing the problematic substances within textiles

A Common Nordic action plan for a sustainable fashion and textile sector

• Promotion of sustainable Nordic design through educ ation

• Market barriers and drivers: Increased demand for recyclable textiles


To reduce environmental impacts from PACKAGING

• The Danish Deposit & Return System

• Funding for eco-innovation projects on closed loops for packaging waste

To ease reuse and recycling of ELECTRONICS and electronic waste, in order to enhance the longevity of the products, and to support that they can be part of circular loops


• Survey on the re-use potential in collected WEEE


• National Advisor Board for Circular Economy

• National Plan for Circular Economy

• Waste management plan 2018-2014


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