TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT

Sweden
Partners

Agency for Nature and Forest, Chalmers University, Gothenburg University, IVL, KTH, Luleå Technical University, Lund University, National Institute of Economic Research, Profu, University of Gävle

Contact

Greger Heneriksson
Drottning Kristinas Väg 30
10044 Stockholm

E. greger.henriksson@abe.kth.se
T. +46 8 790 60 00

Visit: www.sustainablewaste.info

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Towards Sustainable Waste Management was 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

The project was a multidisciplinary effort involving ten institutes in Sweden. KTH was mainly involved in:

  • Developing suggestions for policy.

  • Assessing environmental impacts of different policy proposals.

  • Analysing how efficient systems can be designed from a users perspective.

  • Analysing the potential of improved recycling processes.

  • Developing future scenarios.

Contact us

Location

Department of Materials Engineering
Kasteelpark Arenberg 44
3001 Leuven, Belgium