The impact of a change in EC legislation on the combustion of municipal solid waste
report
Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) combustion has been discussed intensively over the last two decades. As a result of this over the last five years changes in regulations, equipment and techniques used have come very rapidly. In Europe different countries have adapted these changes in different degrees and the overall situation is not clear. At the moment the Commission ofthe European Community, DG XI is planning on revising the two directives on municipal solid waste combustion which were set up in 1989. Before doing this, however, the impact of such a revision on the present and future combustion facilities in Europe is to be determined. This is done in two steps: a. Assessment of the present and future simation concerning municipal solid waste combustion facilities. b. Technical and economical consequences for adapting existing and new municipal solid waste combustion facilities to a stricter (EC) directive. In this interim report mainly the results of the first step are presented: a survey on MSW combustion facilities in Europe. The countries concerned in this survey are: Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway, The Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Finland and the United Kingdom
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TNO Identifier
253370
Publisher
TNO
Collation
83 p.
Place of publication
Apeldoorn