Composting of a mixture of VFG waste and used paper diapers
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Waste disposal in the Netherlands has come under great pressure in recent years. The policy ofthe Dutch government is directed towards radically restricting on the domestic waste to be dumped on the basis of social, spatial and environmental protection considerations. The key point of this policy is to make possible and promote the exploitation (re-use and useful application) of domestic waste and the sole application of waste incineration for the - greatly reduced - residual fraction. The utilization of waste is made possible by the separation of waste at source, for example through waste paper collection, bottle banks and VFG tanks. As well as the above considerations, there is a cost saving in this integrated approach to waste treatment over the dumping or incineration of waste, partly in view of the sharp rise in the price of these ways of waste treatment. Although the scales of charges differ from one municipality to another, it can be stated that the costs of composting VFG waste at present are equal to or lower than the costs of dumping or incineration. The composting of VFG waste will be increasingly cheap in the near future in relative terms as a result of the policy being conducted. In view of the integrated approach to waste treatment in the Netherlands, the composting of used paper diapers, i.e. moving diaper waste from the residual fraction to the VFG waste stream, will be a logical step to take
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TNO Identifier
295634
Publisher
TNO
Collation
40 + 9 Bijlagen
Place of publication
Apeldoorn