Review of environmental and health effects of waste management: municipal solid waste and similar wastes

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2004
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Current

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Sustainability, Environment, Development & Planning

Abstract

Examines the waste management options for treating municipal solid and similar waste. It focuses on the principal types of facilities that are currently used for dealing with such waste in the UK and in Europe, and on what the currently available scientific evidence says about their environmental and health effects.

History

To be read with Waste not, want not (Cabinet Office, 2002).

Subjects

  • Waste planning
  • Planning and development
  • Other planning disciplines
  • Waste management

Publisher History

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is a UK Government department. They are committed to tackling climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and work to secure a healthy, resilient, productive and diverse natural environment. This work has formerly been carried out by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Department of the Environment.

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