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Circular Economy
About Waste

Challenging Changes – Connecting Waste Hierarchy and Circular Economy

Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess
The Contents ... Challenging Changes – Connecting Waste Hierarchy and Circular Economy

Preface – Frans Timmermans, Vice-President EC (Brussel)
  1. Introduction
  2. Survey of circular concepts since 1979 ... Linear waste and circular resource management
    1. 01 Circular concepts
    2. 02 Lansink’s Ladder
    3. 03 Industrial developments
    4. 04 Zero Waste and Cradle to Cradle
    5. 05 European Thematic Waste Strategy
    6. 06 Circular Economy
  3. Waste hierarchy: a challenging framework
    1. 07 Conceptual frameworks
    2. 08 Prevention
    3. 09 Reusing products
    4. 10 Reusing (secondary) materials
    5. 11 Incineration with(out) energy production
    6. 12 Landfilling
  4. Consumers as chain manager ... Transition aspects
    1. 13 Transitions in waste management
    2. 14 Innovation and waste policy
    3. 15 (Extended) Producer Responsibility
    4. 16 Consumers as chain manager
    5. 17 Duty care against market power
    6. 18 Acceptance of circular economy
  5. Closing different and difficult loops
    1. 19 Supply chain management
    2. 20 Cradle to cradle and waste hierarchy
    3. 21 Product development and design
    4. 22 Logistical challenges
    5. 23 Instruments
    6. 24 Moving to circular economy
  6. Exemplary resource flows
    1. 25 Classic recycling domains
    2. 26 Sustainable building and demolishing
    3. 27 Textiles, mixing biological and technical cycles
    4. 28 Packaging: a special story
    5. 29 Plastics: a difficult portfolio
    6. 30 Phosphate recycling
  7. Output Waste for Energy plants ... Waste and climate policy
    1. 31 Recycling above incineration
    2. 32 The importance of CO2-footprints
    3. 33 Composting and fermentation
    4. 34 Bio-based economy
    5. 35 Cascading biomass
    6. 36 Food and waste
  8. Value creation bio-economy ... Need for (international) legislation
    1. 37 Dutch experience
    2. 38 Importance of waste policy plans
    3. 39 All cards on chain management
    4. 40 European waste policy
    5. 41 Directives and circular economy
    6. 42 EP Draft Report CEP 2015-2016
  9. IMAGE Leaks in circular economy ... Changes for circular economy
    1. 43 The road to circular economy
    2. 44 Plea for uniform terminology
    3. 45 Circular leaks
    4. 46 Dilemmas for circular economy
    5. 47 Global and geopolitical challenges
    6. 48 Creating value
  10. Finally
    1. 49 Main lines
    2. 50 Commentary
    3. 51 Outlook
    4. 52 Recommendations
After all References Abbreviations Glossary Index Acknowledgments Colophon

Summary of main lines circular economy – Illustration of the approach of chapter Finally: Main Lines, Commentary, Outlook and Recommendations. All images on this page, designed by Sophie van Kempen and Ad Lansink, are derived from Challenging Changes. Photo: AVR (Rotterdam)

Note: Between the various chapters, the reader finds a series of interviews, titled “Talking with ..” in which the author gives the floor to prominent people in the field of waste management and circular economy.
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