Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste ...

Chair of Waste Management and Emissions
Further, the objective is to forecast the waste generation
in the next 25 years. The need is to establish
a relation between stocks quantities and qualities and
waste generation, the core question being to estimate
stocks life time for the different materials (sand/gravel,
wood, metals, paper, etc.), products and waste
types, and interpret dynamically the causes of the variation
of stocks (accumulation versus waste generation
or dispersive losses).
allow the drawing of tracks of interpretation. These will
be explored providing the knowledge gaps to be filled
for assessing the environmental impacts over the entire
life cycle including dispersive losses of the physical
stocks to the environment (e.g. corrosion and weathering)
and losses of materials as a result of materials
management (e.g. transport and processing), including
energy use of recycling.
As a result, the following support can be given directly
to policy and decision makers:
• Estimation of the material stock of the EU-27.
• Overall mapping of environmental pressures of
waste, enabling an understanding of the environmental
issues of waste;
• As a result of scenarios simulations, links between
the stocks and waste generation in terms of quantities
and quality/composition in the next 25 years.
• The identification of the costs and benefits associated
with:
• Prevention of the wastes has the highest potential
to reduce the environmental pressures on
the use of resources;
• Recovery or recycling of the waste has the
highest potential to reduce the environmental
pressures on the use of resources; and
• Treatment of the wastes is the most polluting.
Additionally, the “leaks” of materials in the system
above mentioned as “uncontrolled waste disposal”
point out the difficulties in making reliable balances
on materials life-cycle. These quantified data anyhow
Financing institution:
EU DG Research
Project partner:
• Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières,
Orléans
• 2.-0 LCA consultants ApS, Copenhagen
• Resource Management Agency, Vienna
• University of Technology - Institute for Water
Quality and Waste Management, Vienna
• University of Stuttgart – Institute of Sanitary,
Water Quality and Solid Waste Management
• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• Central Mining Institute, Katowice
Duration:
2007 - 2009
Contact:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Kranert
Dipl.-Ing. Gerold Hafner
Internet:
http://forwast.brgm.fr/
Materials balance for sand and Gravel in Austria 2001
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