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Batteries

• Substitution of Rechargeable NiCd Batteries

Biodegradable Waste

• The Commission supports extensive research in the area of biodegradable plastics. The Community funded BIOMAT website gives details on the extensive amount of bioplastic research that has been carried out over the past 15 years under the different framework programmes. There is substantial potential for research projects on bioplastics under the Seventh Framework Programme (2006 - 2010) across several themes, and particularily from the biorefinery and microbial routes. For more information on Community funding opportunities for research, see also: http://cordis.europa.eu/en/home.html.
  
  
• Economic analysis of options for managing biodegradable municipal waste 

Executive Summary (pdf~50K)
Final Report (pdf~ 1,200K)
Appendices (pdf~1,020K)

Construction and Demolition Waste

• Construction and Demolition Waste Management Practices and their Economic Impacts

End of Life Vehicles

• Heavy metals in Vehicles

• Rules on compliance with Article 7.2 of Directive 2000/53/EC

European List of Waste

• Study on the Review of the European List of Waste: see information on the Waste Framework Directive pages

Feasibility of the establishment of a Waste Implementation Agency

• Final Report (pdf ~ 1,6 Mb)

• Annexes (pdf ~ 790 kb)

Household waste

• Study on hazardous household waste with a main emphasis on hazardous chemicals

Implementing EU waste legislation for green growth

This study contains an in-depth analysis of the effects of proper implementation and enforcement of EU waste legislation, both in terms of the economic, social and environmental benefits of implementing EU waste legislation as well as through a number of specific case studies in Cyprus, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands. The study also describes the necessary tasks to be carried out in order to overcome current implementation barriers and includes a number of options on how to deal with these tasks.

• Final Report (pdf ~ 2,5 Mb)

• Press release

Landfill

• Economic Valuation of Environment Externalities from Landfill Disposal and Incineration of Waste 

Mining

• Management of mining, quarrying and ore-processing waste in the European Union

  Final Report (pdf ~1,160K)
  Annexes (pdf ~840K)

• A study on the costs of improving the management of mining waste
  Executive summary (pdf ~ 40K)
  Final report (pdf ~ 460K)

Oils

• Critical Review of Existing Studies and Life Cycle Analysis on the Regeneration and Incineration of Waste Oils

Packaging and Packaging Waste

• Study on the implementation of the Packaging Directive and options to strengthen prevention and re-use
• Final Report (pdf ~2,78MB)
• Annexes (pdf ~2,15MB)
• Background information and stakeholder consultation (pdf ~2,25MB)
• Reuse of primary packaging
• European packaging waste management systems
• Evaluation of Costs and Benefits for the Achievement of Reuse and the Recycling Targets for the Different Packaging Materials in the Frame of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive 94/62/EC
• Final Report (pdf ~2,35MB)
• Annexes 1-7 (pdf ~2,20MB)
• Annexes 8-13 (pdf ~2,25MB)

POPs - Persistent Organic Pollutants

• Study on waste related issues of newly listed POPs and candidate POPs: Final report (pdf ~7,3MB) (2011)
• Corrigendum of 29 September 2005 (pdf ~72,8KB)
• Final report on the study to Facilitate the Implementation of Certain Waste Related Provisions of the Regulation on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) (pdf ~28 KB) - Clarification (pdf ~3,2MB)
• Annex 1 (pdf ~175KB)
• Annex 2 (~286K)
• Annex 3 (pdf ~60K)
• Annex 4 ( ~23K)
• Executive summary (pdf ~128K)
• Summary report (pdf ~227K)

• Synthesis report (pdf ~800K)

PVC

• Life cycle assessment of PVC and of principal competing materials
• Economic evaluation of PVC waste management
• Chemical recycling of Plastics Waste (PVC and other resins
• Mechanical recycling of PVC wastes
• The behaviour of PVC in landfills
• The influence of PVC on the quantity and hazardousness of flue gas cleaning residues from incineration

• Studies done by the European Commission on the additives used in PVC (phthalates, cadmium and lead) within the framework of the market restrictions policy of the Commission

Shipments

• Report on joint enforcement actions on waste shipments (pdf ~ 1,9 Mb)

Sludge

• Heavy metals (trace elements) and organic matter content of European soils - Feasibility study  (pdf  830K) 
• Trace element and organic matter contents of European soils - Progress report  (pdf  950K) 
• Organic contaminants in sewage sludge for agriculture use (pdf  1120K)
• Disposal and recycling routes for sewage sludge
• Pollutants in urban waste water and sewage sludge 

• Evaluation of sludge treatments for pathogen reduction 

Other Waste Studies

• Coherence of Waste Legislation - 2011 (pdf ~ 7,3Mb)
• Plastic waste in the environment - November 2010 (pdf ~ 2,4Mb)
• Support in the drafting of an ExIA on the Thematic Strategy on the Prevention and Recycling of Waste (TSPRW) (pdf ~ 1,4Mb)
• Refuse Derived Fuel, Current Practice and Perspectives (pdf ~ 900K)
• Heavy Metals in Waste - 2002
• Costs for Municipal Waste Management in the EU - March 2002
• Financing and Incentive Schemes for Municipal Waste Management - 2002
• Waste Prevention and Minimisation - 1999
• Waste Management Options and Climate Change
• Survey of wastes spread on land
• Study on the definition of recovery and disposal operation
• Further studies on waste