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Every year, some 2 billion tonnes of waste - including particularly hazardous waste - are produced in the Member States, and this figure is rising steadily. The best solution is, as always, to prevent the production of such waste, reintroducing it into the product cycle by recycling its components where there are ecologically and economically viable methods of doing so. The European legal background is presented in the followings with active links.

• GENERAL FRAMEWORK
  • Directive on waste
  • Waste disposal (until the end of 2010)
  • Strategy on the prevention and recycling of waste
  • Integrated pollution prevention and control: IPPC Directive
  • Waste management statistics
  • Competitiveness of the recycling industries
  • Landfill of waste
  • Waste incineration
  • Shipments of waste
• HAZARDOUS WASTE
  • Controlled management of hazardous waste (until the end of 2010)
  • Basel Convention
• WASTE FROM CONSUMER GOODS
  • Packaging and packaging waste
  • Disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs)
  • Disposal of spent batteries and accumulators
  • Disposal of waste oils
  • Management of end-of-life vehicles
  • The reusing, recycling and recovering of motor vehicles
  • Waste electrical and electronic equipment
• WASTE FROM SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES
  • Management of waste from extractive industries
  • A strategy for better ship dismantling practices
  • Ship dismantlingArchives
  • Removal and disposal of disused offshore oil and gas installations
  • Use of sewage sludge in agriculture
  • Port infrastructure: facilities for ship-generated waste and cargo residues
  • Titanium dioxide
    • Disposal of titanium dioxide industrial waste
    • Surveillance and monitoring of titanium dioxide waste
    • Reduction of pollution caused by waste from the titanium dioxide industry
• RADIOACTIVE WASTE AND SUBSTANCES
  • Shipments of radioactive waste: supervision and control
  • Shipments of radioactive substances
  • Situation in 1999 and prospects for radioactive waste management
  • Management of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste

waste management is the control of the collection, treatment and disposal of different wastes. This is in order to reduce the negative impacts waste has on environment and society. There are many waste types, notably including municipal solid waste, industrial and commercial waste, and hazardous waste.