Abstract
Packaging waste recycling in Europe. What is Romania's place?
Highlights
One of the imperatives of sustainable development and at the same time a practical way to achieve it is to move to a circular economy designed to increase the EU's competitiveness by protecting businesses from resource scarcity, creating new business opportunities and innovative ways [1]
An overview In a first phase, in order to have an overview of the transformations produced in the period 2006-2018 on the recycling rate of packaging waste, the characteristics of the data series corresponding to the six variables were determined and analyzed both at the beginning and at the end of the analyzed period
During the analyzed period, the evolutions of the recycling rate values of total packaging waste registered in the 30 analyzed states were, with three exceptions, ascending so that, if in 2006 the lowest value of the total recycling rate was 10.8%, and the highest, of 79.0%, in 2018, they had reached 37.1% and 85.3% respectively, extreme values registered in the same states
Summary
One of the imperatives of sustainable development and at the same time a practical way to achieve it is to move to a circular economy designed to increase the EU's competitiveness by protecting businesses from resource scarcity, creating new business opportunities and innovative ways [1]. In market economies, with significant competitive processes, in the “visualization of products” and attracting consumers, the packaging of products plays an important role, packaging being the ones that attract attention This leads to the search for and development of new forms and packaging techniques, targeting design and environmental, logistical, waste management [4], whose production increases in parallel with that of the products for which they are intended, with an impact on management them. Under these conditions, a significant improvement in the collection of packaging waste is their design so as to make consumers aware of the recycling of specific packaging [5], through easy sorting and separation [6], and lead to a change in recycling behaviour of them [7]. Viewed in terms of efficiency, Umarsman [9] presents a multi-criteria model for streamlining the management of the collection and separation of packaging waste, phases that he considers of prime importance in the recycling process
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