Abstract
The aim of the present article is to preliminarily analyse the effects that the introduction of the principles of circular economy can have on the occupational risk in the sector of MSW management. The chosen reference scenario concerns an Italian town that reached a very high efficiency of selective collection and where a lot of data have been generated in the last years to characterize the content of MSW. Since 2015, the town has to modify a few criteria of MSW management in order to fully comply with the vision of EU. The methodology adopted in the present article is based on the following steps. Details on the destination and material recovery were collected for each stream of MSW presently source separated: specifically, food waste and green waste, paper and cardboard, plastics, metals, glass, composite materials, textiles, expired medicaments, exhausted batteries and other. This scenario was analysed concerning new possible initiatives on source separated streams and their treatment (e.g. diapers). Moreover, additional modifications to the present approach were analysed in order to maximize material recovery, optimize energy recovery and minimize landfilling. Consequences of this re-organization of the sector have to be discussed in terms of occupational risk and economic impact.
Highlights
In the year 2015 the European Union (EU) issued an important package of documents on a new vision of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management, setting new specific targets on the valorization of the materials present in the generated stream [1,2,3].The priority is material recovery [4,5,6,7]
The aim of the present article is to preliminarily analyse the effects that the introduction of the principles of circular economy can have on the occupational risk in the sector of MSW management
Since 2015, the town has to modify a few criteria of MSW management in order to fully comply with the vision of EU
Summary
In the year 2015 the European Union (EU) issued an important package of documents on a new vision of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management, setting new specific targets on the valorization of the materials present in the generated stream [1,2,3].The priority is material recovery [4,5,6,7]. In this frame, the aim of the present article is to preliminarily analyse the effects that the introduction of the principles of circular economy can have on the occupational risk in the sector of MSW management. Since 2015, the town, has to modify a few criteria of MSW management in order to fully comply with the vision of EU [12]
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