Essays about: "waste management and environmental law"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 essays containing the words waste management and environmental law.

1. 1. Repurposing of Electric Vehicle Batteries for Energy Storage – A review of the current legal framework and proposals for improvement

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrätt

   Author : Daniel Torán Saltó; [2022]
   Keywords : Electric Vehicles; Batteries; Electric Vehicle Batteries; Waste Law; Circular Economy; Reuse; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Circular economy has recently become a central part of European policy, bridging the environmental and economic policy domains closer than ever in an attempt to fulfil enhanced environmental ambitions. As economic operators seek to adopt innovative solutions, the issue of how established legal frameworks hamper or facilitate them becomes central. READ MORE

3. 2. Burn or Return? Evaluating Deposit Return Systems for Plastic Packaging Waste in Sweden : A Comparative Life Cycle Assessment

   University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

   Author : Martin Forsman Hedman; [2022]
   Keywords : Resource management; reuse; deposit return scheme; circular economy; polypropylene;

   Abstract : Plastics have become an integral part of modern life and global use is expected to grow almost two- fold until 2040. 40% of European demand for plastic raw materials is driven by the packaging industry and being a cheap material, focus on waste management has historically been neglected. READ MORE

4. 3. How Can Unit Pricing Be Employed and Improve Municipal Waste Management in Shanghai?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

   Author : Lan Li; [2020]
   Keywords : Pay As You Throw; Unit Pricing; Municipal Solid Waste Management; Source Separation; Waste Reduction; Recycling Behavior; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : China is on a transition to waste management charging reform and pursuing effective eco-nomic incentives on an individual level. Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT)/Unit pricing is recog-nized as an important and effective means to waste prevention and source segregation ren-dered by the government mostly in the developed countries. READ MORE

5. 4. Wasting our future by wasting the Sea : How to combat marine pollution from land-based sources on international and regional level

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Lovisa Fransson; [2020]
   Keywords : Marine pollution from land-based sources; United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea; the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal; Basel Ban Amendment; the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants; international waste trade; environmentally sound management of wastes; marine plastic debris; international environmental law of the sea; transboundary marine pollution; UN Sustainable Development Goal 14.1; Agenda 2030;

   Abstract : In the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the environmental protection of the marine environment was first addressed in a comprehensive manner on an international level. However, the Convention distinguishes between four different sorts of pollution depending on which source the pollution originates from. READ MORE

6. 5. Municipal Solid Waste Management in Informal Settlements – A multiple-case study of challenges and possibilities in the favelas and informal sector of Rio de Janeiro city

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Miljö- och energisystem

   Author : Emma Bergman; [2019]
   Keywords : municipal solid waste management; informal settlement; favela; waste picker; recycling cooperative; environmental protection; social inclusion; Rio de Janeiro; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : Today, about one billion people in the world live in informal settlements and lack access to basic services and city infrastructure. In Rio de Janeiro, approximately 1,4 million people, one fourth of the city population, live in informal settlements, in Brazil called favelas. READ MORE