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CHAPTER I V: Waste Management Introduction
CHAPTER IV: Waste Management CHAPTER IV: Waste Management Introduction Waste Management is a challenging issue from an environmental, political, legal and social point of view. G rowth of large urban areas, tourist flow, rise of living standards and change of consuming patterns, have led to an increase of the produced volumes of municipal Waste with a simultaneous change of its composition. At the same time, there is a growing concern on the site allocation for Waste Management installations. Furthermore, until recently, big quan tities of useful materials ( paper, glass, aluminium, plastic, metal and wood) have not been, in some cases, exploited to their full potential, through recovery and recycling.
Chapter IV: Waste Management 37 Figure 7: Generation of waste by economic activity (Shares, 2006) Construction 13.3% Mining and quarrying 29.0% Electricity, gas and water supply 25.3% Households 8.1% Waste management activities 1.9% Other economic activities (services) 3.0% Agriculture, hunting and forestry 9.2% Fishing 0.01% Manufacturing ...
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