Environmental Impacts of Waste Paper Recycling (Earthscan Original)

Type

Book

Authors

Yrjo Virtanen

Sten Nilsson

ISBN 10

1853831603

ISBN 13

9781853831607

Tags

Waste Management, Ecology, Conservation, Technology, Environmentalism, Sports & Outdoors, European, Social Services & Welfare, Regional Planning, Public Policy

Description

Public concern for the conservation of natural resources and a general awareness of the environmental consequences of waste disposal is reflected in current legislation aimed at reducing waste. Recycling is commonly cited as one of the preferred methods of waste reduction and this book summarizes a recent study of paper recycling in Europe, which investigated the entire production and disposal process using a life-cycle methodology. The results of the study underline the economic and environmental advantages of paper recycling, but more controversially, they also show how, under certain conditions, the renewable character and the high energy content of paper seem to make energy recovery more attractive than recycling. - from Amzon

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