Waste policy
Subtitle: international regulation, comparative and contextual oerspectives
By: Alexander Gillespie, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Research and Professor of law, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Series: New Horizons In Environmental and Energy Law; New horizons in environmental and energy law
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Northampton, MA : b Edward Elgar Publishing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781784715878; 9781784715885
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Refuse and refuse disposal; Law and legislation; Hazardous wastes; Factory and trade waste; International Environmental law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction; title: 2.Five certainties on waste; title: 1.Introduction; title: 2.Unwanted solid material of no further use; title: 3.The costs of disposal and their implications; title: 4.The international connection; title: 5.Zero waste and waste minimisation; title: 6.The growth in production; title: 7.Conclusion; title: 3.The waste hierarchy; title: 1.Introduction; title: 2.The solid waste hierarchy; title: 3.Prevention; title: 4.Conclusion; title: 4.Recycling; title: 1.Introduction; title: 2.Recycling, reuse, recovery and reclamation; title: 3.Law and policy; title: 4.Recycling and the Basel Convention; title: 5.Economic and environmental contexts; title: 6.Where the market is tepid; title: 7.Where the market is voracious; title: 8.Conclusion; title: 5.Disposal into the air; title: 1.Introduction; title: 2.Open burning; title: 3.Controlled burning; title: 4.The risks of controlled burning; title: 5.Managing the risk; title: 6.Conclusion; title: 6.Disposal into The land; title: 1.Introduction; title: 2.Beginnings; title: 3.Emerging problems; title: 4.Evolving standards; title: 5.Conclusion