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This project was commissioned by the “Sant Antoni Abat” Regional Hospital (Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona), with the support of the Waste Agency of Catalonia (ARC).
The project aimed…
ENT cpoordinated a collection of books on local environmental innovation, that was published by Fundació Pi i Sunyer and the Barcelona Provincial Council (Diputació de Barcelona).
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This project was commissioned by the Waste Agency of Catalonia (ARC) and consisted of updating the “Guide on implementation and management of recycling centres”. This is the…
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Green waste and its management are increasingly demanding more attention because of the limitations that regulations impose on the treatment of biodegradable waste, and the fact that the…
With the premise that economic instruments are effective in promoting environmental improvements, such as reducing waste and increasing the percentage of separate collection of municipal…
The Agència de Residus de Catalunya commissioned ENT the book “Accions de prevenció de residus municipals promogudes pels ens locals a Catalunya i Europa” (Prevention actions…
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The project consisted of preparing, together with Haizea Ikerketa, SL, the guidelines on municipal waste management for the city of Donostia – San Sebastián (Basque Country), which…
Waste treatment facilities are often shared among different municipalities as a means of managing wastes more efficiently. Usually, management costs are assigned to each municipality…
This article was published in the newsletter “Green Budget News” in 2004. It tackles the introduction of the canon of waste in Catalonia, detailing the tax rate, the finalist…
The municipality of Torrelles de Llobregat decided to implement a pay-as-you-throw municipal waste scheme to offer a more equitable charge for citizens who generate less waste. Before the…
Torrelles de Llobregat applied the first pay-as-you-throw experience in Spain, where every household and commercial activity paid the waste charge according to the amount and type of waste…
In 2003 the town of Torrelles de Llobregat (Barcelona) introduced a door to door waste collection scheme, through which the different waste fractions were collected on different days at the…
This paper analizes the writing up and aproval process of the European Union Directive on waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). This analysis shows that European Union…
The main purpose of this paper is to point out how modelling can be useful both as a tool to design environmental policy and as a tool for enterprise management. The paper analyses how an…
