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SUSTAINABILITY
WASTE TRADE AND INCINERATION

very dangerous substances which their livelihoods affected due to Last but not least, we see this is
can have serious for the health regulations – such as banning any yet another incentive for creating
of humans, animals, and living organic certification for food items a policy framework that would
organisms in the environment grown around incinerators. support the phase-out of waste
– these are telling signs of the incinerators while promoting
harmful effects of incineration. In our opinion, to fully understand circular, healthy and sustainable
Whilst the general adverse effects the real impact of burning waste on non-combustion alternatives – such
from local pollution would affect public health and the environment, as Material Recovery and Biological
everyone, there is a particular biomonitoring research should be Treatment (MRBT) plants. 11
risk for people living closer to made mandatory for all existing
incinerators. Not only are they incineration projects across Europe. We believe this is the way forward
at risk due to the potentially Biomonitoring is relatively cheap if the EU hopes to achieve the zero
negative toxic effects of ingesting when compared to direct emissions pollution goal set out in its Action
contaminated food, but it is also measurements, making it an Plan: ‘Towards Zero Pollution for Air,
possible that they could have accessible, cost-effective tool. Water and Soil’. n
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About the author
Janek has been ZWE’s Climate, Energy, and Air Pollution
Programme Coordinator since 2018. He coordinates our climate
and energy policy advocacy work towards EU institutions in issues
related to end-of-life waste treatment.

Before joining ZWE he worked for Friends of the Earth Europe
(FoEE) and Justice and Environment (J&E), where he was Contact details
responsible for the development of strategic partnerships.
Janek Vahk
Climate, Energy, and Air
About Zero Waste Europe
Pollution Programme
Coordinator
Zero Waste Europe is the European network of communities, E: janek@zerowasteeurope.eu
local leaders, experts, and change agents working towards the
elimination of waste in our society. We advocate for sustainable Berta Corredor
systems and the redesign of our relationship with resources, to Press Officer at ZWE
accelerate a just transition towards zero waste for the benefit of E: berta@zerowasteeurope.eu
people and the planet. T: + 32 471 965 593

References
1. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Municipal_waste_statistics#Municipal_waste_treatment
2. https://zerowasteeurope.eu/library/the-landfill-target-may-work-against-the-circular-economy/
3. Residual waste or mixed waste is a waste that is not separately collected.
4. https://www.cewep.eu/dioxins-wte-state-of-the-art/
5. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269749119302556
6. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1753-6405.12939
7. https://zerowasteeurope.eu/library/the-true-toxic-toll-biomonitoring-of-incineration-emissions/
8. The EU regulations urge for action on these sampled egg locations to find out the source of POP contamination, in order to eliminate or
– at least – do the utmost to reduce dioxins (PCDD/F) to minimum levels https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3
A32017R0644#:~:text=Commission%20Regulation%20(EU)%202017%2F,(Text%20with%20EEA%20relevance.%20)
9. https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/10/17/lausanne-discovers-soil-has-been-polluted-with-dangerous-chemicals-for-more-than-
years
10. https://www.toxicowatch.org/single-post/biomonitoring-beringen-belgium-2021
11. https://zerowasteeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/zero_waste_europe_policy_briefing_MRBT_en.pdf
12. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52021DC0400&qid=1623311742827

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