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Pierre SERIN: ESTP-CHEC engineer, teacher, and consultant
INTRODUCTION
Waste as a whole is more than ever a global problem. Consumer society has encouraged the use of raw materials to manufacture various objects, which are then either thrown into the sea (the 7th continent of plastic in the Pacific) or buried (in disused quarries or landfills) without any thought of reusing them.
This waste can be inert, non-hazardous, or hazardous, even highly hazardous, and is always bulky.
The eternal question is: how do we want to leave the planet to our children? It is a question to which we ALL must provide a quick and valid answer.
For several years now, there has been talk of landfill, then treatment (at waste production sites or specific locations); this raises the issue of waste transport, hence the problem of illegal dumping. Regulations are advancing, and as raw materials become scarce, there is talk of waste recovery (since some types of waste are becoming valuable). A logical chain is being created: waste production (production waste, demolition waste, etc.), waste sorting (on site or at specific locations), final waste going to destruction, treated waste gaining value and returning to use.
All of this will make up the life of a piece of waste... But above all, isn't the best waste the waste we don't produce?
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Bibliography
Standards and norms
- Concrete – Specification, performance, production, and compliance – National supplement to standard NF EN 206 - NF EN 206/CN - Novembre 2014
Regulations
Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of November 19, 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives (text with EEA relevance)
Law No. 75-633 of July 15, 1975 on waste disposal and material recovery
Law No. 2020-105 of February 10, 2020 on combating waste and promoting the circular economy (Anti-Waste Law for a Circular Economy, AGEC Law)...
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