This article takes a look at one example of a waste-related environmental impact, the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the European Union (EU) and some EFTA and candidate countries as a result of waste disposal operations such as landfilling, incineration without energy recovery and other treatment operations like composting. It is widely recognised that managing waste has a range of potential environmental impacts and as Eurostat collects and collates basic data on waste generation and treatment, the emission of greenhouse gases can be analysed in some detail.The data were obtained from the European Environment Agency (EEA) database or EEA reports prepared for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Please note that waste nomenclatures may differ: incineration in this context only covers incineration without energy recovery.
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