WASTE
Waste is usually considered as useless things which people like to dispose of. Less commonly it is perceived as a product – a by-product of production and consumption activities – which has its value. The social (not individual) responsibility for waste produced and the public character of waste management services are the main key for understanding why the amount of waste produced is “too big” and why waste treatment is not considered by state policy as “green” or “sustainable”. What motivates waste producers (and consumers as well) to produce just a certain amount of waste? How to change their behaviour?
The IEEP is concerned with the economic and political aspects of waste treatment with an emphasis on a waste producer’s decisions and the waste market forming in the Czech Republic. Among the professional interests of the IEEP are the evaluation of Czech and EU policy in the waste management field and particularly analyses of the effectiveness of the instruments which are supposed to decrease the negative impacts of waste on the environment. Within these activities the IEEP cooperates with many academic institutions and organizations in practice (municipalities, delivery transportation companies, waste processors etc.).
The main aims of the projects are the following analyses of the deposit-return system on beverage packaging (PET bottles and cans) in the Czech Republic: – a cost-benefit analysis of the system assuming 80% (alternatively 85% and 90%) recycling of beverage packaging from the total quantity, ...
The utilization of secondary raw materials made from waste belongs to one of the key strategies in the Czech Republic. Their aim is to reduce the amount of waste which is stored in landfills or incinerated (with or without using the energy produced). The market decides about the amount of waste ...
The project aims to research analyses of the environmental and economic efficiency of the economic instrument in German waste management based on payments for real produced municipal waste. Theoretical experiences were completed with a questionnaire investigation among those German municipalities ...
