The Dutch Waste Profile Sample Clauses

The Dutch Waste Profile. The Netherlands has an area of 41 848 km2 and population of 16 659 100 inhabitants (Data: 2011 estimate)1. The total GDP of the Netherlands for 2010 is estimated to be 676 700 billion $ where the GDP per capita is 40 777 $. The environmental costs amount to 2.5% of the GDP (corresponding to 10 billion €) where the total costs of waste management in the country are 4.1 billion € which correspond to 41% of the budget allocated for environmental costs. For comparison, Senegal's total area is 196 723 km2, has a population of 13 711 597 inhabitants (data for 2009). The total GDP of the country for 2010 is 23 274 billion $ where the GDP per capita is 1 772 $. Waste policies Back in the 1990s, the key to successful development of waste management was based on the cooperation between local, provincial and national government. Those three authorities reached a consensus to implement waste management programs and to comply with all agreements issued 1 Source: Waste Management Authority of SenteNovem by the council, thus guaranteeing common responsibility and reliance for the planning and implementation of decisions. However, recycling and prevention of waste generation needed to be promoted due to area constraints in the country. These practices were strongly stimulated as extra landfill capacity and large-scale incineration were needed for the upcoming years, which from the other hand would result in large investments. Nevertheless, this policy could not be implemented given the existing provincial and municipal municipalities. The government had to establish few national plans additionally as reaching a common agreement on new policies and disposal facilities requires close cooperation between all institutional bodies which are involved. In the past times, waste management have been responsibility of the local authorities and each municipality had its own landfill whereas some large cities had their own incineration plants due to lack of space for landfilling. In 1976/1977 the "Hazardous Waste Act" and "Waste Act" were introduced by the government with the main goal to decrease significantly the amount of waste being dumped on landfills which was resulting in great environmental problems. Consequently, waste disposal needed to be organized on a larger scale in order for the technical provisions to be economically justifiable. However, lack of administrative scale for handling waste in an environmentally friendly and hygienic way at reasonable costs was still lacki...
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