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Measuring waste prevention and reuse: digital opportunities : Using the digitalisation of society to inform policy

Bauer, Bjørn ; McKinnon, David ; Lander Svendsen, Nina ; Egebæk, Kia ; Baxter, John ; Dams, Yoko ; Milios, Leonidas LU and Saari, Pauliina (2022) In TemaNord
Abstract
The data generated in our digital society can be harnessed to generate policy-relevant indicators on waste prevention and reuse, and be used to fill in the gaps left by official data and statistics. This project elaborates where the greatest potentials lie for improving the monitoring of waste prevention and reuse, and presents a roadmap for improving the monitoring of waste prevention in the Nordic countries. This is based mapiping the EU reporting demands for waste prevention and reuse and the methods currently employed in the Nordic countries to measure waste prevention and reuse, as well as an investigation of the methods used in other European countries together with a suite of case studies of novel methods for measuring waste... (More)
The data generated in our digital society can be harnessed to generate policy-relevant indicators on waste prevention and reuse, and be used to fill in the gaps left by official data and statistics. This project elaborates where the greatest potentials lie for improving the monitoring of waste prevention and reuse, and presents a roadmap for improving the monitoring of waste prevention in the Nordic countries. This is based mapiping the EU reporting demands for waste prevention and reuse and the methods currently employed in the Nordic countries to measure waste prevention and reuse, as well as an investigation of the methods used in other European countries together with a suite of case studies of novel methods for measuring waste prevention and reuse. (Less)
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Sustainable consumption and production, digitalisation, waste prevention, reuse, circular economy
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TemaNord
issue
2022:536
pages
127 pages
publisher
Nordic Council of Ministers
ISSN
0908-6692
ISBN
978-92-893-7349-4
978-92-893-7350-0
DOI
10.6027/temanord2022-536
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English
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