Built Environment
                            Quantitative Benchmarks for Waste Prevention – A guide for local & regional authorities in support of the new Waste Framework Directive
                            
                            
                                                
                                                    
                                08 March 2010
                                                                   ACR+ Technical reports, Waste and Material Flows
                                                            
                        
                                                                            
                                                                            
                    One of the big challenges with waste prevention involves trying to set quantitative targets and to quantify the results of waste prevention efforts. To help fill these gaps, ACR+ has published a guide on quantitative benchmarks for waste prevention. The guide consists of a thorough review of the waste prevention prescriptions contained in the new Waste Framework Directive, an in-depth research on the principles and applications of benchmarking and, finally, a systematic effort to capture, in a European context, 95 quantitative waste prevention examples that, through voluntary actions, exemplify the potential waste reductions achievable at regional and local level.
 
      
 
                                  