Increase of Technogenic Safety of a Waste Management Company

• Main Author: Cudečka-Puriņa Natālija
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2017-11-01
• Series: Safety of Technogenic Environment
• Subjects: Industrial ecology; industrial symbiosis; technogenic safety; waste management
• Online Access: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ste.2017.8.issue-1/ste-2017-0006/ste-2017-0006.xml?format=INT

Waste management is often recognised in the society as an activity sector possessing an extensive potential harm on technogenic safety. As most of the European Union countries have experienced at least theoretical shift from waste management to resource management, it is now extremely important to implement this shift in practice, moving from disposing waste or by-products to developing a cooperation network that allows different industries to use each other’s waste as resources. This shift will lead to saving of primary resources and raw materials and develop recycling and reuse, bringing them to a higher level.