The waste management sector of Hungary

Authors

  • Ágnes Horváth University of Miskolc
  • Andrea S. Gubik University of Miskolc
  • Mónika Kis-Orloczki University of Miskolc
  • Katalin Lipták University of Miskolc

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18096/TMP.2021.02.04

Keywords:

waste management sector, circular economy

Abstract

Nowadays, the waste management sector faces a number of challenges. Changes in consumer habits generate huge amounts of industrial and household waste. Today’s trends, which involve a higher use of critical raw materials, such as in the manufacture of batteries and solar cells, make it urgent to extract valuable raw materials from waste. The waste sector as a whole, taking into consideration all levels of the waste hierarchy (prevention, reuse, recycling, energy recovery, landfilling), is a significant branch of the national economy, both in terms of employment and income-generating capacity. In addition, the sector can be considered a major intermediary in industrial value chains as it contributes to the generation of secondary raw materials that can be sold to industries and thus help to achieve a circular economy through the collection, treatment and processing of waste.

Author Biographies

Ágnes Horváth, University of Miskolc

Associate Professor

Andrea S. Gubik, University of Miskolc

Associate Professor

Mónika Kis-Orloczki, University of Miskolc

Assistant Lecturer

Katalin Lipták, University of Miskolc

Associate Professor

References

AID, G., EKLUND, M., ANDERBERG, S., BAAS, L. (2017). Expanding roles for the Swedish waste management sector in inter-organizational resource management. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 124, 85–97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2017.04.007

BÁNHIDY, JÁNOS. (2019). Az energetikai hulladékhasznosítás szerepe a körforgásos gazdaságban (The role of energy waste recovery in the circular economy). Don’t Waste It. Retrieved from https://www.dontwasteit.hu/2019/12/09/az-energetikai-hulladekhasznositas-szerepe-a-korforgasosgazdasagban/ on May 12, 2020.

Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives. Retrieved from https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legalcontent/HU/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32008L0098&from=EN on May 12, 2020.

EQUINOX CONSULTING (2016). Kockázatitőke-programok eddigi eredményeinek értékelése. (Evaluation of the results of venture capital programs). Report commissioned by the Prime Minister’s Office. https://www.palyazat.gov.hu/download.php?objectId=71217

EUROPEAN COMMISSION (2017a). Study on the Review of the List of Critical Raw Materials. Criticality Assessments. Retrieved from https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/08fdab5f-9766-11e7-b92d-01aa75ed71a1 on May 12, 2020.

EUROPEAN COMMISSION (2017b). Study on the Review of the list of Critical Raw Materials. Critical Raw Materials Factsheets. Retrieved from https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/7345e3e8-98fc-11e7-b92d-01aa75ed71a1/language-en on May 12, 2020.

EUROPEAN COMMISSION (2017c). Study on the Review of the list of Critical Raw Materials. Non-critical Raw Materials Factsheets. Retrieved from https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/6f1e28a7-98fb-11e7-b92d-01aa75ed71a1/language-en on May 12, 2020.

EUROPEAN COMMISSION (2020)- Study on the EU’s list of Critical Raw Materials – Final Report (2020). Retrieved from https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/42883/attachments/1/translations/en/renditions/native on May 12, 2020.

HÉJJA, E. (2020). A fémhulladék-hasznosítás környezeti és gazdasági előnyei – Végleges formában az EuRIC új brosúrája (Environmental and economic benefits of scrap metal recovery - Final new EuRIC brochure). Retrieved from https://www.zipmagazin.hu/a-femhulladek-hasznositas-kornyezeti-es-gazdasagi-elonyeivegleges-

formaban-az-euric-uj-brosuraja

HORVÁTH, Á. & BERECZK, Á. (2019). Az ipari szimbiózis szerepe a fenntartható erőforrásgazdálkodásban (Role of the industrial symbiosis in the sustainable corporate resource management). Észak-Magyarországi Stratégiai Füzetek XVI(3), 99–109. https://doi.org/10.32976/stratfuz.2019.10

HUNGARIAN WASTE MANAGEMENT FEDERATION, EU-S JOGSZABÁLYOK (EU Regulations). Retrieved from https://www.hosz.org/jogszabalyok on May 12, 2020.

MATHUR, N., DENG, S., SINGH, S., YIH, Y. & SUTHERLAND, J.W. (2019): Evaluating the environmental benefits of implementing Industrial Symbiosis to used electric vehicle batteries. Procedia CIRP, 80, 661-666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2019.01.074

MATHUR, N, SINGH, S. & SUTHERLAND, J.W. (2020). Promoting a circular economy in the solar photovoltaic industry using life cycle symbiosis. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 155, April 2020, 104649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.104649

NACE Rev. 2 - Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community. Eurostat Methodologies and working paper. Retrieved

fromhttps://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/3859598/5902521/KS-RA-07-015-EN.PDF on May 12, 2020.

EURIC CIRCULAR METALS STRATEGY 2021 Retrieved from https://www.euric-aisbl.eu/positionpapers/item/525-euric-circular-metals-strategy-2 on June 20, 2021.

A Nemzeti Hulladékgazdálkodási Stratégia kimunkálásához kapcsolódó tanulmányra ad megbízást az ÉMI (2020, April 9). https://www.dontwasteit.hu/2020/04/09/a-nemzeti-hulladekgazdalkodasi-strategia-kimunkalasahozkapcsolodo-tanulmanyra-ad-megbizast-az-emi/

DATABASES

Central Statistical Office of Hungary (KSH) databases

CORDIS - EU research projects under Horizon 2020 (2014-2020) - https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data/dataset/cordisH2020projects - H2020 Projects and H2020 Project

Publications tables

Eurostat databases

GUESS databases

Horizon 2020 Environment and resources data hub - https://sc5.easme-web.eu/?mode=7#

OPTEN databases

Downloads

Published

2021-07-15

How to Cite

Horváth, Ágnes ., S. Gubik, A. ., Kis-Orloczki, M., & Lipták, K. (2021). The waste management sector of Hungary. Theory, Methodology, Practice – Review of Business and Management, 17(01), 31–42. https://doi.org/10.18096/TMP.2021.02.04

Most read articles by the same author(s)