Challenges in technology transfer from developed to developing countries

摘要

Waste management has made big advances in the industrialised part of the world in the course of the last decades. Drivers for this, among others, were rising quantities of waste owing to growing consumption of goods as a result of increasing income and buying power on the one hand and public concerns about damages done to the environment caused by inadequate treatment and disposal of waste on the other hand. Lately, the aspect of reusing resources from waste has become more and more important, especially in regions that are dependent on imports of natural resources, such as the European Union.