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Author-Name: Katalin Lipták
Author-Email: katalin.liptak@uni-miskolc.hu
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Miskolc
Author-Name: Andrea S. Gubik
Author-Email: getgubik@uni-miskolc.hu
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Miskolc
Author-Name: Ágnes Horváth
Author-Email: vgthagi@uni___miskolc.hu
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Miskolc
Author-Name: Mónika Kis-Orloczki
Author-Email: orloczki.monika@uni-miskolc.hu
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Miskolc
Title: The waste management sector of Hungary
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.
Classification-JEL: L26, Q53
Keywords: waste management sector, circular economy
Pages: 31-42
Number: 01
Volume: 17
Year: 2021
File-URL: http://tmp.gtk.uni-miskolc.hu/volumes/2021/01/TMP_2021_01_04.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:mic:tmpjrn:v:17:y:2021:i:01:p:31-42