Katalin Lipták, Andrea S. Gubik, Ágnes Horváth, Mónika Kis-Orloczki

The waste management sector of Hungary

Theory, Methodology, Practice

31-42

waste management sector, circular economy

L26, Q53

10.18096/TMP.2021.02.04

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.

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