Lindner, Allison; Steenmans, Katrien; Scotford, Eloise; Malcolm, Rosalind; (2025) Preventing the ‘wasting’ of waste: The expanding horizons of waste law. Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law , 34 (2) pp. 311-315. 10.1111/reel.70011.

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Abstract

The vast amounts of waste produced, the current dominant waste operations and the many waste streams present a harmful and unsustainable environmental problem. Law and policy have a critical role in supporting a shift to sustainable waste management, with motivations including the need to protect health, to protect the environment and to promote resource efficiency. The issue's articles cover a broad terrain of waste law issues, taking more conventional waste law topics and extending them into their wider regulatory and social contexts. The articles look not only at regulatory approaches to tackle pollution emanating from waste but also those promoting sustainable resource management to prevent the ‘wasting’ of waste. Common threads include the needs to focus beyond end-of-life and consider whole life-cycle approaches, to engage with other disciplines and to incorporate social dimensions. Overall, the range of papers in this special issue underscores the complexity governing sprawling waste issues.

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