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Waste: an information source for environmental planning
By Dr. Norbert Kopytziok
From: UVP-report
2/2000, p. 105 - 108
Classical environmental
planning sees waste as a mixture, for the disposal of which a technical
infrastructure and various treatment systems are necessary. It considers
the spatial impact and the control possibilities in planning. There are
new opportunities in getting rid of the idea that one has to do everything
possible with or to waste, e.g. separating or recycling. Rather should
waste be looked at as a product rich in experience.
Waste is an unwanted or used product which has gone through
numerous individual processes. Within waste there is the history of origins
which is both controlled and accompanied by humans. It is made of raw materials
and energy, which require production, completion and transportation. With
the help of Lifecycle-Analyses (LCA) the essential substance and material
streams are identified. They form an evaluation basis for ecological, economic
and social impacts. It is noted through examples (construction and municipal
wastes) that waste is ideal as a source of information for regional environmental
planning, which must be considered in its global aspects.
Position paper:
Infrastructure systems in qualified future urban planning
The technical infrastructure
systems in cities are outdated in many respects and not adapted to the
sustainable needs of the inhabitants. Urban planning which strives to
a future oriented urban development must also take into account the adjustment
of the infrastructure systems.
Text in German
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