The Potential of Energy Recovery of Waste in EU countries in Sustainable Waste Management

This paper provides an overview of waste management and its importance in waste management in the EU. High waste production has long been a global problem. Sustainability is currently a critical goal of human activity and development of countries. The increasing population and waste generation without the proper measures of waste mitigation lead to the major challenge of environmental sustainability. Energy sustainability is important for any plans that concern overall sustainability in the future. Any form of development can only be sustainable if the waste it generates does not accumulate, but is properly recovered. Strategies to achieve this goal have included attempts to obtain energy from waste. In the first part of paper we discuss the importance of sustainable waste management, issue of sustainable energy recovery from waste, the advantages and disadvantages of selected waste management operation. In the second part of the paper, we paid attention to the analysis of waste management as an energy source in selected countries of European Union and the potential of this method of waste management.