End of waste criteria for oil wastes

Abstract

In the context of sustainable development, harmonized good management practices should ensure the recovery of valuable components from wastes applying the principle of waste hierarchy in order to comply with Waste Frame Directive requirements. The article presents a scheme of a circular economic model applied to the oil waste. Those oil wastes are of the particular interest because they can positively respond to the End of Waste Criteria. Those criteria are referring to the compliance of the waste derived products with the legal and regulatory applicable specifications for their intended use, the existence of a market demand for this type of products and with the fact that their production and use is safe for the environmental and human health. After fulfilling those conditions the waste producer can declare the end of waste status of the generated waste and proceed to the recovery of valuables entities including the energy recovery. The article presents the economic, ecologic and social implications of applying End of Waste Criteria to the oil waste within such a circular economic model in order to respond to European and Romanian strategy of increasing the recyclable degree of those types of wastes.