Residuos sólidos urbanos e industriales: Situación y gestión en España

Abstract

Urban and Industrial Solid Waste: it's conditions and management in Spain. This article comes across some fundamental aspects to understand the situation of urban and industrial solid waste and, specifically, the different causes that explain the reason for become one of the main challenges of the Spanish environmental politics. I analize the production and processing of waste, falling upon its recent evolution, the obtained achievements and some structural deficiencies that still remain, as a result of an unequal and insufficient management, characterized, among others, by the appearance of the deep territorial contrasts pointed in this article. Finally, I undertake the debate on the future of waste in Spain, studying the main planning instruments designed to face this problem.