Assessing the compliance status of landfills in Türkiye with legal requirements and best available techniques

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2023-9

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Karahan, Reyyan

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Integrated pollution prevention and control, abbreviated as “IPPC”, is a European approach to reducing pollution from different industrial activities. In the EU Member States, the main legal means of controlling industrial emissions with this approach is the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) of the European Council (2010/75/EU). The IED that aims to protect human health and the environment from adverse effects of industrial emissions, requires industrial installations including waste treatment plants to comply with the best available techniques (BATs) to control their emissions. In addition to controlling emissions, IED cover industrial processes from many other aspects such as environmental performance, raw material consumption, energy efficiency, and accident prevention. As part of the harmonization efforts with the EU legislation, the Turkish Ministry of Environment, Urbanization, and Climate Change (MoEUCC) has published the draft IPPC Regulation in 2018. Since then, the MoEUCC has made considerable progress in harmonizing and implementing the IED and launched the IPPC-WASTE (EKOK-ATIK) Project in 2020 that aims the status of waste treatment facilities regarding the IED compliance. This thesis carried out within the scope of the IPPC-WASTE project aims to investigate the compliance status of landfill facilities falling under the IED with the IED and BATs and reveal compliance requirements. For this purpose, field studies were carried out at 4 landfills and online surveys were conducted with 12 landfills. Based the information gathered, in addition to the IED compliance status of landfills, their compliance with the Turkish Regulation on Landfilling of Waste and additional BATs applicable to landfills were also assessed. The IED and BAT compliance data was then used for the evaluation of the possible costs for full compliance with the IED and additional BATs. The overall IED compliance level of landfill facilities covered by the IED was calculated as over 75%. The total investment needed for full compliance of all the landfills covered by the IED and the average investment needed per landfill facility was estimated as 193,375,488 Euros, and 8,057,312 Euros, respectively. The results of the study are expected to be a reference point for decision makers who will develop policy options that can promote sectoral alignment with the IED.

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IED, IPPC, Best available techniques, Landfill, BAT compliance

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105467

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis