Energy Recovery from Packaging Waste - the Result of 12 Years’ Standardisation Work

This project on Energy Recovery was established in 1990 by a Swedish initiative as an integrated part of a new committee when CEN (Comite Europeen de Normalisation) founded and structured its Technical Committee TC 261, Packaging. An incentive for all this came from EU, which had started a preparatory work for a Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste. TC 261was organised with four subcommittees (SC), each of them with several working groups (WG). The total number of WGs was 25. In TC 261/SC, 4 different WGs were organised: