Promoting Sustainable Waste Prevention Strategy Activities and Planning in Relation to the Waste Framework Directive in Insular Communities

Citizen's daily activities produce huge quantities of waste affecting the quality of life. On the other hand, citizens are attacked from the media regarding the new products entering the market. Moreover, waste management plans, are sometimes too complex as facilities, like separation and collection, become routine. The production of waste on daily basis is continually increasing; however, the main solution for treatment in insular communities is to send their waste to landfill. According to the Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC), prevention is in the top in waste hierarchy. In order to build up our strategy we must first find out what our waste consists of and then develop our waste prevention campaign and strategic plan. � Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.