Waste Management Indicators – State and Perspectives

The current political discussions lead to the impression, that all these strategic aims are equally important and should be prosecuted with equal intensity. Yet these aims refer to complex systems and affect a vast amount of interests. Therefore it can be expected that conflicts of aims occur when all the objectives mentioned above are prosecuted simultaneously. The question is whether means exist that may be used to identify these conflicts, assign priorities and evaluate achievement of objectives. One possibility to achieve all this lies in the use of indicators as key figures to picture the state of the system and to evaluate complex relationships within the system.