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Section for Waste and Resource Efficiency

This page shows the event history for this unit.

Remarks: * = If a date is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies that the date is not confirmed.

2024-01-01 00:00:00.0 * Founding by splitting

Name
Section for Waste and Resource Efficiency

Short name
AVFALL

Affiliations
Ministry

Hierarchical level
Section

Superior body
Department for Marine Management and Pollution Control

Located
301 Oslo

Ended body as a consequence of dividing:

Tasks:
The section is responsible for international cooperation, including with the EU/EEA, and national policy development in the area of waste. This includes inter alia instruments and measures for better utilization of waste as a resource in a more circular economy, such as increased material recycling and re-use, schemes for extended producer responsibility, work to reduce food waste and cleaning up marine litter. It is also responsible for the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes.
Source: regjeringen.no, january 2024