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Recycling Reaching the Next Target Case Studies
of Effective Practice in Recycling in
Europe CIWM 2006 Torbay 15 June 2006 Speaker
Cigdem Cole, SSI SCHÄFER


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FRITZ SCHÄFER GMBH NEUNKIRCHEN / SIEGERLAND

• A leading manufacturer and supplier of
  high-quality
• products and systems for warehousing, factories,
  
• office furniture and waste management, operating
  on a
• worldwide basis
• Founded 1939
• Family owned and operated corporation
• more than 8500 employees world-wide
• Global presence in more than 50 countries

1948
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Problems faced worldwide

• Increasing amounts of waste with growing
  prosperity

• Contamination of the ground water by
  uncontrolled landfilling

• Methane emissions from landfill

Targets of a Sustainable Waste Management
1. Prevention of waste
2. Reuse and recycling
3. Disposal
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Legal Framework in Germany

• Political Level
• EU
• Federal Government
• State Government
• Local Council

• Regulation
• Waste Directives
• National Waste Law
• State Government Waste Law
• Local Bye Law

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Principles of the National Waste Law
if not possible

Waste Prevention
Material Recycling
Waste to Energy
Disposal
Landfill Directive effective from 1st June,2005,
bans landfilling of untreated waste
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Federal Government Actions / Waste Law

• Producer and Owner of Waste are under the
  obligation to recycle or dispose of waste
  materials
• Exception Private Households. The local council
  has the responsibility for managing domestic
  waste.
• Local Council can either sub-contract the
  responsibilities to third parties through a
  tender process or carry out the work directly

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Federal Government / National Waste Law
Those who develop, produce, process or sell goods
are responsible for the product
Product Responsibility

• Their obligations
• Production of multi-usable, long service-life
  products
• Prioritise the use of recyclable or secondary raw
  materials
• Mark harmful products for environmentally
  friendly disposal
• Product to indicate whether it can be returned or
  reused
• Take back products or residual product waste for
  recycling and disposal

• Regulations for
• Packaging
• End-of-life vehicles
• Batteries
• Waste oil
• Sewage sludge
• WEEE
• ...

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State Government Actions / Waste Law of North
Rhine Westphalia

• Stipulates the separate collection of waste
  materials
• Regulates the sphere of responsibility for
  disposal
• Obligates waste management concepts and surveys

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State Waste Law NRW

• Sphere of responsibilities
• Local Councils Collection and transportation of
  waste materials
• District Councils Treatment and disposal of
  waste materials

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Local Council Bye Laws

• 1. Bye Law for Waste Collection and Disposal
• Organisation of the duties
• Obligations of property owners
• 2. Bye Law for fees

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• Implementation of the multi bin system in the
  local Council
• Burbach
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• 1976 One grey bin 240 L for residual waste
• 1984 One blue bin 240 L for paper / cardboard
  
• 1984 One yellow bin 240 L for light packaging
  / PET
• 1998 One brown bin 240 L for garden and
  kitchen waste
• 1985 Depot Containers for the central
  collection of glass
• 
  

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Waste Collection in Burbach

• The contract for waste collection was awarded to
  a private contractor after a public tender
  process
• The tender exactly specifies the service required
• The contract includes the details of the
  collection and the payment for the service
  including bins

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Alternating Collection Cycle

• Grey Bin (Residual Waste) 4 weeks

• Blue Bin (Paper/Cardboard) 4 weeks

• Yellow Bin (Plastics / Packaging) 4 weeks

• Intensively ventilated brown Bin (bio) 2
  weeks

• Depot Containers (Glass) 2 - 4 weeks

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Alternating Collection with Wheeled Bins

• In contrast to box collection, wheeled bins allow
  waste materials to be stored hygienically and
  offer sufficient capacity to reduce the
  collection frequency of the individual materials.
• Organic material, e. g. is collected fortnightly,
  alternating with a monthly collection of waste
  paper, plastics/packaging, and residual waste.
  This keeps collection costs constant.

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Alternating Collection with Wheeled Bins The
Key to cost-effective, successful Waste Management

• EXAMPLE
• Basics cost per truck per day
  approx. 500,00
• collected bins per day and truck approx. Pcs. 1
  000
• cost for each collected bin
  0,50
• Weekly collection of 1 bin system
• 52 weeks x 0,50 26,00/year
• Multi Bin System Collection of organic waste,
  waste paper,
• packaging and residual waste operating on
  alternate weeks
• Organic waste (fortnightly) 26 weeks x
  0,50 13,00/year
• Waste paper (every 4 weeks) 13 weeks x
  0,50 6,50/year
• Residual waste (every 4 weeks) 13
  weeks x 0,50 6,50/year
• Packaging waste (every 4 weeks) financed by
  DSD
  26,00/year RESULT no
  additional costs for separate collection

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Waste collection calender, municipality of Burbach
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Collection Quota in BurbachTotal waste arising
about 470 kgs per person p.a.

• Bio Waste 140 kgs per person 30
• Glass 22 kgs per person 5
• Paper 80 kgs per person 17
• Plastics / Packaging 36 kgs per person 8
• 
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• Recyclables in total 278 kgs per
  person p. a.
• Residual Waste 190 kgs per
  person p. a.
• Recycling rate 60

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Collection of Bio Waste

• 99 of the households are provided with a bio
  bin
• Home composting is optional
• The Council of Burbach subsidises the purchase of
  a home compost bin with 10

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Supervision during Collection

• The separation of the waste materials is checked
  by waste collectors
• Residents who do not segregate the materials
  correctly are
• - advised
• - or the bin is not emptied
• Breach of the bye law can be fined with up to
  50,000
• Important Public information for residents

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Costs and Financing of Waste Management

• The costs are made up of
• the collection and transportation services,
  composting and recycling (evaluated by the public
  tender)
• the fees for landfilling or incineration charged
  by the District Council.
• The costs are covered by
• a standard fee per resident which includes all
  services for waste management

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Costs of waste management in Burbach in 2005

• Fee paid to the contractor for collection
• including the provision of bins 18.60/person
  ( 12.80)
• Incineration of Municipal Waste 189.80/t (
  131.00)
• Composting (incl. transport) 124.90/t (
  86.00)
• Collection of hazardous household
• waste 1.10/person ( 0.76)
• Administrative Costs 2.00/person (
  1.39)
• Fee incl. bio bin 66.64/person/year ( 46.00)

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Landfill volume without separate collection 100
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One additional bin for the separate collection of
garden and kitchen waste at least 35 landfill
reduction.
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Another 20 landfill reduction by separate
collection of waste paper.
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Additional 10 landfill reduction with separate
collection of glass.
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Additional 7 landfill reduction by using a
fourth bin. Result More than 70 of the waste
is segregated as recyclables from the waste flow.
Residual waste lt 30 !
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• Result
• Britains national recycling targets can be
  easily fullfilled with a multi wheeled bin
  system for the separate collection at source.
• 1. The collection of garden and kitchen waste by
  means of a bio bin is most
  effective
• up to 35 of the total waste amount can be
  reduced in this way
• Followed by
• 2. the paper bin - 20
• 3. the light packaging-/PET-/metal-bin - 7
• 4. depot containers for glass - 10

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• Result
• The remaining residual waste ( max. 30 ) is
  dry, to a great extent free of wet organic
  materials and results in remarkably lower
  landfill costs (- 70 )
• Methane gas and ground water pollution by
  landfilling is drastically reduced.
• Higher recycling rates, reduced costs, decreased
  physical strain and improved working conditions
  for refuse collectors in accordance with the
  European regulation for manual lifting by using
  wheeled bins (EU Directive 90/269)

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CONCLUSIONS

• The correct legal framework is essential for
  success
• The separate collection of different waste
  material fractions can be accepted and well used
  by householders
• The use of adequately sized and easily handled
  containers encourages the participation of
  residents
• The provision of sufficient easy to understand
  educational and promotional literature is very
  important
• The use of varying frequencies for these
  collections minimises additional costs
• High levels of recycling can be achieved in
  excess of those proposed in the draft revision of
  the Waste Strategy for England

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Thank you for your attention