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SOCIAL ECONOMY A MODEL FOR INCLUSION,
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT WARSHAW
10-12 MAY 2006 Workshop B THE BUSINESS GROWTH
SECTORS Developing social enterprises in the
environment recycling DP EcoNet- Austria
Berthold Schleich, ARGE Abfallvermeidung
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• Background history
• The Directive 2002/96/EC of the European
  Parliament and the Council from 27 January 2003
  on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
  (WEEE), which had been converted into national
  regulations by the member states, creates a huge
  market potential.
• That offers an opportunity for social
  enterprises for doing business and for
  reintegrating disadvantaged people in services in
  connexion with re-use, collection, treatment and
  recycling of used electric and electronic goods.
• Market potential volume of 100,000 tonnes of
  electronic waste per annum

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• Main activities
• Module 1 Networking and lobbying to create the
  necessary conditions for the network to flourish
• Module 2 Supporting the 8 participating social
  enterprises in implementing a field of business
  involving WEEE in almost every federal state of
  Austria
• Module 3 Technical training of the
  participating social enterprises cover
  dismantling of WEEE and other related services

• Module 4 Supporting the social trainers in the
  social enterprises by combining and optimizing
  their various approaches and experiences into a
  common social educational model
• Module 5 Creating and establishing a new
  training called recycling centre assistant

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• Partners roles in the DP
• ARGE Abfallvermeidung is leading partner in the
  DP EcoNet-Austria.
• ARGE created a network containing the key
  national stakeholders such as the Federal
  Ministry of Environment, the Chamber of Commerce
  and the Trade Union Federation the national
  association of regional public waste management
  organisations.
• An important role in the network hold the
  existing enterprises (ÖKO-Service, D.R.Z., BAN),
  providing as advisers business and technical
  support for these social enterprises, which are
  implementing a new field of business.

• 8 local social enterprises in nearly all of the
  Austrian federal states try to establish new
  fields of business involving WEEE.

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• Good Practice collection of used mobile phones
• Social enterprises D.R.Z. in Vienna and Insieme
  in Innsbruck organised as a part of the annual
  charity event Licht ins Dunkel with Austrias
  Broadcasting Station ORF the collection of
  450.000 used mobile phones.
• In the social enterprise Insieme and D.R.Z. 20
  long-term unemployed people found work in
  sorting, testing and where necessary dismantling
  the phones.
• Over a ton of toxic batteries were salvaged from
  the waste stream

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• Good Practice recycling centre assistant
• EcoNets social enterprises employ and qualify
  long-term unemployed people, who may be addicts,
  ex-offenders or women who wants to go back to
  work after raising a family
• A potential for those target groups is the new
  profession recycling centre assistant. They
  shall support the employees at local recycling
  centres in sorting the incoming electronic waste.

• The course covers waste analysis and sorting,
  dealing safety with different type of material,
  first aid, maintenance of equipment,
  administration, computing and dealing with
  customers. The course ends up with a certificate.
• The first batch of 20 EcoNet trainees has
  already completed the three-week course.

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• Changes in behavior
• Relationship with the private sector is crucial.
• The social enterprises do not compete with each
  other. They are operating on a regional market.
  Good Practice-transfer.
• Networking is essential.
• Implementing of new co-operations, e.g. Public
  Social Private Partnerships.