03/25/22 1 Republic of Slovenia – Ministry for Environment and Spatial Planning Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia PACKAGING WASTE PACKAGING WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN SLOVENIA IN SLOVENIA Eva Lipovž-Ančik, M.Sc. Environmental Agency of Republic of Slovenia Waste Management Section 22. July 2009, Sofia (BG) TAIEX – Infra 32644
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Republic of Slovenia – Ministry for Environment and Spatial Planning
Establishment of a specific company (collection, treatment – financed by the producers)
Easier to achieve recycling/prevention targets
Responsibilities of authorities: establishment of regulatory framework for collection & treatment and for control
Negative side = Parallel collection schemes
Environmental taxes and fees
Effective and economic instruments – high costs for disposing waste
Supplement the legislative framework set at national level
If too high => possible illegal and uncontrolled waste disposal
Before their introduction => cost-benefit analysis based on environmental and economical terms should be done
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NATIONAL LEGISLATION ON PACKAGING AND PACKAGING WASTE
The Rules on Handling Packaging and Packaging Waste (OG RS 104/00) target recovery shares (end of 2007):
min. 50% of total recovery
min. 25% of total recycling (15% for each packaging material)
The Operational Programme for the Management of Packaging and Packaging Waste for 2002-2007 Period (OG RS 29/02) a step-by-step plan for achieving recovery targets
The Decree on Environmental Tax on the Generation of Packaging Waste (OG RS 32/06, 65/06 and 78/08)
The Decree on the Management of Packaging and Packaging Waste (OG RS 84/06, 106/06 and 110/07)
target recovery shares (end of 2012):min. 60 % of total recovery min. 55 % and max 80% of total recycling
SLOVENIA: PRODUCER-RESPONSIBILITY PACKAGING WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Change in thinking!
Environmental tax for packaging/packed goods placed on Slovenian market (CORS)
Options: non-municipal PW => joining the trade company or developing an individual system (license form EARS!) municipal PW => joining the trade company < 15.000 kg of total PW => nothing (< 5.000 kg) or annual statement about quantity of all PW produced
Annual reporting on quantities to EARS trade company – for all its members individual system – by itself
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Trade Company for Managing Packaging Waste (system/scheme for managing PW)
Obligations: collecting, storing, sorting, recovery/disposal achieving target shares of recovery/recycling for total PW and for each packaging material annual reporting to EARS for each member
Costs: depending on packaging material and type of packaging 30-75 EUR/ton ?!
Current Trade Companies:
Ekodin
Surovina
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Individual System for Managing Packaging Waste
Non-municipal packaging waste
License from EARS (valid for 5 years)
Obligations: meeting target shares of recovery by themselves or by handing PW over to the recyclers annual reporting to EARS
Main problem: wooden packaging (pallets) – ensuring 15% recycling
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Municipal Packaging Waste
municipal packaging waste = PW from households + similar PW (restaurants, schools, …)
Public Waste Services: organized and supervised by municipalities (differences!)
separately collected fractions of PW must be handed over to trade companies
shares of quantities handed over to trade companies defined by the Environmental Ministry for each trade company
annual reporting to EARS
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Quantities of Packaging Waste Produced (t)(Source: http://kazalci.arso.gov.si )
Slovenian average of produced packaging waste ~ 100 kg/citizen
(EU average ~ 172 kg/citizen)
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Quantities of Recovered Packaging Waste (t)(Source: http://kazalci.arso.gov.si )
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Total recovery
12.252
21.396
21.445
69.824
79.678
94.692
Share of recovery
8 % 12 % 13 % 43 % 47 % 47 %
Target share 2007
min. 50 %
Target share 2012
min. 60 %
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Problems from the Field
Classification of pack. waste (composite packaging, hazardous PW)
Responsibility of final user (!) to empty PW properly (hazardous PW)
Reporting not necessary if <15.000 kgs and/or a member of a trade company
Responsibility of producers of packaging/ pack. waste for all types of PW (tertiary or transport packaging!)
Differences among trade companies (prices, flexibility)
More than one trade company – how to define shares of municipal PW
Achieving recycling targets as individual system (wooden PW - R1 is not recycling)
Environmental tax – grave-side lights
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Latest Problems from the Field…
collapse of waste-market: trade companies – obliged or not to collect municipal PW from public waste services (at their side)?! extra-charging by trade companies for transport of PW from final users to collecting centers (should be in-calculated into general costs for joining a system) will collapse also the system of PWM schemes?!
pilot-project with municipal PW: yellow bags plastics, metals, tetra-packs regular collection (1x/week) by local public waste service – no extra costs! ? for urban areas (more appropriate for individual houses - control)
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CONCLUSIONS
Slovenia has a producer-responsibility packaging waste management system since 2002, and it was estimated to become fully active in ten years.
The target recovery shares of total packaging waste from Slovenian and EU packaging waste legislation were not yet met in any one year but are growing.
To reach better shares of recovery and handling packaging waste in general, more intense and constant involvement of the public is needed what should be achieved through different projects of education on this topic.