THE LITHUANIAN ASSOCIATION OF REGIONAL WASTE MANAGEMENT CENTRES

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THE LITHUANIAN ASSOCIATION OF REGIONAL WASTE
MANAGEMENT CENTRES

• Juozas Jankevicius
• 2008

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THE LITHUANIAN ASSOCIATION OF REGIONAL WASTE
MANAGEMENT CENTRES (RATCA)

• The Association of Regional Waste Management
  Centres of Lithuania (RATCA) was established on
  26 October, 2005

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The founders of RATCA are

• iauliai Regional Waste Management Centre
• Utena Regional Waste Management Centre
• Marijampole Regional Waste Management Centre
• Taurage Regional Waste Management Centre

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RATCA

• All 10 Centres are the members of the RATCA at
  present
• Vilnius Regional Waste Management Centre entered
  the RATCA on 5 May, 2007
• It was the last Centre which became the member of
  RATCA

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Administration

• The head of RATCA is the President
• RATCA has the finansier and the secretary
• For all of them this work is volunteer work

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The aims of RATCA

• To participate in the development of Regional
  waste management systems in Lithuania
• To initiate the creation of the legislation for
  the effective working of the regional waste
  management systems in Lithuania
• To participate in the creation of the legislation
  in the waste management sphere

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The aims of RATCA

• To collaborate in proffesional sphere,
  interchange of expierence, cooperate recources
  for implementation collective projects
• To collaborate with similar Lithuanian and
  foreign associations.

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RATCA participated

• In preparing the Law on the Change of the Waste
  Management Law
• In preparing the National Strategic Waste
  Management Plan
• In preparing the National Investment Program for
  the Year 2007-2013
• In preparing the Waste Incineration Feasibility
  Study

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RATCA participated

• In RECO (Regional Cooperation in Waste
  Management) project. The participants of this
  project Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Poland,
  Finland, Sweden.
• Sweden was the main fundator of this project

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RATCA collaborates with

• Association Infobalt EPA
• Association aliasis takas (Green Point)
• LKATA (The Lithuanian Communal Services and Waste
  Management Association)
• LASUA (Latvian Association of Waste Management
  Companies)

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ACTIVITY

• Seminars
• Several seminars
• Two international
• Were discussed actual questions
• Companies made presentations of their production

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ACTIVITY

• Trips
• Buisiness trip to Poland and Germany in 2006
• Company Shaffer

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ACTIVITY

• Sport competition
• Yearly summer sport competition
• Participants teams from every Regional Centre,
  Ministry of Environment and Environmental
  Projects Management Agency
• The aim encourage cooperation between Regional
  Centres, exchange of expierence

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ACTIVITY

• Cultural festival
• Will take place on 14-15 February

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WASTE GENERATION IN LITHUANIA

• 5,7 mln tons per 2006
• 4,4 mln tons industrial waste
• 0,112 mln tons hazardous waste
• 1,3 mln tons municipal waste
• (392 kg/person per year)
• 86 municipal waste were landfilled

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WASTE GENERATION IN LITHUANIA

• 0,817 mln tons construction and demolition waste
  per 2006
• 0,284 mln tons packaking waste per 2006
• 1400 tons medical waste per 2006
• 20 000 tons tyres waste per 2006
• 22 000 tons electrical and electronic equipment
  waste per 2006.

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LANDFILLS

• 4 new regional landfills started operating in
  iauliai, Vilnius, Alytus and Klaipeda in 2007
• 11 regional landfills in Lithuania are planned
• According to the National Strategic Waste
  Management Plan all of old landfills must be
  closed till 2012.

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FEES

• Waste management charge is planned be instituted
  in all regions of Lithuania (except Utena and
  Marijampole)
• Utena and Marijampole are planning to work with
  the landfill fee
• iauliai Region is the first region where the
  waste management charge was instituted

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NATIONAL WASTE LEGISLATION

• Environmental Protection Law, passed by the
  Parliament in 1992 and amended in 1996.
• The Law places the main responsibility for
  environmental protection on the Ministry of
  Environment.
• The Law states that the functions of other
  national institutions in environmental protection
  sector are defined by other laws and statutes of
  said institutions.

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NATIONAL WASTE LEGISLATION

• Waste Management Law was adopted by the
  Parliament in 1998.
• Revised document transposed provisions of Waste
  and Hazardous Waste Directives and came into
  force from January 2003.
• The Law provides for the basic requirements for
  waste prevention, recording, collection, storage,
  transportation, recovery, disposal as well as for
  the principles of organization and planning of
  waste management systems.

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National Strategic Waste Management Plan

• National Strategic Waste Management Plan adopted
  by a resolution of Lithuanian Government Nr.1224
  of October 2007
• The strategic Plan sets a target by the year 2009
  to expand public municipal waste management
  service so it is used by at least 95?

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National Strategic Waste Management Plan sets
targets

• The Plan requires from municipalities to organize
  collection of secondary resources
• The Plan requires
• - to equip 1 containers site for every 600
  inhabitants in cities
• - to equip 1 containers site for every 800
  inhabitants in other towns
• - to equip 1 containers site in every small
  towns, individual homes areas, collective
  gardens, garages communities.

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National Strategic Waste Management Plan sets
targets

• To equip 1 Bulky Waste Site for every 50000
  inhabitants till 2009.

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Biodegradable waste management targets

• The Plan establishes targets for reduction of
  landfilled biodegradable waste, which shall not
  exceed the following rate of waste landfilled in
  2000
• - 75 by 2010
• - 50 by 2013
• - 35 by 2020.

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Packaging waste management targets

• The Plan sets a targets
• - to ensure organizational and technical
  conditions for collection and processing not
  exceed 50 of packaging till 2010.
• - to ensure reusing not exceed 52 of packaging
  til 2010.

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Packaging waste management targets

• Till 2013 to ensure organizational and technical
  conditions for collection and processing not
  exceed 55 of packaging by individual materials
  it comprise for
• - Glass 60
• - Paper and cardboard 60
• - Plastics 22,5
• - Metal 50
• - Wood 15

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Electrical and electronic equipment waste (EEW)
management targets

• Reach better results in collection and reusing of
  EEW
• To ensure collection of EEW not exceed
• 4 kg/person per year till 2008.

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PROBLEMS

• Plenty of politics and other interests
• Uncoordinated legislation base
• Lack of finances for projects implementation
• Public education and low public understanding

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Thank you for your attention