Waste Management

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Waste Management
Project Clean Waters Healthy People

• Solutions for Local Waste Management

Johanna Leutgöb "die umweltberatung"
"eco-counselling"
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Personal introduction Johanna Leutgöb

• Consultant in waste management and protection of
  resources
• international projects with Slovakia, Biowaste
  conferences in Czech Republic, Austria
• waste prevention projects
• consulting of companies
• Experience in municipal waste management (working
  for 10 years in a waste union)
• implementation of separate collection of
  recyclables, waste electrical equipment, biowaste
• waste prevention projects
• Public relations
• experience in composting implementation of
  decentralized biowaste management in Lower
  Austria
• home composting
• farming composting
• public relations and awareness raising

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Status quo
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Status quo

• Health problems
• Environmental problems
• Current practice is legally not compliant
• Loss of farm-fertilizer (manure is a very
  valuable fertilizer)
• ? Something has to be done!

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Status quo Positive aspects

• People collect waste
• People deliver it to the dump
• Waste accumulation is low(without manure)
• Good education of people
• In many communes there are sites which are
  suitable as waste collection points
• ? positive preconditions

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Waste composition
Manure is farm fertilizer, not waste
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Manure on the landfill?

• Transport of manure to landfills very expensive
• Organic waste on landfill causes methane
  emissions dangerous for the climate
  (CO2-equivalent 25)
• Legally not possibleDue to the National Waste
  Management Plan and Landfill Directive the
  organic fraction has to be reduced.

? manure on the
landfill is no solution !
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Improvement 1
manure management collection site

• Using manure as a farm fertilizer solves main
  problems in waste management
• instead of delivering manure to the dump, it is
  used as farm fertilizer in agriculture

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Improv. 1
manure management collection site
Bio waste management

• Gospodoria
• application of manure directly on the fields
• composting of manure and garden waste
• cooperations between gospodarias are possible
• Collection of manure in cooperation with a big
  farm
• application directly on the fields and/or
• farm composting at a decentralized composting
  plant in the commune
• commune organizes the cooperation

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Improv. 1 Communal collection site

• Example from Austria

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Advantage of Improvement 1

• people deliver waste by themselvesas they are
  used to(e.g. with horse carriages)
• low collection costs within the commune/village
• manure is used as farm fertilizer

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Improvement 1
manure management collection site

• Investment
• collection site
• Running costs
• transport from waste to the transfer station
• operating costs of collection site
• Revenues
• maybe some revenues by selling recyclables
• Financing
• investments funding?
• running costs small fee, internal labour

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Improvement 2
Pick up system of residual waste

• collection-station, utilization of manure
• Waste collection is organized by the commune
  (pick-up system)
• People do not deliver residual waste
• Can be done in a simple way, even with horse
  carriages
• Can be run at very low costs
• Bag-system
• more expensive than Improvement 1

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Improvement 3 Full service

• Manure management
• Collection site
• Garbage collection from each household by a
  company
• Pick up system (possible also for paper, bio
  waste,..)
• Bag or container system for residual waste
• Collection points in the villages for different
  waste fractions like glass, metal

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Austria
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