Waste Management Situation in Tallinn City

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Waste Management Situation in Tallinn City  

• Environment Department of Tallinn City

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• Tallinn covers a territory of 158 km² and there
  are about 400 000 inhabitants (in Estonia
  1,4 million)
• Waste management in Tallinn is administrated by
  the Environment Department, which
• - develops waste management plans
• - issues waste management procedures and
  supervises their implementation
• - arranges informational and educational work
  in the field of waste management within Tallinn
  
• - makes conditions to hazardous waste licences
  and waste management permits

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• - arranges procurements for collection and
  transportation
• of municipal waste and hazardous waste
  generated in housekeeping
• - co-ordinates remidation of polluted soil
• - makes conditions to construction projects and
  detail plans
• The Waste Management Plan of Tallinn was
  adopted in 2001
• The last version of Waste Management Regulation
  of Tallinn was adopted in 2004
• Both of them will be updated in 2005 and 2006

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• Total amount of waste landfilled in Tallinn
  landfill 2004 was 177,0 thousand tons
• Total amount of demolition and construction
  waste received in landfills-recycling centres in
  2003 was 525,0 thousand tons
• All waste transportation and collection
  companies are private
• There are not waste incineration facilities in
  Tallinn and Estonia

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• In July 2003 the old landfill which was used for
  30 years was closed down
• At the same time the new landfill near Tallinn
  was launched, which fulfils all the requirements
  of the EU landfill directives
• - new landfill with designed area of 67 hectares
  is
• situated 20 km from Tallinn and is planned
  for 40
• years
• - landfill includes open air composting site for
  garden
• and food waste
• The landfill is owned by Tallinn City (35) and
  Cleanaway (65) waste management company

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• In July 2003 a sorting plant for municipal waste
  with projected processing capacity of 500 tons
  per day was launced and it separates
  approximately 20 per cent of recyclable waste
• There are two demolition and construction
  landfills-recycling centres in Tallinn. The first
  one is located in an old clay mining district and
  the other one in an old limestone mining district
  
• These landfills-recycling centres recycle
  approximately 31 of the total amount of received
  demolition and construction waste

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• There are 6 petrol stations and 9 stationary
  collection points in Tallinn where inhabitants
  can dispose of their hazardous waste
  (oils, paints, solvents, luminescence lamps,
  batteries, medicines)
• In addition to 19 battery boxes we already have
  in town, 100 more have been installed
  this year, most of them in schools and
  kindergartens
• The maintenance and service is financed by the
  Environment Department

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• Enterprises can deliver their hazardous waste to
  the Tallinn
• Hazardous Waste Transfer Station
• In 2004 the first Recycling Center was opened,
  where citizens can bring and also buy used
  clothes, furniture, toys, books, electronic
  equipment. This center accepts also hazardous
  waste and recyclables from inhabitants
• From July 2005 the packaging collection system
  was introduced

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• In October 2005 a composting site for garden
  waste will be opened
• In August this year 3 WEEE collection points were
  opened
• Tallinn City Government is planning to build
• - 3-4 composting sites for garden waste
• - 4 waste collection station (recyclable,
  WEEE and
• hazardous waste)
• In the beginning of 2006 the so-called regulated
  municipal waste transport system will be
  implemented. Tallinn will be divided into 33
  districts and public procurements will be
  arranged to serve every district

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• According to Waste Management Regulation it is
  obligated to collect separately
• - paper and cardboard from households (5 or
  more
• apartments in house)
• - paper and cardboard, organic waste and
  wood from
• enterprises and offices if generation such
  waste is
• 50 kg or more per week
• We are also planning to collect organic waste
  from households (10 or more apartments in a
  house)

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Sorting facility of municipal waste
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Bin for recycleable waste
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Demolition and construction waste
landfill-recycling center
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Construction of Tallinn landfill
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