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Producer responsibility and supplementary transport of municipal packaging waste : case: Päijät-Häme waste management region
At the moment municipalities are responsible for management of the packaging waste generated in households. When the producer responsibility is enforced, responsibility for the waste management and the associated costs of the packaging waste is transferred to producers. Producers are obligated to arrange a regional network of reception points for inhabitants from the beginning of 2016 and regional terminals for the municipal packaging waste collected in properties have to be operational by May 2015. Municipalities may regulate about the reception and the treatment point of the packaging waste if the organisation of the transport is ensured by the municipality. The strict interpretation of transport does not include storage in transit and transloading, but in order to efficiently transport packaging waste that should be possible. If a municipality sorts packaging materials from mixed waste and energy waste, it is not transport of packaging waste and therefore separated cardboard, plastic, metal or glass does not have to be delivered to the producer. The number of regional collection points will most likely increase for cardboard and decrease for glass and metal in the Päijät-Häme region, and collection points may centralise to urban areas. According to this study the waste carriers are satisfied with the current waste management regulations and confident about reaching a higher recycling level of packaging waste in the future and making the service accessible all inhabitants in the region, whereas Päijät-Häme Waste Management Ltd does not rely as much on the current sorting system and functionality of the market. This study was conducted in connection with the preparation of revision of the Päijät-Häme regional waste management regulations. Interviews, questionnaires and workshops of local and national actors were used as material. Realistic options would be to continue with the current sorting instructions or to require properties with at least 10 households to collect glass and metal, in addition to cardboard. ...
Producer responsibility and supplementary transport of municipal packaging waste : case: Päijät-Häme waste management region
At the moment municipalities are responsible for management of the packaging waste generated in households. When the producer responsibility is enforced, responsibility for the waste management and the associated costs of the packaging waste is transferred to producers. Producers are obligated to arrange a regional network of reception points for inhabitants from the beginning of 2016 and regional terminals for the municipal packaging waste collected in properties have to be operational by May 2015. Municipalities may regulate about the reception and the treatment point of the packaging waste if the organisation of the transport is ensured by the municipality. The strict interpretation of transport does not include storage in transit and transloading, but in order to efficiently transport packaging waste that should be possible. If a municipality sorts packaging materials from mixed waste and energy waste, it is not transport of packaging waste and therefore separated cardboard, plastic, metal or glass does not have to be delivered to the producer. The number of regional collection points will most likely increase for cardboard and decrease for glass and metal in the Päijät-Häme region, and collection points may centralise to urban areas. According to this study the waste carriers are satisfied with the current waste management regulations and confident about reaching a higher recycling level of packaging waste in the future and making the service accessible all inhabitants in the region, whereas Päijät-Häme Waste Management Ltd does not rely as much on the current sorting system and functionality of the market. This study was conducted in connection with the preparation of revision of the Päijät-Häme regional waste management regulations. Interviews, questionnaires and workshops of local and national actors were used as material. Realistic options would be to continue with the current sorting instructions or to require properties with at least 10 households to collect glass and metal, in addition to cardboard. ...
Producer responsibility and supplementary transport of municipal packaging waste : case: Päijät-Häme waste management region
Yrjölä, Tiia (author) / Lahden ammattikorkeakoulu
2014-01-01
10024/66388
Theses
Electronic Resource
English
jätehuolto , Degree Programme in Environmental Technology (ylempi AMK) , jätelaki , jätteiden lajittelu , tuottajavastuu , waste act , yhdyskuntajätteet , waste management , pakkausjätteet , sorting of waste , Päijät-Häme , municipal waste , kuljetus , packaging waste , fi=Energia- ja ympäristötekniikka|sv=Energi- och miljöteknik|en=Energy and Enviromental Engineering| , producer responsibility
DDC:
710
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