Implementation of Directive 94/62/EC: Management of Packaging Waste in

Valencia Region

INFRA 40962: ESKISEHIR- FEBRUARY 2010

ELVIRA MARCOSREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MINISTRY

GENERALITAT VALENCIANASPAIN

CONTENT

1. Packaging waste: EU, National & Regional legislation

2. The role of the public competent authorities

3. Waste management in Valencia Community

4. Packaging waste management in Valencia Community

5. Evolution of packaging waste collection

CASTELLON

VALENCIA

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SPAIN & VALENCIAGEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION

SURFACE: 23.255 Km2

Nº INHABITANTS: 4.806.908 (2006)

MUNICIPALITIES: 542

COMMUNITARY LEVEL

NATIONAL LEVEL

Transpose directives

Basic legislation

Matters that impact in more than one Region

REGIONAL LEVEL

Valencia Community Self-Governing Statute

LOCAL LEVEL

SCOPE OF THE LEGAL ENVIRONMETAL COMPETENCES

Spanish Constitution Act

Packaging waste legislation

EU Directive 94/62/EC

Aims to harmonise national measures in order to prevent or reduce the impact of packaging and packaging waste on the environment and

to ensure the functioning of the Internal Market.

It contains provisions on the prevention of packaging waste, on the re-use of packaging, and on the recovery and recycling of packaging waste

National legislation- Act 11/1997, 24th april-

(transposes Directive 94/62/EC)

- Royal Decree 252/2006- (revises the Act 11/1997)

- Regulation 782/98 of the Law 11/1997

OBJETIVE Prevent & reduce the impact of packaging and packaging waste on the environment and

ensure their right management during all their life cycle.

Establishes & Regulates the Collection Management Systems to fulfil the targets and objetives set in the Directive

Law 10/1998, 21th april, of Waste

OBJETIVETransposes the principles of the EU Waste legislation

Is a common law for all types of waste. It transfers competences & responsabilities of non hazardous waste, and urban waste mangement to Autonomous Communities

• Reduction of the quantity of packaging waste

Obligation of separate collection

• Promotion of packages reuse, recycling and recovery

Minimum targets to reach

• Improvement of the performance of all the parties in the packaging & packaging waste´s life cycle

Technical requirements for collection and treatment

• Establishment of systems to ensure that the return and/or collection of used packaging is effectively reused, recovered or recycled

Law 11/1997, 24th april

Main Objetives

Law & Directive Specific Targets

% by weight of packaging

waste Recovered/

incinerated

Recycled

Between 50/65% 65%

With a Min. of

15 % by weight for

each packaging

material

50 %

60%

60 %

By no later 30th June 2001

By no later 31th December 2008

Recycled

At least

% by weight of totality of packaging material contained

pack. waste

% by weight of packaging

waste Recovered/

incinerated

55/80%

Between 25/45%

% by weight of materials contained in packaging waste

22.5 %

15 %

Glass, Paper, CardBoard

Metal

Plastic

Wood

WHO IS AFFECTED BY THIS LAW?

Packaging producers and users of packaging (waste) are responsible for the correct management (and for its costs) of packaging generated/used.

Persons or companies which are responsable for placing in the market the packaging products

WHICH IS THE SCOPE OF THE LAW?Packaging includes products of any type used to contain, protect,

handle, distribute and present goods, at any point in the manufacturing, distribution and consumption chain (Act 11/1997).

Act 11/1997, 24th april

HOW TO FULFIL THE LAW? Producers can fulfil their obligations Individually or through an IMS:

A- INDIVIDUAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

(DEPOSIT & RETURN SYSTEM)

Each packaging producer enterprise creates its own packaging waste recycling system

B- WASTE PACKAGING INTEGRATED COLLECTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

The interested packaging producer enterprises can join this IMS, who is in charge of the desing and development of the waste packaging collection system and for the correct management of the

packaging waste: The packaging waste management will end once the packaging waste has been recovery according the applicable operations provided for it in Annex II.B to Directive 75/442/EEC.

Therefore, IMS are responsible for the fulfilment of the law obligations.

If the packaging enterprises choose this system, they get free from their law obligations.

Law 11/1997, 24th april

Green point Membership symbol

Regional Act 10/2000, 12th december of waste of Valencia Region

Establishes the legal regulation (requirements, targets and objetives, etc) for the production and the management of waste

in the 3 provinces of our territory.

Objective

Prevention and reduction of the amount of waste generated and their dangerous and negative effects on the environment, by developing,

planification, inspection & control instruments, to benefit self-sufficiency, security & efficiency of the waste management activities in

the territory

Regional legislation

The role of the administration

• Local administration

• Autonomous Government

• Central Authority

The role of the administration• Local Administration

- Provides services of collection, transport, storage, recovery and elimination of urban waste.

- These services can be provided by municipal groupings, consortiums and other associations

- Those municipalities of more than 5.000 inhabitants will be provided with separate collection systems of urban waste.

- To join an packaging IMS they must sign an adhesion Protocol to the framework convention subscribed by IMS & Regional Administration

Law 10/2000 on Waste in Valencia Region

The role of the administration• Autonomous Government

- Authorisation of management systems, both individual and collective- IMS.

- Co-ordination between IMS and local administration through framework convention

- To receive information from producers and IMS and exchange information with the central authority.

- Authorisation, monitoring, inspection.

- To provide recovery, recycling, waste management treatment plants.

Law 10/2000 on Waste in Valencia Region

The role of the administration• Central Authority

- To keep the registry of industrial establishments, packaging section (Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism)

- Exchange of information with the Autonomous Government, producers and IMS (Ministry of Environment)

- Establish databases on packaging and packaging waste to enable monitoring of the implementation of the objectives of the Directive (magnitude, characteristics and evolution of packaging and packaging waste flows, toxicity or danger of packaging materials)

- To supply information to the European Commission on quantities of packaging waste and meeting targets (Ministry of Environment)

Law 11/97, April 24th Packaging & Packaging Waste

Waste management in Valencia Community

The Integrated Waste Plan (IWP) is the main instrument for managing and co-ordinating all the tasks relating to waste in the Valencian Region, & to reach the targets established by the Law 10/2000 of waste.

• The IWP divides the Valencian Region into 18 zones, to achieve a better operativity in waste management.

• The IWP can be enforced directly or through the Zonal Plans and management projects for urban waste.

Waste management in Valencia Community

The Zonal Plans are made by the Environmental Regional Authority.

They establish the quantity of different centres for managing the urban waste in each Zone (landfills, treatment plants, etc.) to be self-sufficient.

The management body of each Zone Plan, a Consortium, is constituted of representatives of the Autonomous Government, the Provincial Government and the local authorities.

To be constituted, at least, 51% of the population must be represented.

Waste management in Valencia Community

• The management plans serve to develop the Zonal Plan, concerning those wastes within the public service

• They can come from private or public initiative

• The relevant authority chooses the best management plan

• The selected agent will enter into a contract with the consortium.

Waste management in Valencia Community

18 zones grouped in

11 zonal plans

2 with Management Area

15 waste treatment plants

15 landfills

11 temporary storage centres

13 bulk centres

405 drop-off centres

Packaging waste management plants of Valencia Community

At the moment there are 4 IMS for packaging waste authorised by the Environmental Regional Ministry in

our region, 2 of which deal with the collection

of household packaging waste, ECOEMBES & ECOVIDRIO

4 Household Packaging waste treatment plants:Alzira, Picasent,

Castellon, Benidorm & Villena

(only packaging transfer plant)

Producers can fulfil their obligations individually…

INDIVIDUAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

... or through one of the

INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS A system for collection, transport and treatment, by which the producers fulfil their obligations regarding the management of the packaging waste

they have placed on the market.

This system is financed by the producers in agreement with others economic operators/parties involved.

The IMS are non-profit making

They must submit an Annual report to the authority, certified by external auditor

The financing is guaranteed by the producers

Recovery

Recovered materials

Payment of treatment

costs

Payment of collection, transport and storage

costs

Sales of recovered materials

Contribution to the IMS

IMS Temporary storage

Drop-off centre

Producers

Houselhold

Collection &

transportDistributor

Professional users

Treatment plants

OPERATION OF THE PAKGAGING WASTE INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT

SYSTEM

- Each IMS must be authorised in the autonomous community where they want to operate.

- The IMS for packaging waste have to deal with the local authorities through a framework convention. The Co-ordination between them will be supervised by the Environmental Regional Ministry.

- Actually there are 4 IMS for packaging waste in our region.

- 2 specific for household packaging waste: ECOEMBES & ECOVIDRIO they have their head offices in Madrid & currently they operate in 17th autonomous communities of Spain.

- According to our regional law, the Regional government must provide the necessary waste treatment infrastructures for the right management of waste in our region, including the creation of the packaging treatment plants.

INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Obligations associated to IMSObligations associated to IMS Sing an adhesion contract with the IMS

ECOEMBES: paper/cardboard, plastics, briks, steel, aluminium, wood, ceramics & others packages.

ECOVIDRIO: glass (private agreement between parties) SIGRE: pharmaceutical packaging waste SIGFITO: fitosanitary packaging waste

Payment of the fee established for each package place in the market. Rate for the use of green point Art. 10 de la Ley 11/1997

Identification of the packaging products with the green point symbol (only for household IMS) Art. 7.2 del RD 782/1998

• They must submit a Packaging Declaration Annual report to the IMS

CONTRIBUTION FLOW

WASTE COLLECTION PARK

PAVEMENT COLLECTION APORTATION AREAS

HOUSEHOLD WASTE

PAPER/CARDBOARD GLASS PACK. WASTEORGANIC WASTE IN CONTAINERS

Residuos urbanos: 100%

Materia orgánica: 53%

Resto: 23%

Envases ligeros: 7%

Vidrio: 7%

P/C: 10%

Compost: 19%

Vertedero: 36%

Materiales recuperados: 22%

Rejection: 1%

Rejection : 12%

INTEGRATED WASTE PLANT OF VALENCIAN REGIONAlternative 1. Hypothesis of citiziens participation of

100%

INTEGRATED WASTE PLANT OF VALENCIAN REGIONAlternative 1. Hypothesis of citiziens participation of

100%

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RestoVidrioEnvases ligeros

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Planta recuperación materia inorgánica

Planta selección envases ligeros

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PAVEMENT COLLECTION

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TREATMENT PLANTS

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INTEGRATED WASTE PLANT OF VALENCIAN REGIONAlternative of selective collection & urban waste

treatment

INTEGRATED WASTE PLANT OF VALENCIAN REGIONAlternative of selective collection & urban waste

treatment

VAERSA is a public company, with a convention with the Generalitat Valenciana (Valencian Government), to provide services of consultancy,

development and implementation of works in tasks related to environment, agriculture and fishing.

Services:

- Agricultural and rural - Education and awareness- Forestry- Training and volunteers- Engineering and drawing up of projects- Environment and landscape Improvement- Environmental leisure- Waste- Other works and infrastructures

WASTE DEPARTMENT

- Technical assistance- Construction, sealed and restored landfills- Design and construction of drop off centres- Design, construction and management of waste treatment plants. 4 HOUSEHOLD PACKAGING TREATMENT PLANTS IN VALENCIA REGION- Management of mercury waste:

button cells and mercury amalgam, lamps and fluorescents tubes.- Hazardous waste emergency removal- Waste water reuse- Principal constructions- Works under construction

http://www.vaersa.com/servicios/peliculas/envases.swf

- The managers in charge of the waste packaging treatment plants, must adapt them to the technical requirements and conditions established in the related legislation.

- A co-ordination between the different IMS, the managers of the treatment plants & the local authorities, by the Regional Government is needed, in order to have a satisfactory economic compensation between them, as a result of their respective tasks and for the correct management and treatment of the packaging waste.

- After the packaging waste is treated in the packaging treatment plants, the recovered materials are temporary storage & classified into different types. Finally sent to the corresponding recovery plants for their right and final treatment.

MANAGEMENT TREATMENT PLANTS

RATIOS & COSTS CONTAINERS

COST CONT. = 600 €

YEAR 2000 - 786 cont.= 471.600 €

YEAR 2007 - 10.187 cont.= 6.112.200 €

HOUSEHOLD WASTE

PAPER/CARDBOARD GLASS PACK. WASTE

Ratio/ inh. 1 / 421

Ratio/ inh. 1 / 476

Ratio/ inh. 1 / 299

COST CONT. = 500 €

YEAR 1998 - 6.238 cont.= 3.119.000 €

YEAR 2007 - 16.218 cont.= 8.109.000 €

COST CONT. = 600 €

YEAR 1998 - 3.758 cont.= 2.254.800 €

YEAR 2007 - 11.391 cont.= 6.834.600 €

1.998 1.999 2.000 2.001 2.002 2.003 2.004 2.005 2.006 2.007 2.008Castellón 0 0 0 0 301 1.182 1.170 1.283 1.340 1.405 1.501Valencia 0 0 786 3.230 3.230 3.801 3.801 4.342 4.683 4.968 6.189Alicante 0 0 0 510 2.645 3.258 3.249 3.496 3.664 3.814 4.272Total 0 0 786 3.740 6.176 8.241 8.220 9.121 9.687 10.187 11.962

1.998 1.999 2.000 2.001 2.002 2.003 2.004 2.005 2.006 2.007 2.008Castellón 0 0 0 0 16.900 989.400 1.592.860 1.994.110 2.286.020 3.445.430 7.026.280 17.351.000Valencia 0 0 735.700 3.481.950 5.968.890 7.853.105 9.136.500 10.651.150 13.008.332 16.839.340 20.294.620 87.969.587Alicante 0 0 0 0 792.351 3.113.630 5.627.050 5.980.800 7.530.800 9.231.191 11.756.960 44.032.782Total 0 0 735.700 3.481.950 6.778.141 11.956.135 16.356.410 18.626.060 22.825.152 29.515.961 39.077.860 149.353.369

EVOLUCIÓN PARQUE DE CONTENEDORES ENVASES LIGEROS

RECOGIDA SELECTIVA ENVASES LIGEROS

EVOLUTION OF PACKAGING WASTE COLLECTION IN VALENCIA REGION

COMPARITION OF PACKAGING WASTE COLLECTION BEETWEN VALENCIA REGION &

SPAIN

1.998 1.999 2.000 2.001 2.002 2.003 2.004 2.005 2.006 2.007 2.008Castellón 853 879 1.025 1.018 1.122 1.358 1.384 1.538 1.732 1.817 2.073Valencia 2.793 3.251 3.612 4.279 3.610 4.582 5.189 5.933 6.304 7.035 7.524Alicante 2.592 2.828 3.130 3.468 4.319 4.319 4.554 5.043 6.062 7.366 7.479Total 6.238 6.958 7.767 8.765 9.051 10.259 11.127 12.514 14.098 16.218 17.076

1.998 1.999 2.000 2.001 2.002 2.003 2.004 2.005 2.006 2.007 2.008Castellón 5.218.520 5.054.854 3.429.926 3.754.810 4.169.630 4.848.290 4.644.950 4.964.990 5.285.190 6.188.360 7.160.200 54.719.720Valencia 11.960.557 13.924.501 14.869.714 15.221.050 17.493.372 19.657.937 23.081.208 25.723.554 29.215.116 33.963.949 37.994.400 243.105.358Alicante 15.728.528 16.212.491 16.389.214 17.870.135 19.026.690 20.785.380 20.940.000 22.916.020 25.400.430 30.416.920 34.269.300 239.955.108Total 32.907.605 35.191.846 34.688.854 36.845.995 40.689.692 45.291.607 48.666.158 53.604.564 59.900.736 70.569.229 79.423.900 537.780.186

EVOLUCIÓN PARQUE DE CONTENEDORES VIDRIO

RECOGIDA SELECTIVA VIDRIO

EVOLUTION OF GLASS COLLECTION IN VALENCIA REGION

EVOLUTION OF GLASS PACKAGING WASTE

COLLECTION IN SPAIN

2001-2008

GREEN POINTFEE

RATES 20092010

1.998 1.999 2.000 2.001 2.002 2.003 2.004 2.005 2.006 2.007 2.008Castellón 321 446 857 1.143 1.143 1.050 1.139 1.367 1.431 1.530 1.633Valencia 2.162 3.665 4.333 5.050 5.196 5.358 5.131 5.619 5.736 6.010 6.540Alicante 1.275 1.495 2.285 2.779 2.779 2.794 2.794 3.312 3.378 3.851 4.292Total 3.758 5.606 7.475 8.972 9.118 9.202 9.064 10.298 10.545 11.391 12.465

1.998 1.999 2.000 2.001 2.002 2.003 2.004 2.005 2.006 2.007 2.008Castellón 1.079.584 2.140.800 2.960.538 2.674.210 3.764.579 3.456.244 3.629.056 3.810.509 4.001.034 4.201.086 4.411.140 36.128.782Valencia 10.377.600 19.031.862 19.490.136 22.018.527 0 28.457.526 29.880.402 31.374.422 32.943.144 34.590.301 36.319.816 264.483.736Alicante 6.120.000 7.776.081 7.674.752 9.277.978 9.759.109 11.991.188 12.590.747 13.220.285 13.881.299 14.575.364 15.304.132 122.170.935Total 17.577.184 28.948.743 30.125.426 33.970.715 38.307.076 43.904.958 46.100.206 48.405.216 50.825.477 53.366.751 56.035.088 447.566.840

EVOLUCIÓN PARQUE DE CONTENEDORES PAPEL

RECOGIDA SELECTIVA PAPEL

EVOLUCIÓN CONTENEDOR AZUL

02.0004.0006.000

8.00010.00012.000

PAPEL/CARTÓN RECUPERADO

010.000.00020.000.00030.000.00040.000.00050.000.00060.000.000

KG

EVOLUTION OF PAPER & CARDBOARD COLLECTION IN VALENCIA REGION

1.998 1.999 2.000 2.001 2.002 2.003 2.004 2.005 2.006 2.007 2.008Castellón 0 0 0 0 17.336 11.505 14.708 22.837 25.052 30.464 36.773 158.675Valencia 0 0 0 0 67.733 57.646 84.157 124.857 136.592 169.557 196.098 836.640Alicante 0 0 0 0 23.681 26.250 34.391 58.982 79.544 85.084 96.223 404.155Total 0 0 0 0 108.750 95.401 133.256 206.676 241.188 285.105 329.094 1.399.470

1.998 1.999 2.000 2.001 2.002 2.003 2.004 2.005 2.006 2.007 2.008Castellón 0 0 0 0 0 24.788 72.033 72.795 84.681 91.093 96.373 441.763Valencia 0 0 0 0 0 39.220 106.497 147.829 246.027 256.580 235.060 1.031.213Alicante 0 0 0 0 0 8.460 41.612 58.401 72.115 77.780 80.925 339.293Total 0 0 0 0 0 72.468 220.142 279.025 402.823 425.453 412.358 1.812.269

RECOGIDA SELECTIVA ENVASES DE MEDICAMENTOS

RECOGIDA SELECTIVA ENVASES DE FITOSANITARIOS

EVOLUTION OF MEDICINS & FITOSANITARY COLLECTION IN VALENCIA REGION

CITIZEN AWARENESSThe success of separate waste collection requires above all a general public commitment. The

regional environmental ministry in collaboration with the IMS, promote regional & local communication campaigns and educational activities.

Publicity campaigns, conferences, school seminars and university courses are some of the tools used to widen public awareness on the issues related to waste recycling and recovery.

CHALLENGES TO BE ACHIEVED

To fully achieve the targets set by the European and Spanish legislations a number of focus areas must be achieved.

IMPROVEMENT IN COLLECTION QUALITY

The quality of collected material is fundamental, both for collection costs and for recycling .

DEVELOPING COLLABORATION WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIESAND WASTE MANAGEMENT COMPANIES

Building a shared path towards optimized waste management and spreading best practices in waste collection management.

PROMOTION OF THE RECYCLING MARKET

Promote between the consumers to pay particular attention to the market of recycled materials and to the products from recycling, and support programs

for a deeper knowledge of recycled products among citizens and municipalities.

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