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Public Responsibility and Resource-Efficiency 27 September 2012 Economic and Social Committee Vanya Veras Secretary General. History – the Health Aspect. The creation of settlements and increasing urbanisation led to concentrations of waste which nature could not process Unclean - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Public Responsibility and Resource-Efficiency
27 September 2012Economic and Social Committee
Vanya VerasSecretary General
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History – the Health Aspect
• The creation of settlements and increasing
urbanisation led to concentrations of waste
which nature could not process
• Unclean
• Spread of disease
• The public body was made responsible for
coordinating waste removal
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Responsibility
• Implementation of legislation – national – EU
• Targets to achieve as a locality and nation
• Reporting
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Service to All
• Charges to citizens – from the municipality on
equal and fair calculation basis
• Prices – maintained affordable
• Remote or difficult areas – obligation to
provide all waste services
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Access to Citizens
• First point of call for information is the
municipality
• In every Member State, citizens receive
information on waste collections via their
municipality: website, post, local newspaper,
flyers, flyers in utility bills
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Continuity
• People like to have a system they can
understand and become familiar with
• Change in waste collection methods are
difficult and costly to implement - retraining
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Evolution
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Material Resources
• Organisation of bins and collection
system/frequency, bring sites, facility
• Communication
• Incentives – PAYT (Pay As You Throw),
reduced collection charges
• Sanctions
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Energy Resources
• Waste-to-Energy (incineration or biogas)
• District heating
• Choice of power source
• Choice of most economically and
environmentally advantageous option can be
made at local and regional level
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Freedom of Choice
• Many different models across Europe – public
always remains finally responsible:
• UK: Outsources collection and treatment
via public procurement
• France: Treatment via PPP/Concession-
type contracts and public
• Sweden: mainly public
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Sustainable Economy and Environment
• Closing the materials and energy loop through Resource-
Efficiency
• Not a public or private issue = a survival issue:
– New extraction, transport costs
– Recovery of materials is local, affordable,
environmentally and economically sound
– Recovery of energy is local, affordable,
environmentally and economically sound
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Bridge
• Municipal Waste Europe members’ members
are in effect the bridge between the actors in
resource-efficiency and the public
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Experience Shows• Elefsina: door to door communication: in 3 years from
20% to 90% separate collection
• Pireaus: organisation of bins, collection vehicles, basic
information in media: in 3 months, from 10% recycling to
30% - in following 3 months, 50% increase in quality
• Lakonia: Direct citizen involvement with incentives –
bring site – 0 to 3000 households recycling in 7 months
(communication though local parliament, media)
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Thank you for your attention
Contact Details:
Vanya Veras, Secretary General
Municipal Waste Europe,
Rue des Deux Eglises 26/5, B-1000 Brussels.
Tel: +32 2 299 2145,
Email: [email protected]
www.municipalwasteeurope.eu
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