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Author: Luminita Stefanescu Waste Department ICIM Bucharest

Workshop on waste data collection system for EIONET reprezentatives from West Balcans 4 May 2006 - Zagreb, Croatia WASTE STATISTICS IN ROMANIA. Author: Luminita Stefanescu Waste Department ICIM Bucharest. Main reasons for waste statistics.

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Author: Luminita Stefanescu Waste Department ICIM Bucharest

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  1. Workshop on waste data collection system for EIONET reprezentatives from West Balcans 4 May 2006 - Zagreb, Croatia WASTE STATISTICS IN ROMANIA Author: Luminita Stefanescu Waste Department ICIM Bucharest

  2. Main reasons for waste statistics • Identify types/quantities of generated waste, recycling possibilities and final disposal practices • Evaluate and monitor evolution of generated waste and changes in recycling /reuse processes • Easy decision making in environmental protection (strategy & plan for waste management) • Disseminate information on waste management • Assure comparability of waste data reported to European and international authorities

  3. European legislationsupporting the waste statistics TECHNICAL ACTS • Waste Framework Directive 75/442/EEC • Council Decision 91/689/EEC on Hazardous Waste • The European waste catalogue and hazardous waste list - valid from 01.01.2002 and based on: - Commision Decision 2000/532/EC as amended by: - Commision Decision 2000/118/EC - Commision Decision 2000/119/EC

  4. European legislationsupporting the waste statistics STATISTICAL ACTS • Regulation (EC) no. 2150/2004 on Waste Statistics • Common Questionnaire Eurostat/OECD/EEA on the state of environment - section Waste

  5. National legislationsupporting the Romanian waste statistics • Environmental Protection Law • Law of Waste • Governmental Decision on waste reporting and adoption of European Waste Codification GD 155/1999 - introduction of E.W.Catalogue GD 856/2002 - introduction of E.W.List • Law for Public Statistics • National Classification of Economic Activities -NACE

  6. Other national regulations containing waste reporting obligations • Regulations on specific waste flows: • On packaging • On batteries and accumulators • On waste oils • On PCB/PCT control and management • On electric/electronic equipment waste • All these acts stipulate penalties in case of refusal or delay of waste data reporting and in case of wrong /incomplete data transmission

  7. Data sources and reporting obligations Who has to register and report waste data? • Generators of industrial waste • Companies managing municipal waste • Waste recyclers • Waste treatment facilities • Collection and transport authorized companies • Treatment facilities (mechanic – biological treatment) • Incinerators • Landfills, other disposal sites

  8. Special conditions for data collection • Hazardous waste are reported together with other waste, except medical waste • Medical waste are reported separately by Ministry of Health and its units • Military waste are reported to a separate database

  9. How waste data are collected ? • Waste data are collected annually • Waste data collection are based on questionnaires • Questionnaires have been gradually enlarged and improved to answer to all reporting requirements • Types of questionnaires used in 2004: • AS-GD-PRODDES • AS-GD-MUN • AS-GD-TRAT

  10. Questionnaire AS - GD - PRODDES • For waste producers (from industry, agriculture, services, recycling companies) • Comprises 4 chapters asking about: • Waste generated, recovered and disposed (waste types and quantities) • Thermal treatment of waste in producers own facilities • Landfilling of waste in producers own deposits • Spending and costs of waste management

  11. Questionnaire AS - GD - MUN • For municipalities or sanitation companies • Comprises chapters asking about : • Collection, recycling and disposal of municipal waste • Characteristics of sanitation services • Endowment of sanitation companies • Refers also to: • Municipal waste composition • Taxes for collection and disposal

  12. Questionnaire AS - GD - TRAT • For companies- owners of facilities for waste treatment • It excludes entities that use their own facilities to treat their waste • Comprises 3 chapters asking about: • Composting plants • Thermal treatment installations • Landfills

  13. Statistical community • Comprises 2 groups: - Exhaustively investigated units - Selectively investigated units • Criteria for including units into groups: - Relevance in terms of waste management (as waste producers or waste managers) - Number of employees (from 1 to over 500)

  14. Classification and terminology used • Romanian statistical register of economic entities - REGIS • Classification of economic activities – NACE • European List of Waste • Codes of recovery and disposal operations, as established by Waste Framework Directive

  15. How the system works? • Questionnaires are sent by local EPA-s to designated entities within each county • Filled in questionnaires come back to EPA; data are introduced in counties databases • All EPA-s send electronically their data to the National waste database • ICIM/NEPA verifies/ validate received data • ICIM/NEPA elaborates national reports • Reports are sent to MoE and Statistical Institute and - at request - to international bodies

  16. Information Flow Ind. waste Municipalities Recyclers Treatment generators operators Local EPA ICIM/ NEPA MoE Statistical Institute Dissemination (JQ, BCS)

  17. Roles and responsibilities of “main actors” • MoEis responsible for waste management at county level and reports to European and international entities • Local EPAsare responsible for questionnaires distribution to waste producers/operators, collection of filled in forms, first level data validation and centralising into the local waste databases • National Institute for Statisticsprovides statistical procedures and information on waste producers/operators from REGIS

  18. Roles and responsibilities of “other actors” • Waste producers and operators that receive questionnaires are obliged to fill them in and send them back in due time • Waste transportersreport on transported waste (origin, quantity, destination) to EPA-s /MoE by filling in special forms • Waste handler/dealerkeep records on waste managed (inputs, outputs, origin, destination) and report to local EPA at request Waste handlers = operators of waste management facilities ( composting plants, landfills, incinerators) Waste dealers = operators that are trading recyclable waste

  19. Main recent results • Total investigated units in year 2003 -about 4000 units • Identified tendencies of evolution in waste generation and management • reduction of production and municipal waste • reduction of landfills number • Identified weaknesses - less weighing more volume estimation - incorrect codification (especially of hazardous waste) - variability in reported municipal waste composition

  20. Objectives for future improvement • Training for better identifying types and codes of waste and codes of recovery and disposal operations • Unified values for extrapolation from volume to weight • Municipal waste density in compacting vehicle: 0.4 t/m3 • Construction and demolition wastedensity: 1.5 t/m3 • Simplifying the questionnaires • Better sampling for establishing the statistical community • Friendly database program and statistical tools -

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