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Sweden. 9,4 million inhabitants 450 000 km 2 Public responsibility for household waste Reduction fo climat gases Material for recycling Energy recovery. Avfall Sverige. Public waste management Front runner waste management field Competence World class infrastructure
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Sweden • 9,4 million inhabitants • 450 000 km2 • Public responsibility for householdwaste • Reductionfoclimatgases • Material for recycling • Energy recovery
Avfall Sverige Public waste management • Front runnerwaste management field • Competence • World classinfrastructure • Environmental and social benefits • Ensures long term work according to the wastehierarchy • Zerowaste!
Avfall Sverige • Waste management & recycling sector’s expert organzation • Reason: the municipalities' responsibility for household • 400 members • Represent 99,9 % of the Swedish population • Community contacts, advice, training, communication, developmentprogramme, lobbying, networking • Primary task: represent and develop members by creating networks, providing information, influencing • Members of Cewep, ECN, ISWA, Municipal Waste Europe • Aimingtoward an environmentallycorrect and sustainablewaste management, for the benefit ofsociety
Developmentprogramme • 15 years – 360 developmentprojects • Total costSEK 68.9 million • The projectsarepresented in reportspublished on the website • Practical usefor the members At least 35 reports/year, someofthemtranslatedintoenglish
Memberadvisory • 9advisors, experts on different matters • Memberscanturntothe them for advice • Guidelines, recommendations, templates
Influencingwork • Target groups: • The parliament, • the government, • public authorities, • variousorganizations, • media. • Long process: • everything is not visible, • requiresmanycontacts. • Decision-makersknowsthat Avfall Sverige – Swedish Waste Managementis an importantactor
Guidance • Avfall Sverige consistsof the association Avfall Sverige and whollyowned service companyAvfall Sverige AB • Funding • membershipfees • revenuesfrom salesofeducation/training, reports etc. • developmentfee • The Annual meeting appoints the Board • Municipal membersvote • Daily operation by CEO with 17 employees, with the support ofworkinggroups, committeesetc
Board • 18 members • ten areelectedrepresentatives, mayorsetc • eight administrative officials • nominatingcommittee should • “strivetoensurethat the structureof the board reflects the association’smembership in terms ofitsorganisationalstructure, size and geographical distribution, and strivetoachieve as even gender distribution as possible”.
Workinggroups • Public procurement & legislation • Biological recycling • Landfill • Energy recovery • Export • Hazardouswaste • Communication • Logistics • Material recycling • Recycling centers
Communication Trademagazine 5 issues/year Newsletterpublishedwhenneeded, about 20 issues/year, alsopublishedelectronically
Communication • Joint communication2006 – 2012: • Hazardouswaste • Material recycling • Waste-to-Energy • Biogas, bio-fertilizer and compost • The roles and responsibilitiesofmunicipalities • Keyobjectives: • toincrease the knowledgeabout Swedish waste management • toincrease the knowledgeaboutthe roles and responsibilitiesofmunicipalities
Education • Extensive trainingprogrammetoincrease the levelofknowledge and competence • In total 2,500 peopletakepart in about 40 trainingprogrammeseveryyear • Qualitycertifiedsince 2009 • Online trainingprogrammeAvfallsakademin (Waste Academy)
Avfall Sverige’s vision Zerowaste! • Longtermgoals 2020: • Decouplingamount of waste – growth rates • Strong upwardmovement in wastehierarchy • - Municipalities, theircompaniesare the engine and the guarantorof the transition GDP BNP Amount of waste Avfallsmängd
Swedish Waste Management • Municipalitiesareresponsible for the collection and treatmentofhouseholdwaste, exclproducerresponsibility material • The responsibility and the performance is organized in several different ways • Municipalities and theircompaniesarealsohandling commercialwaste
Clear division of responsibilities Producers: • Collection and treatmentofwastewithproducersresponsibility • Municipalities: • Collection and treatmentof municipal waste • Information to households • Waste prevention • Parliament/ • Government • Authorities Waste generator: • Private persons/households: Sort and leavewasteat indicatedcollectionpoints • Companies/Industries: Handling ofowngeneratedwaste
Waste management is a public service Clear division of roles and responsibilitiesthatenablenecessaryinvestments Long-term regulations and economicalsteering instruments Co-operation betweenmunicipalities Collaborationbetween public and private sectors Focus on communication and public engagement Importantsuccessfactors
Contact WeineWiqvist Prostgatan 2, S-211 25 Malmö +46 40 35 66 05 +46 70 893 15 99 weine.wiqvist@avfallsverige.se www.avfallsverige.se www.minskaavfallet.se twitter.com/#!/avfallsverige facebook.com/sveriges.storsta.miljororelse