Presentation from Markus Dirnberger - Physicist and expert in Austria’s seven bin collection system and the circular economy at The Waste management: best practice showcase 22 November 2018 .
4. Even if we made incineration or
pyrolysis safe we would never make it
sensible. It simply does not make sense to
spend so much money destroying
resources we should be sharing with the
future.
We must completely avoid incineration.
⇒ Makes the residual fraction very visible.
30. Woden vs Berlin
Waste Type
Berlin
(litres)
Woden
(litres)
General Waste 31248 60760
Plastic, Metal 13020 -
Paper 11268 -
Organics 2604 -
Glass (white) 2187.4 -
Glass (green) 2187.4 -
“Recycling”
(Total)
31266.8 17360
Total “Waste” 62514.8 78120
% Recycling 50.02% 22.22%
% General
Waste
49.98% 77.78%
Ratio of
general waste
to recycling
1 3.5
Municipal waste guidelines for 434 units per week
Canberra Times – “DA lodged for two towers at Woden Town Centre bus interchange”
https://www.bsr.de/abfallrechner-23203.php
32. Since 1 January 2015,
sorting is mandatory
for organic waste.
(And paper, plastic, glass and metal too.)
33. Access: every household.
Education & awareness.
Mandatory targets
for industry.
“France has become the first
country in the world to
ban supermarkets from throwing
away or destroying unsold food,
forcing them instead to donate it
to charities and food banks.
37. 63% of fruit and
vegetables are sold
pre-packaged in plastic
38.
39.
40.
41.
42. Single use packaging wastes resources
Oil, coal, minerals, plants, chemicals, air, water, land,
aluminium, natural gas, resin, colours . . .
Only ~30% of
recycled PET bottles
become new bottles.
Recycling is not a closed-loop cycle
