This document discusses waste management planning and the importance of knowledge about local waste streams. It provides details about how waste management plans in Veneto, Italy are structured and the types of data collected, such as total waste production amounts, separate collection levels, and waste composition. These data are gathered by waste management companies and environmental agencies to inform planning and ensure compliance with targets. Having accurate knowledge of waste streams allows for better alignment of disposal facilities and treatment plants with production needs.

1. The evaluation of waste
streams

2. The knowledge
 Waste management plans start from the
knowledge of the local situation
 For waste management knowledge means:
 Production
 Management
 Production:
 Kind of producer:
 Household
 Industrial waste
 Quantity of waste
 Composition of waste
 Collection system

3. An example: the waste management
plant in Veneto
 The plan is divided in two main
chapters:
 Urban waste
 State of the art
 Evaluation of needs
 Proposal
 Industrial waste
 State of the art
 Evaluation of needs
 Proposals

4. The urban waste: which data?
 Total urban waste production
 District/Provinces Production
 Geographical effects (tourism and
economy)
 Level of separate collection
 Production of separated waste
(paper, plastic, metals…)
 Composition of residual waste

5. Who collect these data?
 Urban waste production data are
collected by waste management
company
 ARPAV is the webmaster of the
collection system and use these data
to draft the regional plan and check
its enforcement
 ARPAV calculate also the official
level of separate collection for each
municipality. The landfill tax is
based on the achievement of SC
targets

6. Right knowledge = right planning
 Based on waste production trends it possible to
foresee the lifetime of disposal plant as landfills
 Based on waste composition it is possible to
foresee the production of secondary raw
material from separate collection and the
installation required to the treat these streams.
 Geographical knowledge of production site allow
to reduce the distance between production and
treatment
 Some kinds of plants (composting, Anaerobic
Digestion, WtE plants) have minimum sizes
below which the maintenance costs are
unbalanced

7. The role of national law
 In Italy data collection on waste production and waste management is
mandatory since 1997
 The national law on waste in Montenegro it was adopted in 2011
 The national law define only the main target
 The specific systems are defined in some administrative acts