This document discusses waste management and recycling in the EU and Czech Republic. It provides an overview of EU laws requiring 50% recycling of municipal waste by 2020 and 70% recycling of construction waste. It also discusses different types of municipal solid waste like paper, plastic, glass, and electronics, and how to properly separate them for recycling. The conclusion emphasizes that prevention and recycling are better than landfilling, and incineration is better than landfilling when recycling is not possible. It encourages critical thinking about environmental impacts of different waste management options.

1. Three R´s
for the Environment
2015
Šimon & KrisTýna

2. Intoruduction
Waste management
Recycling
Projects
Conclusions
CONTENT

4. LAWS
EU: EC Framework Directive 75/442/EEC as amended by 91/156/EEC
CZ: Law no. 185/2001 Co. : “Waste is the chattel, which someone gets rid
of or someone intend to or is obliged to get rid of.“
Obligatory
Basle convention
- international contract
- limits for moving of waste
across borders
and its destruction
WASTE MANAGEMENT

5. EU LAWS
• recycling of paper, metals, plast, glass, textile,
biowaste, oils and hazardeous waste
• recycling 50% of communal waste
• recycling 70% of construction, industrial
and craft material
till 2015
till 2020
WASTE MANAGEMENT

6. COMUNAL WASTE
0
1 000 000
2 000 000
3 000 000
4 000 000
5 000 000
6 000 000
2007 2010 2013 2015 2020
KO celkem
KO původem z obcí
domovní odpad
KO z činnosti obce
KO živnosti
All
Cities
Homes
Activity of cities
Business
WASTE MANAGEMENT

7. GENERALLY - WM
Landfilling – 57% of
waste in Europe
Incineration without
energy recovery
Disposal methods
Recycling
Classic recycling
Termic processes with energy recovery (incineration)
Biological processes
WASTE MANAGEMENT

9. MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE
Take-away areas (dustbins carried by special company)
Attendance area (for recycling) – the most often
- Collecting area
- recycled waste
- cheating on laws
Deposit (exchange waste for money)
- Glass bottels (beer)
- PET bottels (Germany)
- Plastic cups
Gathering methods

10. Paper board
BELONGS: DOESN´T BELONG:
Oily and dirty paper
PAPER
Books, newpapers, magazines
Boxes, paper bags
Clean paper cover
Diaperes
Wool cotton
paper

11. BELONGS: DOESN´T BELONG:
PLASTIC
PET Linoleum
Pipes
Dirty plastic
Plastic wraps, plastic bags
Plastic dishes
Foils
Polypropylen covers
fibres

12. BELONGS: DOESN´T BELONG:
GLASS
Bottels Bulbs, vacuum tube
Glasses
Window glasses
Pottery
Porcelain

13. DRINK BOXES
furniture

14. Electronics
Car-batteries (without fluid)
Mobile phones
White electronics
Batteries
Vacuum tubes (do not brake, contain mercury)
ELECTRONICS
Collecting places
Special collecting boxes

15. OxidizingExploding Highly
flammable
Extremly
flammable
CausticDangerous for
environment
HAZARDOUS WASTE
= has at least one hazardeous characteristics (as listed in the law)
Paints, electronics,
mercury thermometers,
glues, sprays …

16. BIOWASTE
Pathogens
Toxic chemical substances
Old FARMACEUTICALS to the farmacy
Risky substances
65% of biowaste on landfill sites (2003)

17. BIOWASTE
Type of waste % of degradable biowaste
Paper and booards 100
Wood 100
Organic waste 100
Clothes 75
Waste from markets 75
Mixed municipal waste 45

18. STEAL → prison
BEGGING → the last option where you don´t want to get
GO TO NATURE → loneliness, far, seasonal dependent
(pick the fruits, collect the plants, hunt the animals)
BUSKING → need to have a skills and equipments
DUMPSTERING → eco, social, adrenalin, easy
SWAPPING → loose something else
RECYCLING
ALONE IN THE CITY
VERY VERY HUNGRY
But NO MONEY

19. DUMPSTERING
You threw it away => property of the municipality
Fains for stealing or devaluing waste
Human values ?
Right to have food OR Right to have property ???
Dumpster map
Problems
RECYCLING

20. FOOD
LETS (Local exchange trade system)
Food banks
Food sharing.de or Myfoodsharing.at (excessing food)
V USA: cropmobster.com
New law in France
- doesn´t solve the causations
Appearance check-in for fruits and vegetables
Map of free trees
RECYCLING

22. AAZDROJOVNA
community - recycling center
Using waste as the starting material for making
furniture , accessories or jewelry.
http://www.zdrojovna.cz/

23. AASTROJOVNA
Open space for sewing and handcrafts
- promoting creating, repairing and recycling of clothes
- sharing sewing machines
http://www.strojovna.com/

24. AABEZOBALU
Food without wrapping in
re-usable bags
-buy how much you want
-no commercials
on the cover
-transparent quality
http://bezobalu.org/

25. AAFOREWEAR
reusing and recycling of
clothes
1/ collecting and
distributing for the
people in need
2/ the rest used for craft
– notebooks, mobile
covers …
- employ handicapped
people
http://www.forewear.cz/en/

26. AACONTIQUA
Give to leftover materials from industrial production a new lease of life by
designing products from what would normally be thrown away
working with both the world’s biggest companies and small local craftsmen
http://www.contiqua.co/
“we use design
to deal with waste“

27. AAZAZA
Design plastic bottles from eco material for portable water
-campaign against bottled water
-promotes tap water because it’s tasty, eco-friendly, just, abundant and affordable
http://zazabottles.com
Tap water

28. AADIY workroom
http://www.diypraha.cz/
Open space for different crafts
- wood-working, metal works …
-sharing of tools
-commercial
-workshops

29. Re-cyclo
Carsharing / carpooling (Blablacar,…)
Hitch-hiking
Sharing cars (Lyft, Uber)
Co-housing
Squatting
Community living
SHARING IS CARING
Living
Riding
Just simply share

30. Secondary waste
Waste of energy
Nonsense products
Communcation and competition
PR
Use of waste material
Save energy
Social impact – community building
Local
Moneyless
Projects - conclusions

32. • PREVENTION better than solving the
CONSEQUENCES → DO NOT WASTE
• Recycling (down- and up-cycling) PREFERRED
but just when it is WORTH IT
• INCINERATION preferred over LANDFILLING
CONCLUSIONS

33. CRITICAL THINKING
BE CRITICAL
• Plastic or paper bags ?
• Recycling of biowaste and metals ?
• Using of solar panels ?
• Nuclear energy ?
• Is it really ECO / BIO ?
LCA (Life Cycle Assessmet)

34. BE RESPONSIBLE
• Do you also have the newest version of iPhone?
• Have you ever tried to dumpster your own trash bin?
• Have you ever tried to drink water from your toilet?
• Have you ever thought about cooperating on eco
project with your parents?
RESPONSIBILITY

37. BOOKS UPCYCLING

38. BOOKS UPCYCLING

39. BOOK BINDING

40. BASKETS from NEWSPAPERS

42. BASKETS from NEWSPAPERS

43. BASKETS from NEWSPAPERS

44. BASKETS from NEWSPAPERS

45. BASKETS from NEWSPAPERS

46. STRING BAGS