Opportunities and challenges for a Re-Use corner in

Opportunities and
challenges for Re-Use
corner in Poland
Krzysztof Krauze, Director
Zakład Zagospodarowania Odpadów
( Waste Management Company)
The Waste Management Company meets the needs related to the natural environment
protection, natural resources protection and needs of the city inhabitants.
Main actions conducted by the ZZO:
Management of waste dump sites.
Current operation and final recultivation of a landfill.
Production and sale of electricity and heat made from biogas.
Conducting selective collection and segregation of waste.
Recycling, selection and sale of waste.
Reception of selectively collected waste.
Collection of hazardous, non-hazardous and inert waste.
Collection and receipt of waste electric and electronic equipment.
Processing of biodegradable waste.
Running collection points for hazardous, inert and bulky waste.
Projects contributing to maintenance of order and tidiness in the city.
Interventions in remediation of consequences of road accidents notified by the City Guards or
Police.
Interventions in removal of contamination and dead animals from public places.
Conducting ecological education.
Problematic waste requires specialist recycling, treatment or utilization and may not be
stored at the city landfill. Therefore the Waste Management Company ensures that such
waste does not pose threat to the natural environment. The ZZOconducts activities related
to the natural environment protection and especially consisting in the management of the
landfill in Suchy Las and its current operation as well its final recultivation. The company
also conducts collection and selection of hazardous and other waste and receives
biodegradable waste.
Glinowieckie Lake
Morasko Reserve
Retention tank
Natura 2000
P-1
Area- 7 ha
P-2, P-2A
Area- 5,4 ha
P-3
Area- 3,06 ha
GRATOWÓZ
Opening the Mobile Problematic Waste Collection
Point-GRATOWÓZ [OLD STUFF TRUCK], allowed to
reach the inhabitants more easily. They can find exact
addresses and parking times of the GRATOWÓZ in the
schedule given on the web site
www.odpady.poznan.pl. The schedule is also issued
once a year as an educational and informative leaflet
distributed together with the local newspapers.
GRATOWÓZ receives waste from inhabitants free of charge
two times on month onSaturdays. Due to growing interest
in the possibility of legal disposal of problematic waste, we
had to find new technical and logistic solutions to meet the
expectations of the inhabitants of Poznań. Therefore the
notion of GRATOWÓZ means at present four trucks!
Cars are intended for collecting used-up electrical equipment.
GRATOWÓZ COLLECTS THE USED-UP ELECTRICAL AND
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
In 2011 the Mobile Problematic Waste Collection Point
collected over 70 Mg of waste.
PROBLEMATIC WASTE COLLECTION POINTS
„GRATOWISKO”
At the Gratowisko such items as used-up electrical and electronic equipment and batteries
are collected from the inhabitants free of charge.
The Waste Management Company organized a system of waste segregation and a system of
hazardous waste collection. The increasing selective waste collection has resulted in a
decreasing stream of waste coming to this dump site, indirectly contributing to the
environment protection. Starting 3 Problematic Waste Collection Points and the Mobile
Problematic Waste Collection point created for the inhabitants a possibility of disposing of
some waste in an environment friendly way. All collected waste are stored in containers.
AT THE GRATOWISKO THE INHABITANTS
OF POZNAŃ MAY BRING THEIR
SELECTIVELY COLLECTED PROBLEMATIC
AND HAZARDOUS WASTE, INCLUDING:
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used-up electrical and electronic
equipment
batteries
old medicines
absorbents, old rugs
old paints, solvents, glue and chemicals
bulky waste (e.g. old furniture)
debris remaining after minor refurbishing
green waste (grass, leaves, cut branches
and bushes)
In 2011 the 3 Problematic Waste
Collection Points collected over
1855 Mg of waste.
OLD MEDICINES AND USED-UP BATTERIES COLLECTION SYSTEMS
Regarding small size batteries collection, the Waste Management Company signed an
agreement with the REBA Organizacja Odzysku (Recovery Organization) thus becoming the
system Operator representing the Organization in the city of Poznań.
The main function of the Reba Educational Program is the exchange of used-up batteries for
points. The points may then be exchanged for items according to an offer placed in a special
catalogue. Due to major interest in collection of used-up batteries also public use buildings
and shops selling batteries were equipped with containers for the battery collection. In the
2011 there were collected 12,7 Mg of used-up batteries.
ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION
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The Waste Management Company acts in compliance with the environment protection
principles regarding waste management. With its vast scope of pro-ecological actions it
prevents degradation of natural environment and contributes to its improvement, thus
contributing to the improvement of the inhabitants living conditions.
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Ecological education is one of the basic activities performed by the Waste Management
Company for many years. The ecological activity is based on co-operation with the
inhabitants of the city of Poznań. Our pro-ecological actions do not consist only in
maintaining tidiness and proper problematic and hazardous waste management but also in
convincing the local society to properly manage hazardous and problematic waste and to
support the idea of the environment protection.
The Waste Management Company started production of the organic fertilizer in 2008 by
receiving grass, leaves and branches from the maintenance of green areas in the city of Poznań
and municipality of Suchy Las in the composting plant at the Landfill of the City of Poznań.
Laboratory tests, repeated for the fertilizer produced from the biodegradable waste, proved
that it is a full value product meeting requirements defined in the Act on Fertilizers and
Fertilizers Application of 10 July 2007 and the Resolution of the Minister of Agriculture and
Rural Development of 18 June 2008 on the execution of some provisions of the Act on
Fertilizers Application with later amendments.
Meeting the above mentioned requirements allowed to carry out in 2009 all necessary tests
and obtain an expert opinion to apply in 2010 for a marketing authorization for the Bio-Felek
organic fertilizer. Finally, the marketing authorization of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural
Development no. 246/10 was obtained on 25 August 2010. Since then Bio-Felek is the first
organic fertilizer obtained from biodegradable waste legally authorized for sale in our region.
Questions about creating a Reuse Corner
(Second-hand Goods Point), containing used
electrical equipment and furniture in a good
condition for reuse.
- When second-hand equipment is not a waste?
- Should we take a statement from a customer that
they are giving us equipment in useable (working)
condition?
- At what price should we value second-hand
equipment? What price should sell the second-hand
equipment at?
Questions about creating a Reuse Corner
(Second-hand Goods Point), containing
used electrical equipment and furniture in
a good condition for reuse.
- How long we should wait before the second-hand
goods become waste, if we have a problems selling
them?
- Who is legally responsible for second-hand
equipment? (In case of an accident.)
- Who has to pay for way object to zone PGOP
accepting status waste?
Thank you