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Workshop on waste data collection system for EIONET reprezentatives
from West Balcans
4 May 2006 - Zagreb, Croatia
WASTE STATISTICS IN ROMANIA
Author: Luminita Stefanescu
Waste Department
ICIM Bucharest
Main reasons for waste statistics
• Identify types/quantities of generated waste, recycling possibilities and final disposal practices
• Evaluate and monitor evolution of generated waste and changes in recycling /reuse processes
• Easy decision making in environmental protection (strategy & plan for waste management)
• Disseminate information on waste management• Assure comparability of waste data reported to
European and international authorities
European legislation supporting the waste statistics
TECHNICAL ACTS• Waste Framework Directive 75/442/EEC• Council Decision 91/689/EEC on Hazardous
Waste • The European waste catalogue and hazardous
waste list - valid from 01.01.2002 and based on:- Commision Decision 2000/532/EC as amended by:
- Commision Decision 2000/118/EC - Commision Decision 2000/119/EC
European legislation supporting the waste statistics
STATISTICAL ACTS
• Regulation (EC) no. 2150/2004 on Waste Statistics
• Common Questionnaire Eurostat/OECD/EEA on the state of environment - section Waste
National legislation supporting the Romanian waste statistics
• Environmental Protection Law• Law of Waste• Governmental Decision on waste reporting and
adoption of European Waste Codification
GD 155/1999 - introduction of E.W.Catalogue
GD 856/2002 - introduction of E.W.List• Law for Public Statistics• National Classification of Economic Activities -
NACE
Other national regulations containing waste reporting obligations
• Regulations on specific waste flows:• On packaging • On batteries and accumulators• On waste oils• On PCB/PCT control and management• On electric/electronic equipment waste
• All these acts stipulate penalties in case of refusal or delay of waste data reporting and in case of wrong /incomplete data transmission
Data sources and reporting obligations
Who has to register and report waste data?• Generators of industrial waste• Companies managing municipal waste• Waste recyclers• Waste treatment facilities
– Collection and transport authorized companies – Treatment facilities (mechanic – biological
treatment)– Incinerators– Landfills, other disposal sites
Special conditions for data collection
• Hazardous waste are reported together with other waste, except medical waste
• Medical waste are reported separately by Ministry of Health and its units
• Military waste are reported to a separate database
How waste data are collected ?
• Waste data are collected annually • Waste data collection are based on
questionnaires • Questionnaires have been gradually
enlarged and improved to answer to all reporting requirements
• Types of questionnaires used in 2004: – AS-GD-PRODDES– AS-GD-MUN – AS-GD-TRAT
Questionnaire AS - GD - PRODDES
• For waste producers (from industry, agriculture, services, recycling companies)
• Comprises 4 chapters asking about:– Waste generated, recovered and disposed (waste types
and quantities)– Thermal treatment of waste in producers own facilities – Landfilling of waste in producers own deposits– Spending and costs of waste management
Questionnaire AS - GD - MUN
• For municipalities or sanitation companies• Comprises chapters asking about :
– Collection, recycling and disposal of municipal waste– Characteristics of sanitation services – Endowment of sanitation companies
• Refers also to:– Municipal waste composition– Taxes for collection and disposal
Questionnaire AS - GD - TRAT
• For companies - owners of facilities for waste treatment
• It excludes entities that use their own facilities to treat their waste
• Comprises 3 chapters asking about:• Composting plants• Thermal treatment installations • Landfills
Statistical community
• Comprises 2 groups:- Exhaustively investigated units
- Selectively investigated units
• Criteria for including units into groups:
- Relevance in terms of waste management
(as waste producers or waste managers)
- Number of employees (from 1 to over 500)
Classification and terminology used
• Romanian statistical register of economic entities - REGIS
• Classification of economic activities – NACE
• European List of Waste• Codes of recovery and disposal operations, as
established by Waste Framework Directive
How the system works?
• Questionnaires are sent by local EPA-s to designated entities within each county
• Filled in questionnaires come back to EPA; data are introduced in counties databases
• All EPA-s send electronically their data to the National waste database
• ICIM/NEPA verifies/ validate received data• ICIM/NEPA elaborates national reports• Reports are sent to MoE and Statistical Institute
and - at request - to international bodies
Information Flow
Ind. waste Municipalities Recyclers Treatment
generatorsoperators
Local EPA
ICIM/ NEPA
MoE Statistical Institute
Dissemination (JQ, BCS)
Roles and responsibilities of “main actors”
• MoE is responsible for waste management at county level and reports to European and international entities
• Local EPAs are responsible for questionnaires distribution to waste producers/operators, collection of filled in
forms, first level data validation and centralising into the local waste databases
• National Institute for Statistics provides statistical procedures and information on waste producers/operators from REGIS
Roles and responsibilities of “other actors”
• Waste producers and operators that receive questionnaires are obliged to fill them in and send them back in due time
• Waste transporters report on transported waste
(origin, quantity, destination) to EPA-s /MoE by filling in special forms
• Waste handler/dealer keep records on waste managed (inputs, outputs, origin, destination) and report to local EPA at request
Waste handlers = operators of waste management facilities ( composting plants, landfills, incinerators)
Waste dealers = operators that are trading recyclable waste
Main recent results
• Total investigated units in year 2003
- about 4000 units
• Identified tendencies of evolution in waste generation and management– reduction of production and municipal waste– reduction of landfills number
• Identified weaknesses- less weighing more volume estimation
- incorrect codification (especially of hazardous waste)
- variability in reported municipal waste composition
Objectives for future improvement
• Training for better identifying types and codes of waste and codes of recovery and disposal operations
• Unified values for extrapolation from volume to weight– Municipal waste density in compacting vehicle: 0.4 t/m3
– Construction and demolition waste density: 1.5 t/m3
• Simplifying the questionnaires • Better sampling for establishing the statistical community • Friendly database program and statistical tools
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