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REVAQ - Swedish Certification SystemWhat quality - in farming land and food - do we aim at?
Malmö 28 October 2016Anders Finnson, Swedish Water&Wastewater Association
Holistic Sludge Management in a
Swedish perspective
Circular economy on Midsummer’s Eve
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”The Wedding Cake”
The planetary boundaries – the biosphere is
the base for all development of society and
economy (Folke et al)
Swedish Water&Wastewater Association
Sweden should have fresh drinking water,
clean lakes and seas and access to long-term
sustainable water services.
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Inflow of non-wanted pollutants to the urban water and nutrient cycles
The EU-hierarchy of waste and
recycling management
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Circular economy for nutrients
- or incineration ?
The solution is to phase out the substances that
pollute the cycles instead of banning the recycling.
There is still time (100 years) and there is also a need
for more than 15 years. We need decisiveness and
patience to achieve a sustainable society .
If the main strategy will be incineration and the
infrastructure is in place, the road back to recycling of
nutrients (more than future P) will be very long.
REVAQ is operated by:
- The Swedish Water & Wastewater Association
- The Federation of Swedish Farmers (LRF)
- The Swedish Food Federation
- The Swedish Food Retailers Federation.
and in close cooperation with the Swedish -
Environmental Protection Agency.9
REVAQ Certification system - Aims
be a driving force to further improvement of
the incoming wastewater – the “upstream
work”.
an open and transparent information about
how sludge is being produced and it’s
composition.
to secure that the sludge production is done in
a responsible way and the quality of sludge
fulfil the requirements.
Focus in REVAQ
Long term goal:
– Incoming waste water should have a level of metal
and organic compounds which not exceeds that from
water closets.
Focus in REVAQ
Systematic improvements – local upstream work
- Cadmium goal 2025: 17mgCd/kgP (= 7mgCd/kgP2O5)
- Goals 2025 for 60 other metals and elements
- 2500 organic substances (PRIO-Guide) has to be
substituted at connected industries
Household campaigns
Traceability with digital maps
Salmonella free
Third party audit
Strategies for Revaq and Swedish
Water & Wastewater Association
Local – WWTP working together with local
stakeholders, the municipality, connected
industries and services
National – Swedish Water&Wastewater
Association working in contact with national
stakeholders, authorities and the Government
EU -wide – EurEau (the Association for the
European Water Companies) in contact with
EU-commission and the Parliament 13
Examples of Swedish, Nordic and EU -
actions
Cadmium in paints
Silver as biocides in clothing
Speed up the process to have more
substances on the REACH candidate,
authorisation and restriction lists
Education for retailers purchasers
In the committee of Nordic ecolabelling14
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The wastewater treatment is not made
for chemicals – nor is our environment
Revaq and sludge use in Sweden 2000-2014
Total sludge from
Revaq WWTP
A good designed strategy for the cycle of
nutrients will also be a driver to reach a non-
toxic environment
Conclusions
There is a need to recycle more nutrients
We need political milestone targets and a
regulation that is a driver for safe recycling of
nutrients
We need less hazardous substances in the
water cycle
We need to work with the waste/recycling
hierarchy
When sludge does not match the quality req.
other recycling strategies are needed
REVAQ - Swedish Certification System
What quality - in farming land and food - do we aim at?
Malmö 28 October 2016Anders Finnson, Swedish Water&Wastewater Association