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of appropriate SW treatment
Antonis Mavropoulos
President of Hellenic SWM Association
CEO EPEM SA
amavrop@epem.gr
Contents
• Integrated Waste Management and Sustainable
Planning
• Treatment technologies and their evolution
• Environmental challenges
• Product – market issues
• Financial issues
• Decision making: the art of integration
Defining waste
• “Waste management
is something about
public works,
equipment and
money”
Integrated Sustainable Waste
Management (ISWM)
• Technical appropriate –
environmentally safe
• Economically viable
• Socially acceptable
The 4 principles of ISWM
Generation &
Collection Transfer & Treatment &
separation
transport disposal
ASPECTS
• Environmental • Social – cultural
• Political / legal • Financial – economics
• Institutional • Technical - performance
GDP and waste management
50
45
40
gdp/capita
35
30
25
20
15
0,00 10,00 20,00 30,00 40,00 50,00 60,00 70,00 80,00 90,00
% inc or land
+ Treatment
Landfills +
recycling
Dumpsites + Time, money, energy
scavengers
GDP/ CAP
Environmental
degradation
Understanding how to move
Targets
Waste
Treatment
Landfill
Time or
energy
Waste Hierarchy / Real Evolution
Conclusion 1
Transfer &
transport
Treatment Disposal
Recycling
Recovery
Re-use
Environmental impacts - 1
Cumulative EI
Pyrolysis
chamber
Gasification
facility Rotary kiln
incinerator
New technologies produce
new end products
RDF
Cooper, rubber
and plastic recovery
The role of MBT
MBT PRODUCTS
PROCESS
RECYCLATES MARKET
MBT
LANDFILL CLO USES
What type of landfill?
Putting the right questions
Steps to do
Planning is not just your work!
• Provide a vision
• Define the exact scope of
the plan
• Explain the changes that
will come in terms of
environmental and
financial issues
• Set targets and
objectives
Create power around strategic
framework
SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS
• Stakeholders
• Waste systems elements
• ISWM aspects
Remember ISWM aspects
• Results of step 3 +
results of step 4 Æ
Strategy content
• Give practical
solutions to practical
problems within
specific time horizon
Real answers
• Main Activities
• Time horizon
• Funds
• Support Activities
• Project management
Implementation
• Monitoring
• Feedback
• Review
• Market issues
Product and market issues
Advantages Disadvantages
• Substitution of primary • Market development
fossil fuels not attractive
• Solution for non • Uncertainty for the
recyclable part future
• Reduction of CO2 • Trust of public
emissions
• Lack of standardization
• Link with Renewable
Energy
SRF and environment
High
A common denominator of
Level of environmental risk of the untreated waste
SRF
Landfill WI(2) directive
Biomass biogas
RES-E(1) RES-E
directive directive
Impacts
Technology Results
Applications