„Business opportunities in waste
treatment”
Conference -Tel Aviv 14.06.2012
Business opportunities in waste
treatment - introduction
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Existing situation, circumstances:
- formal
- institutional / organisational
National waste management plan
- main objectives
Waste is the problem ! - it‘s true
- so where the business is ???
Legislation
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the act of 27 April 2001 on waste (Official Journal of 2010 No. 185,
item 1243, further amended ),
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the act of 11 May 2001 on the operators' responsibilities in the
scope of managing certain types of waste and the product
charge (Official Journal of 2007 No. 90, item 607, further amended),
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the act of 29 July 2005 on waste electrical and electronic
equipment (Official Journal of 2005 r. No. 180, item 1495, further
amended),
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the act of 24 April 2009 on batteries and accumulators (Official
Journal of 2009 No. 79, item 666, further amended),
Legislation
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the act of 20 January 2005 on the recycling of end-of life
vehicles (Official Journal of 2005 No. 25, item 202, further
amended),
the act of 13 September 1996 on maintaining cleanliness
and order in municipalities (Official Journal of 2005 No. 236,
item 2008, further amended),
the act of 10 July 2008 on extractive waste (Official Journal of
2008 No. 138, item 865, further amended),
The objectives of waste management
Packaging waste
By the year 2014 the following recycling levels
should be achieved:
-plastic packaging – 22,5%
-metals – 50%
-household glass packaging – 60%
-paper and cardboard packaging – 60%
-wood packaging – 15%
The objectives of waste management
Waste electrical and electronic equipment
Currently the required level of collection is a 4
kg per capita.
By the year 2021- 65% by weight of equipment
placed on the market or 85% of the
resulting waste equipment - according to the
draft amendment of the WEEE Directive.
The objectives of waste management
Batteries and accumulators
By the year 2016 and later - collection
rate of waste portable batteries and
accumulators shall achieved at least
45%.
The objectives of waste management
Municipal waste
Levels of recycling, preparing for re-use and other material
recovery to achieve in the following years
paper,
metal,
plastic, glass
construction
and
demolition
waste
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
10
12
14
16
18
20
30
40
50
30
36
38
40
42
45
50
60
70
The objectives of waste management
Municipal waste
Reduction levels of urban biodegradable waste directed to
landfills in the following years
Acceptable
level
of weight of
biodegradabl
e municipal
waste directe
d to landfills
on the mass
of the waste
produced in
1995
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
75
50
50
50
45
45
40
40
35
Forecasted changes in waste
management
In the coming years the dynamic growth of the generation
of waste is expected due to the economic development
of the country and seal waste management system.
The Polish market therefore requires a huge
investments aimed at the development of waste treatment
infrastructure.
Particularly important for the functioning of the system will
be investments in a new forms of waste management.
Forecasted changes in waste
management
Forecasts for production of paper and cardboard, glass, metals and
plastics from municipal waste in Poland.
Specification
No.
Mass of generated municipal waste (Mg thousand) per year:
2011
2013
2014
2017
2020
2022
1
Paper and cardboard
1592,8
1653,5
1682,8
1795,7
1889,4
1949,2
2
Glass
1249,8
1285,5
1304,5
1358,9
1412,7
1454,5
3
Metals
285,0
287,7
288,8
290,7
288,5
286,5
4
Plastics
1606,7
1652,0
1690,5
1766,2
1885,7
1973,3
Total
4734,3
4878,7
4966,6
5211,5
5476,3
5663,5
Forecasted changes in waste
management
Forecasted amounts of municipal waste generated in 2011-2022, including
municipal biodegradable waste.
16000
Mg thousand
14000
12835
12528
13035
13456
14254
14712
12000
10000
8000
6088
6933
7015
7287
7574
7761
6000
4000
2000
0
2011
2013
2014
2016
2020
forecast for municipal waste generation
forecast for biodegradable municipal waste generation
2022
Forecasted changes in waste
management
Financial development
management
of
the
Polish
waste
In 2010 the market recorded a 2 955.5 million USD in
revenue.
It is estimated that in 2017 revenues reach a level
of 4 621.1 million USD.
Investments in waste management
Biodegradable waste
In connection with the obligation to reduce landfill of
biodegradable waste, investments in regional facilities to
treatment waste are necessary. The current capacity for this
type of waste management are inadequate.
Type of facility
Total number of
facilities
Total capacity [Mg thousand]
Green waste composting plants and
separately collected organic waste
(of plant and animal origin)
90
602,3
Incinerators for municipal waste
1
42,0
Digestion plants
3
51,5
Plants for mechanical and biological
treatment of mixed municipal waste
11
411,7
NWMP (as of 31 December 2009 r.)
Investments in waste management
Biodegradable waste
Regional municipal waste treatment installations waste facilities to a capacity sufficient to receive and
treatment waste from the area inhabited by at least
120 000 people which meet the requirements of best
available techniques and technologies and ensure
thermal treatment of waste or:
a) mechanical-biological treatment of mixed municipal
waste and separation from mixed municipal
waste fractions suitable in whole or in part for the
recovery,
Investments in waste management
Biodegradable waste
b) treatment of selectively collected green waste and other biowaste and the production of one product with the properties of
fertilizers or plant conditioners, meeting the
requirements specified in separate provisions,
c) storage of waste generated in the process of mechanicalbiological treatment of mixed municipal waste and residues from
the sorting of municipal waste with a capacity allowing
for adoption for a period of not less than 15 years of waste in an
amount not less than those arising in the installation of the
mechanical-biological treatment of mixed municipal waste.
Investments in waste management
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The municipality will be required to select the entity that will
build, maintain and operate the regional municipal waste treatment
installation:
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by tender,
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in terms of the act on public-private partnership,
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in terms of the act on public works and service
concession;
If the tender will end negative or if a choice of a private partner
or concessionaire has not been made, the municipality will be able
to independently build, maintain or operate a regional installation.
Investments in waste management
Packaging waste
Due to the obligation to provide the levels of recycling of packaging
waste and the need to increase the weight of certain fractions of
municipal waste processed for re-use, recovery and recycling, new
investments are needed for the management of these wastes.
Also a new components used in production of packaging (eg.
PVC) will force the construction of installations for the recycling of
waste arising from them.
It is necessary to the development of waste sorting facilities to
ensure the separation of mixed municipal waste into
individual fractions to submitting them for further recovery and
recycling.
Investments in waste management
Thermal treatment of waste
Increasing requirements to ensure certain levels of waste recovery,
particularly packaging, will drive the growth of investment in thermal
treatment of waste with energy recovery.
Currently in Poland there are numerous medical incineration plants, a
few sewage sludge incineration plants and only one municipal waste
incineration plant with a capacity of 42 thousand Mg.
National Waste Management Plan 2014 envisages the development
of investments related to the thermal treatment of waste. It is planned
to build eight installations for the incineration of municipal waste which
will be financed from structural funds.
Investments in waste management
Waste batteries and accumulators
The development of waste management of batteries and
accumulators, including an increase in subsequent years the
collection rates, will force investment in plant for the treatment of this
type of waste.
Existing production capacity for the recycling of waste zinc-carbon,
alkaline, lead-acid, nickel-cadmium batteries are sufficient
for treatment all the material collected from the market.
Installations for recycling waste zinc-carbon and alkaline
batteries exceed their capabilities of processing (about 12 000
Mg) the mass of the collected waste batteries. There are also spare
production capacity for the lead-acid batteries (130 000 Mg) and NiCd batteries (2 000 Mg).
Investments in waste management
Waste batteries and accumulators
There is a lack of effective waste treatment
technology
of
waste
Li-Ion
and
Ni-MH
accumulators. It is therefore necessary to run in
Poland for at least one installation of the recycling of
waste Li-Ion and Ni-MH accumulators with a
capacity of approximately 200 Mg per year.
Investments in waste management
Hazardous waste
One of the most modern technologies for disposal of hazardous
waste is a plasma technology which is now the object of intensive
and extensive research in most industrialized countries.
Advantages:
–high temperature compared to the incineration process;
–high purity of the chemical;
–high concentration of energy;
–high heat transfer coefficient on the workpiece;
–short residence time of material loaded into the reactor;
Disadvantages:
-high operating costs due to high consumption of electricity.
Thank you for your attention