Republic of Slovenia – Ministry for Environment and Spatial Planning
Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia
PACKAGING WASTE
MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM IN SLOVENIA
Eva Lipovž-Ančik, M.Sc.
Environmental Agency of Republic of Slovenia
Waste Management Section
22. July 2009, Sofia (BG)
TAIEX – Infra 32644
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Packaging Waste Management System in Slovenia
 Introduction
 Strategy of Waste Management in
European Union and Slovenia
 Packaging Waste Management
System in Slovenia
 Problems from the Field
 Conclusions
Source: www.ijs.si
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INTRODUCTION
SLOVENIA
BULGARIA
Republic
Organization
Republic
Ljubljana
Capital City
Sofia
01.05.2004
Joining EU
01.01.2007
20.273 sq.km
Area
110.910 sq.km
1.964.036 (2002)
99 people/ sq.km
Population
7.932.984 (2001)
69 people/ sq.km
7 (non-formal)
Regions
28
210
Municipalities
260
Source: sl.wikipedia.org
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EU and SLO – Strategy of Waste Management
 Waste prevention and recycling:

Waste – a negative issue or an opportunity?
Key objective = waste prevention!
if not possible – use it as a resource
 Material flow – closing the loop

 Waste hierarchy:
 waste minimization
 recovery processes
 disposal processes
Source: www.fermanagh.gov.uk
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PACKAGING WASTE: Important Waste Stream
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Packaging Waste Management Systems
Producer-responsibility
management scheme
Environmental taxes and fees
 Producer’s responsibility
 Effective and economic
instruments – high costs for
disposing waste
 Establishment of a specific
company (collection, treatment –
financed by the producers)
 Easier to achieve
recycling/prevention targets
 Responsibilities of authorities:
establishment of regulatory
framework for collection &
treatment and for control
 Negative side = Parallel collection
schemes
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 Supplement the legislative
framework set at national level
 If too high => possible illegal and
uncontrolled waste disposal
 Before their introduction => costbenefit analysis based on
environmental and economical
terms should be done
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NATIONAL LEGISLATION
ON PACKAGING AND PACKAGING WASTE
 The Rules on Handling Packaging and Packaging Waste (OG RS 104/00)

target recovery shares (end of 2007):
min. 50% of total recovery
min. 25% of total recycling (15% for each packaging material)
 The Operational Programme for the Management of Packaging and Packaging Waste for
2002-2007 Period (OG RS 29/02)  a step-by-step plan for achieving recovery targets
 The Decree on Environmental Tax on the Generation of Packaging
Waste (OG RS 32/06, 65/06 and 78/08)
 The Decree on the Management of Packaging and Packaging
Waste (OG RS 84/06, 106/06 and 110/07)

target recovery shares (end of 2012):
min. 60 % of total recovery
min. 55 % and max 80% of total recycling
paper&cardboard – 60%, plastic – 22,5%, wood – 15%,
metal – 50%, glass – 60%
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SLOVENIA: PRODUCER-RESPONSIBILITY
PACKAGING WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
 Change in thinking!
 Environmental tax for packaging/packed goods placed on
Slovenian market (CORS)
 Options:
 non-municipal PW => joining the trade company or
developing an individual system (license form EARS!)
 municipal PW => joining the trade company
 < 15.000 kg of total PW => nothing (< 5.000 kg) or annual
statement about quantity of all PW produced
 Annual reporting on quantities to EARS
 trade company – for all its members
 individual system – by itself
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Trade Company for Managing Packaging Waste
(system/scheme for managing PW)
 Obligations:
 collecting, storing, sorting, recovery/disposal
 achieving target shares of recovery/recycling for total PW and
for each packaging material
 annual reporting to EARS for each member
 Costs:
 depending on packaging material and type of packaging
 30-75 EUR/ton ?!
 Current Trade Companies:


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
Ekodin

Surovina
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Individual System for Managing Packaging Waste
 Non-municipal packaging waste
 License from EARS (valid for 5 years)
 Obligations:
 meeting target shares of recovery by themselves or by
handing PW over to the recyclers
 annual reporting to EARS
 Main problem:
 wooden packaging (pallets) – ensuring 15% recycling
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Municipal Packaging Waste
 municipal packaging waste = PW from households + similar
PW (restaurants, schools, …)
 Public Waste Services: organized and supervised by
municipalities (differences!)
 separately collected fractions of PW must be handed over
to trade companies
 shares of quantities handed over to trade companies
defined by the Environmental Ministry for each trade
company
 annual reporting to EARS
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Quantities of Packaging Waste Produced (t)
(Source: http://kazalci.arso.gov.si )
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Pap&Cardb
45.891
57.575
52.120
52.202
56.030
70.416
Plastic
29.883
31.463
32.598
32.345
33.940
47.348
Wood
36.510
44.972
34.393
28.520
31.590
36.182
Metal
13.329
13.769
14.506
13.798
13.120
18.077
Glass
24.118
21.842
22.823
26.228
25.650
31.259
Other
7.749
7.926
7.950
8.414
8.300
899
157.480
177.547
164.390
161.507
168.630
204.182
Together
Slovenian average of produced packaging waste ~ 100 kg/citizen
(EU average ~ 172 kg/citizen)
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Quantities of Recovered Packaging Waste (t)
(Source: http://kazalci.arso.gov.si )
2001
Total
recovery
Share of
recovery
2002
2003
2004
12.252 21.396 21.445 69.824 79.678
8%
12 %
13 %
43 %
Target
share 2007
min. 50 %
Target
share 2012
min. 60 %
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2005
47 %
2006
94.692
47 %
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Problems from the Field
 Classification of pack. waste (composite packaging, hazardous PW)
 Responsibility of final user (!) to empty PW properly (hazardous PW)
 Reporting not necessary if <15.000 kgs and/or a member of a trade
company
 Responsibility of producers of packaging/ pack. waste for all types
of PW (tertiary or transport packaging!)
 Differences among trade companies (prices, flexibility)
 More than one trade company – how to define shares of municipal PW
 Achieving recycling targets as individual system (wooden PW - R1 is
not recycling)
 Environmental tax – grave-side lights
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Latest Problems from the Field…
 collapse of waste-market:
 trade companies – obliged or not to collect municipal PW
from public waste services (at their side)?!
 extra-charging by trade companies for transport of PW from
final users to collecting centers (should be in-calculated into
general costs for joining a system)
 will collapse also the system of PWM schemes?!
 pilot-project with municipal PW: yellow bags
 plastics, metals, tetra-packs
 regular collection (1x/week) by local public waste service –
no extra costs!
 ? for urban areas (more appropriate for individual houses control)
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CONCLUSIONS
 Slovenia has a producer-responsibility packaging waste
management system since 2002, and it was estimated to become
fully active in ten years.
 The target recovery shares of total packaging waste from
Slovenian and EU packaging waste legislation were not yet met in
any one year but are growing.
 To reach better shares of recovery and handling packaging
waste in general, more intense and constant involvement of the
public is needed what should be achieved through different
projects of education on this topic.
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eva.lipovz-ancik@gov.si
Home-page of EARS:
http://www.arso.gov.si/
Waste Management:
http://www.arso.gov.si/varstvo%20okolja/odpadki/
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