Karen B. Kristensen, M.A.

European Topic Centre on Resource and

Waste Management

Under contract with the European Environment

Agency

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Outline of presentation

The Topic Centre The world of the EEA ETC/RWM activities ETC/RWM, Turkey and the West Balkans IMPEL relevant success stories Various information sources

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What is a Topic Centre?

ETCs: consortia of national institutions

work under contract with the European Environment Agency (EEA)

assistance within a particular topic (resources and waste in our case)

existed since 1997

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Who is the Topic Centre?

Italian EPAItalian EPA

Danish Danish EPAEPA

Wuppertal InstituteWuppertal Institute

Regional Environ-Regional Environ-mental Centremental Centre

Austrian EPAAustrian EPA

Environment Agency for Environment Agency for England and WalesEngland and Wales

Estonian Environment Estonian Environment Information CentreInformation Centre

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What are the resources?

10 full-time staff in Copenhagen11 part-time staff with partners

Annual budget:EUR 800,000 (incl. 10% national contribution)

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European Environment Agency

‘The EEA aims to support sustainable development and help to achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe’s environment through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to the policy making agents and the public’

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Eionet

Eionet is the network of the EEA:

National Focal Points– (one in each country)

National Reference Centres – (experts within a field)

European Topic Centres– (resource and waste management, air, water,

terrestrial environment as well as nature and biodiversity)

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Eionet

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Work areas

•Data processing and data management•Indicators and fact sheets•Support to policy processes•Policy analysis and assessment•Knowledge sharing•Support to member countries

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Data processing and data management

The ETCs do not collect data

Data from Eurostat, DGEnv, Basel Convention

Regulation on Waste Statistics important in the future

Close cooperation with DGEnv and Eurostat– Overlapping reporting obligations

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Draft list of ETC/RWM indicators

Direct Material Input (DMI) Direct Material Consumption (DMC) Generation of municipal waste Generation of packaging waste Total generation of waste Generation of industrial waste Generation of hazardous waste Waste recovery by operation categories Waste disposal, specific waste streams Landfilling of biodegradable municipal waste GHG emissions from waste recovery and disposal

EEA CSI

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Municipal waste generated in WE and CEE

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

kg per capita

WE

CEE

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Generation of packaging waste and GDP in Europe

80

100

120

1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002

Index (1997=100)

Packaging waste generationGDP

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Manufacturing waste generation in Western Europe and Central Eastern Europe

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002

Million tonnes

WE

CEE

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Manufacturing waste generation/gross value

added in the manufacturing sector

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002

Index 1996=100

Waste generation Gross value added

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Trends in generation of manufacturing waste per capita

0

0,5

1

1,5

2

2,5

3

3,5

Tonnes/capita

1996 1998 2000 2002

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Trends in manufacturing waste generation per gross

value added in the manufacturing sector

0

500

1000

1500

2000

BE

CZ

DE

DK FI

HR IS IT NL

NO

PL

PT

RO SI

SK

WE

CE

E

Tonnes/ Million USD

1996 1998 2000 2002

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Policy analysis and assessments

Use of economic instruments in resource policies

Assessment of effect of present EU legislation – Landfill and Incineration Directives

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Support to member countries

Support to Turkey

Support to West Balkan

Eionet– newsletter– annual Eionet workshop

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ETC/RWM, Turkey and the West Balkans

The two projects concern the setting up of a national waste data collection and information system to enable the countries to report according to EU and international requirements in the future

Knowledge-sharing/best practice Financing: EEA (Turkey) and Cards (West

Balkans)

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Knowledge sharing

Wastebase

Success stories (waste prevention)

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Success stories

Envirowise – the UK(www.envirowise.gov.uk)

Commercial waste advisors – Denmark Effizienz-Agentur NRW - Germany

(www.efanrw.de) Cleaner Production Centre – Croatia

(www.cro-cpc.hr)

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http://waste.eionet.europa.eu/

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Other information sources

www.wasteinfo.dk(International WasteNews)

http://www.eea.europa.eu/ http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/in

dex.htm http://www.iswa.org