National waste management plan 2002

• National level, deals with:

– prevention of waste production

– infrastructure for collecting (hazardous) waste

– setting ‘so-called’ minimum standards (techniques)

– establish preferred capacity for waste incineration

• Plan is renewed every 4 years

• CA: Ministry of Environment

National waste management plan 2002

• SEA was carried out:

– to compare different techniques and define preferred technique

– to investigate different need scenarios for incineration to determine needed incineration capacity

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• Selection preferred techniques

– 26 waste streams investigated (asbestos, batteries, dissolvents, waste oil etc)

Example waste oil:• in rotary drum incinerator

• use as fuel in cement oven

• additional fuel in power station

• distallation with sodium treatment

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• Comparison techniques: – LCA (all effects incl re-use of material

– General themes:

• climate change

• acidification

• euthrophication

• toxicity (humans, ecology)

• use of resources

• disruption: biodiversity

– 12 LCA themes

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• Make results useful for decision making: different weighting

– all 6 themes equally important

– all 12 LCA themes are equally important

– importance of effects relative to ‘distance to target’

– emphasis on greenhouse effect (reduce of energy use)

– emphasis on dispersion

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• Comparison:

– analysis of most friendly technique for the environment

– preferred technique

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• Capacity planning incineration grey waste

• 2 scenarios : separation in different (caloric) components with specific processing

(use in power plants, cement ovens, incineration plant)

1 scenario: all waste integrally burned in waste incinerators

1 scenario: no increase in capacity (landfills)

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Comparison of alternatives

• simplified LCA

• use of space for waste that is land-filled

• emissions of NOx, CO2, CO, carbon hydroxides, NH3 en dioxins

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• Relation SEA and EIA

• SEA (2002), national level:– Capacity for incineration:

• need scenarios investigated

• conclusion: 2 incineration plants are needed

– for 26 waste streams : preferred technique

• EIA project level– Site characteristics examined

– Preferred technique applied? If not, applied technique has to score as good as or better than preferred technique