Evaluation of residual waste composition in Austria 2018/2019
Abstract
In the research project "Preparation of a guideline for the performance of residual waste sorting analyses", which was completed in 2017, a binding methodology was defined for the first time throughout Austria which fulfils waste management, technical waste and statistical criteria. The methods were developed by the Institute for Waste Management (Beigl et al., 2017). Based on these specifications, residual waste sorting analyses were carried out in all Austrian provinces in 2018/19. For the first time in Austria, a nationwide uniform database for the composition of municipal waste is now available, which allows exact comparisons according to collection systems as well as demographic and settlement structural regional characteristics. Previous waste analyses at state level were limited not only by a lack of standards and various questions, but above all by the low sample mass and thus by the low informative value of the results. The effectiveness of waste management collection system design and other measures was therefore often not possible. A nationwide campaign carried out makes it possible, on the basis of a much higher sample mass or number and the greater heterogeneity of the system design nationwide, to make much more precise statements as to whether, for example, certain collection systems are more efficient than others. Research objective Based on the uniform methodology developed by the Institute for Waste Management in 2017, the results of sorting analyses of all federal states - in terms of residual waste composition - are to be combined and evaluated at federal level for the first time in this research project. Up to now, sorting analyses have only been carried out and evaluated at the federal state level, with the result that comparability has only been possible to a limited extent due to the different methodological approaches adopted to date. Now for the first time nationwide uniform socio-economic factors as well as the influence of adhesions on packaging materials (gross/net packaging shares) are to be taken into account in the evaluation of the analysis results. The present research project thus makes an essential contribution to the provision of well-founded basic data on waste management for the planning of future measures and also enables the empirical evaluation of the methodology developed in 2017. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
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Project staff
Peter Beigl
Dipl.-Ing. Mag.rer.soc.oec. Peter Beigl
peter.beigl@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81314
Project Leader
01.12.2019 - 31.07.2021
Anna Happenhofer
Dipl.-Ing. Anna Happenhofer
anna.happenhofer@boku.ac.at
Sub Projectleader
01.12.2019 - 31.07.2021