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Spatial Planning and the Environment. Directorate for ...
ELV’s in the Netherlands
12-6-2007
ELV’s in the Netherlands
Hanneke Maarse Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment Directorate for Chemicals, Waste, Radiation Protection
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Outline
• Producer responsibility: background • Policy on ELV’s : retrospective and results • Decree on the management of ELV’s • Future developments
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Producers responsibility (I)
• Producers/importers are (co-)responsible for the wastemanagement of their products • Objective: - Waste-prevention and re-use - Internalisation waste management costs in product price
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Producers responsibility (II) • Examples - Batteries - PVC- tubes - EEE • Voluntary/mandatory • Characteristics - Collective schemes; based on disposal fees - Clear division of roles and responsibility
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ELV’s ; a retrospective
• End of the eighties: - 2800 car dismantlers - Soil contamination - Only re-use of metals • Reorganisation of sector: licenses; financial instruments • Introduction of producers responsibility resulting in ARN in 1995
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ELV’s ; results
• Environmentally sound car dismantling by professional car dismantlers • Recycling-rate 75 % -> 86% (reduction of shredder waste by almost 50%)
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Decree on the management of ELV’s
• Based on EU directive on ELV’s (2000) • Codification of present situation - Producers/importers responsible for funding/organisation of take-back and treatment • Implementation of obligations: collective or individual
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Directive vs. Decree (I)
Main differences • A processing system • Producers responsibility for all cars, regardless of age • Technical regulations
• Registraion/deregistration all cars • All ELV’s go to cardismantlers (except car export) • All stripped ELV’s go to a shredder • Target 95% in 2007 (2015)
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Future developments
• Post-shreddertechnology • High tax landfilling shredderresidu(2008) • Landfillban shredderresidu (2009) • The funds of the collective schemes
