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Waste Statistics 1996
Containers/transfer stations
ISAG defines the commercial source "containers/transfer stations". This
means that waste, e.g. from households, transported via transfer stations is not recorded
as waste from "households".
The "container/transfer station" source is therefore distributed on the
original sources. This distribution is obviously done on the basis of estimates.
- All domestic waste from "containers/transfer stations" is converted into
domestic waste from the source "households".
- All bulky waste, apart from the fractions "paper&cardboard" and
"bottles&glass", from "containers/transfer stations" is converted
into bulky waste from the source "households".
- All bulky waste that includes the fractions "paper&cardboard" and
"bottles&glass" is converted into waste type "domestic waste" and
transferred from the source "containers/transfer stations" to the source
"households".
- All garden waste from "containers/transfer stations" is converted into garden
waste from the source "households".
- All commercial and industrial waste from "containers/transfer stations", apart
from the fractions "concrete", "brick", "other building &
construction waste", "asphalt", "wood" and "asbestos",
is converted into commercial and industrial waste from the source "institutions,
trade/ & offices".
- All commercial and industrial waste from "containers/transfer stations"
covering the fractions "concrete", "brick", "other building &
construction waste", "asphalt", "wood" and "asbestos",
is converted into commercial and industrial waste from the source "building &
construction".
- All environmentally hazardous waste from "container/transfer stations" is
converted into environmentally hazardous waste from the source "households".
- All waste of the type "treatment residuals" and "not notified" from
"containers/transfer stations" is converted into a new source:
"other".
Bulky waste
- All waste of the type "bulky waste", from the sources "institutions,
trade & office", "manufacturing industries" and "building &
construction", is converted into waste type "commercial and industrial waste,
although deriving from the same sources.
Iron and other metals
- Reports to ISAG of iron and other metals are done according to the Statutory Order on
Waste by enterprises, including smelting works, that process by smelting collected and
separated iron and other metals. Scrap dealers that collect iron and other metals are not
subject to mandatory reporting to ISAG, but are requested to uphold a register in
accordance with the ISAG regulations.
- On the other hand, the Environmental Protection Agency receives information from scrap
dealers directly from the Association of Danish Recycling Industries and other big scrap
dealers. In waste statistics, this quantity of iron and metal scrap has been given the
industrial source "manufacturing industry".
- Uniscrap A/S, however, on a voluntary basis has reported on collected iron and metal
scrap stating i.a. the geographical source. The total quantity received by Uniscrap A/S
from primary sources amounts to a good 300,000 tonnes. The Environmental Protection Agency
assesses that this information will result in a considerable improvement of the print-outs
on waste production that the Agency sends to the Danish municipalities.
- As a consequence, the Environmental Protection Agency has included the reports from
Uniscrap A/S in the database and simultaneously, in order to avoid double counting has
made corrections at the smelting works’ figures, incl. the Danish Steel Works, that
receive iron and metal scrap from Uniscrap A/S.
- In its reports, Uniscrap A/S informed that the received iron and metal scrap comes from
a number of industrial sources, mainly manufacturing industries. However, a considerable
part comes from small iron and metal scrap dealers which are stated under the industrial
source of trade and offices. In order to reach comparability in reports from the
Association of Danish Recycling Industries and other big scrap dealers, this quantity is
converted into the industrial source "manufacturing industries".
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