>Environmental Review No. 1 2004 Orientering fra Miljøstyrelsen – Waste Statistics 2001 – Annex 2 Principles for distribution of waste received at recycling centres and transfer stations

Waste Statistics 2001

Annex 2 Principles for distribution of waste received at recycling centres and transfer stations

Recycling centres/transfer stations

The ISAG includes a commercial source "recycling centres/transfer stations". This means that waste from households, for example, delivered via transfer stations is not registered as waste from "households".

Waste generation from the primary source "recycling centres/transfer stations" has therefore been allocated to other primary sources. This distribution is obviously based on estimates.

- All domestic waste from "recycling centres/transfer stations" is converted into domestic waste from the source "households".

- All bulky waste, from "recycling centres/transfer stations", apart from the fractions "paper and cardboard" and "bottles and glass", is converted into bulky waste from the source "households".

- All bulky waste covering the fractions "paper and cardboard" and "bottles and glass" is converted into "domestic waste" and transferred from the source "recycling centres/transfer stations" to the source "households".

- All garden waste from "recycling centres/transfer stations" is converted into garden waste from the source "households".

- 75 per cent of all industrial and commercial waste from "recycling centres/transfer stations" covering the fraction "paper and cardboard" is converted into "domestic waste" from the source "households".

- 25per cent of all industrial and commercial waste from "recycling centres/transfer stations" covering the fraction "paper and cardboard" is converted into industrial and commercial waste from the source "institutions, trade and offices".

- All industrial and commercial waste from "recycling centres/transfer stations" covering the fraction "bottles and glass" is converted into "packaging waste" from the source "households".

- All industrial and commercial waste from "recycling centres/transfer stations", apart from the fractions "concrete", "tiles", "other construction and demolition waste", "asphalt", "wood", and "asbestos", is converted into industrial and commercial waste from the source "institutions, trade and offices".

- All industrial and commercial waste from "recycling centres/transfer stations" covering the fractions "concrete", "tiles", "other construction and demolition waste", "asphalt", "wood", and "asbestos" is converted

into industrial and commercial waste from the source "building and construction sector".

- All hazardous waste from "recycling centres/transfer stations" is converted into hazardous waste from the source "households".

- All waste of the type "treatment residues" and "not informed" from "recycling centres/transfer stations" is converted into a new source: "other".

Bulky waste

- All waste of the type "bulky waste" from the sources "institutions, trade and offices", "manufacturing industries", and "building and construction sector" is converted into "industrial and commercial waste", although deriving from the same sources.

Glass

- Irrespective of waste type all waste belonging to the fraction "bottles and glass" from the source "households" is converted into "packaging waste" from the source "households".

Sludge

- Conversion of dry matter content in sludge. Contents of dry matter in sludge for mineralisation are converted from 1.5 per cent dry matter to 20 per cent dry matter.

Ferrous metals

- Reports to the ISAG on ferrous metals are made according to the Danish Statutory Order on Waste by enterprises, including smelting works, that reprocess collected and separated ferrous metals by remelting. Scrap dealers that collect ferrous metals are not subject to mandatory reporting to the ISAG, but are requested to keep a register in accordance with the ISAG provisions.

- The Danish EPA receives information from scrap dealers directly from the Association of Danish Recycling Industries and other large scrap dealers. In waste statistics, such ferrous scrap has been attributed to the source "manufacturing industries".