>Environmental Review No. 1 2004 Orientering fra Miljøstyrelsen – Waste Statistics 2001

Waste Statistics 2001

4 Hazardous waste

Table 10 shows generation and treatment of hazardous waste in 2000 and 2001 by main groups. The figures cover waste from both primary and secondary sources. Detailed figures on hazardous waste analysed by the ISAG fractions are found in Annex 3.

Waste from secondary sources, such as waste from incineration plants, is not included in total waste generation, cf. Table 1. This is due to the fact that waste would otherwise be counted in statistics twice: the first time upon reception at the primary treatment plant and the second time as a residue. However, it is reasonable to include waste from both primary and secondary sources in the assessment of capacity needs for management of hazardous waste.

Table 10. Generation and treatment of hazardous waste in 2000 and 2001. Tonnes.
Fraction	Recycling		Inciner ation		Landfilling		Special treatment		Total
	2000	2001	2000	2001	2000	2001	2000	2001	2000	2001
Primary sources
Lead batteries(1)	16517	16942							16517	16942
Hermetically closed nickel-cadmium batteries(2)	58	91							120	91
Animal and vegetable fat		1	2242	2786	7		20	49	2269	2836
Organic halogen-containing compounds	11	4	1252	1209	12	2	119	16	1394	1231
Organic halogen-free compounds	612	513	34744	36010	39	112	3212	3131	38607	39766
Inorganic compounds	3592	3657	5429	6235	3904	3583	7538	7212	20463	20686
Oil waste	13097	18.679	20781	27797	14	168	2244	1005	36136	47649
Cloths and rags polluted with organic solvents		13	169	147			4	4	173	164
Waste from prod ./distrib.of chemical pesticides	86	70	802	677	2	2	43	37	933	786
Waste from medicines	0	0	838	699	1	0	595	522	1434	1221
Chemical waste from laboratories etc.	20	31	756	713	12	4	72	95	860	843
Glass and mineral wool waste containing phenols	0	1	28	21	1	0	4		33	22
Other hazardous waste	13283	8327	11592	13179	1028	1678	2409	1405	28312	24589
Oil and chemical waste	22301	23668					38		22339	23668
Health-care risk waste			1165	2712			2485	2393	3650	5105
Dust-emitting asbestos					8812	9336			8812	9336
CFC cooling agents	5	1090					4	27	9	1117
Sulphuric acid from coal-fired power plants (3)	1300	0							1300	0
Shredder waste						92101			0	92101
*Total primary sources*	*70882*	*73087*	*79798*	*92185*	*13832*	*106986*	*18787*	*15896*	*183361*	*288154*
*Secondary sources*
Flue gas waste (1)	11008	12324							11008	12324
Fly ash & flue-gas cleaning prod. fr. waste incineration (4)					68018	73825			68018	73825
*Total secondary sorces*	*11008*	*12324*	0	0	*68018*	*73825*	0	0	*79026*	*86149*
Total	81890	85411	79798	92185	81850	180811	18787	15896	262387	374303

Source: The ISAG reports 2000 and 2001, and (1) Registrations under the EU regulation on shipment of waste. (2) Danish EPA calculations. A potential collection rate of 120 tonnes has been used for 2000. Calculations for this potential figure are based on the number of batteries becoming defunct each year in combination with an assessment of the amount of time the battery is kept by the user and the amount of time it takes to go through the collection scheme. The difference between the potential collection rate and the actual amount collected (58 tonnes) indicates that some of the batteries have been collected under other sources. Potential collection rates have not been stated for 2001. It is assumed that the difference between amounts collected in 2000 and 2001 (58 tonnes and 91 tonnes respectively) is partly due to batteries collected in 2000 first being registered in 2001. (3) Elsam and Energi E2. (4) Based on the ISAG. It is probable that waste amounts from secondary sources will be exported for landfilling abroad. In Danish Statutory Order no. 660 of 24 September 1986 on asbestos from the Ministry of Labour (now Ministry of Employment), asbestos is divided into three categories: I) dust-emitting asbestos, II) asbestos that may emit dust, and III) non-dust-emitting asbestos. Only asbestos from Category I is hazardous waste - reports to the ISAG, however, cover asbestos from both Category I and II.

The table shows that hazardous waste from primary sources amounted to 288,153 tonnes in 2001. This is an increase of 104,790 tonnes from 2000. The major part of the increase is, however, attributable to changes in methods of registration in the ISAG. From 2001, shredder waste must be reported to the ISAG separately.

Shredder waste was previously registered in ISAG as part of the non-hazardous fraction "various unburnable". Shredder waste amounted to 92,101 tonnes in 2001. Thus there has only been an actual increase of 12,689 tonnes from 2000 in the amounts of hazardous waste from primary sources.

Hazardous waste from secondary sources amounted to 86,149 tonnes in 2001, which is 7,123 tonnes more than in 2000.