Biowaste Management in Austria on the Example of Vienna - ÖGUT

1.2 <strong>Biowaste</strong> <strong>Management</strong> Goals <strong>in</strong> Vienna
Based on the Regulation with hygiene provisions of the European Parliament and the
Council (Regulation (EC) 1774/2002 from 03.10.2002), the City of Vienna has developed a
new concept on its municipal biowaste management. Accord<strong>in</strong>g to this, organic waste
orig<strong>in</strong>at<strong>in</strong>g from the <strong>in</strong>ner districts is foreseen to be collected <strong>in</strong> „kitchen b<strong>in</strong>s“ whose contents
(ma<strong>in</strong>ly food and kitchen waste) will be then utilised <strong>in</strong> the biogas plant of EbS Simmer<strong>in</strong>g
(capacity of ca. 30.000 t/a). In the outer districts, the current bio-b<strong>in</strong>s will be replaced by
garden b<strong>in</strong>s for designated collection of only garden waste. The latter will be forwarded to the
Lobau compost<strong>in</strong>g plant for compost production and utilisation as fertiliser.
A simultaneous availability of a kitchen and a garden b<strong>in</strong> is not foreseen, based on the
consideration that <strong>in</strong> areas with high quotes of kitchen and food waste (<strong>in</strong>ner districts, urban
areas of high population and service density such as lunchrooms, licensed <strong>in</strong>n-houses) little
garden waste orig<strong>in</strong>ates, and <strong>in</strong> turn, <strong>in</strong> areas of a dom<strong>in</strong>ant one-family-house structure
(outer districts), the amount of kitchen and food waste is small compared to garden waste.
Source:
„EU Hygieneverordnung und biogene Abfälle – das neue Bioabfallwirtschaftskonzept der Stadt Wien“,
DI W. Rogalski, <strong>in</strong> Waste Magaz<strong>in</strong>, 2/2003, pp. 5-8
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