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Convenience at public recycling<br />

centres attracts recycling goods<br />

WEEE Forum conference, London, 20-21 September 2012<br />

Hasi Schwarzenbach, Executive Officer<br />

zeba, Switzerland


How to establish recycling?<br />

Producer Seller Consumer<br />

?<br />

✔raw materials are exhaustible<br />

✔population wants to recycle<br />

✔no environmental pollution<br />

✔Club or Rome “limits <strong>of</strong> growth” 1972


take- and bring back requirement<br />

✔take back requirement<br />

✔bring back requirement<br />

Producer Seller Consumer<br />

Recycler<br />

- this is not enough<br />

- targets can not be met


The Ökih<strong>of</strong>: a reversed Hypermarket<br />

Producer Seller Consumer<br />

Recycler<br />

Ökih<strong>of</strong>


The Ökih<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Zug</strong>


all kinds <strong>of</strong> rubbish are taken back<br />

http://www.zug.ch/behoerden/weitereorganisationen/zeba/oeffnungszeitenbereich/oekihoefe-gemeinden/die-zugeroekihoefe/image_half<br />

Container for electronic waste


Swiss Voluntary System<br />

Producer Seller Consumer<br />

two private Organisations<br />

€<br />

Recycler<br />

Ökih<strong>of</strong>


essential points for <strong>the</strong> whole system<br />

✔ Product design<br />

✔take back requirement<br />

✔without exception<br />

✔bring back requirement<br />

✔advanced recyc. charges<br />

✔satisfying facilities<br />

Producer Seller Consumer<br />

✔controlled Export<br />

Recycler<br />

✔dismantle and shred<br />

✔supply pure materials<br />

✔FCKW <strong>pioneer</strong>s<br />

Ökih<strong>of</strong><br />

✔reversed Hypermarket<br />

✔supervised<br />

✔efficient / <strong>region</strong>al<br />

✔audit


Thank you for your attention!<br />

Producer Seller Consumer<br />

Recycler<br />

Ökih<strong>of</strong>

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