SwediSh waSte management |2011 - Avfall Sverige

Swedish waste management 2011Waste agendaMajor changes in laws, ordinances and regulationsgoverning the waste industry.1999• The Environmental Code with associateddirectives and regulations.2000• Introduction of SEK 250/ton tax on wastegoing to landfill.• Municipalities no longer have the option totake voluntary responsibility for waste otherthan household waste.2001• Directive with regulations about landfilling.• Directives about producer responsibility forwaste from electric and electronic equipment(WEEE).2002• Tax on waste to landfills increased to SEK288/ton.• Waste directive with new list of wastes.• Landfilling ban on sorted combustiblewaste.• Directives introduced regarding the incinerationof waste. Applies directly to new facilities.2003• Tax on waste to landfills increased to SEK370/ton• Government bill 2002/03:117 “A societywith non-toxic and resource-efficient ecocycles”is published. Parliament debate andvote on the government bill.2004• Clarification of the waste holder’s responsibilityintroduced in chapter 15 § 5 a of theEnvironmental Code.• Regulations and general advice about themanagement of combustible and organicwaste.• Changes to the directives regarding producerresponsibility for packaging andwaste paper.2005• Landfilling ban on organic waste.• Swedish environmental objectives: Theamount of waste to landfills, excluding miningwaste, must be reduced by at least 50percent compared with 1994. (According tothe statistics, reched in 2003 for householdwaste.)• New directive about producer responsibilityfor waste from electric and electronic equipment(WEEE) came into force on August 13.The previous directive continues to apply forlight bulbs and light sources.• Directive and regulation about waste incinerationcame into force on December 28.2006• Tax on household waste going to Waste-to-Energy incineration was introduced on July 1.• Tax on waste to landfills increased to SEK435/ton.• New directives regarding requirements forreceiving waste at landfill sites, and regulationson contents are laid down in a municipalwaste plan.• New EU directive 1013/2006 regardingtransportation of waste comes into force.2007• Guidance on the concept of householdwaste from the Swedish EnvironmentalProtection Agency.• Introduction of increased environmentalresponsibility for operators, and increasedlegislation on environmental crime.• The municipalities’ possibility of taking voluntaryresponsibility for hazardous wasteother than household waste is abolished onJuly 1.29