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is being replaced by more general rules relating to particular C&I sectors, following
Section 8.40 of the Environmental Management Act. 686
Poland
Packaging must be separately collected from retailer shops with a trading area
greater than 2,000 m 2. Retailers must organise their own collections.
Slovenia
Under the Environmental Protection Act (2001), C&I that produce both garden waste
and vegetable food waste must ensure that this waste stream is separately collected.
Switzerland
Under the Technical Ordinance on Waste, the cantons (regions) must try to recover,
as far as possible, the recyclable fractions of municipal waste (including SME as well
as larger C&I wastes that come under the jurisdiction of the canton). Article 6 of the
Ordinance of the Treatment of Waste prescribes the separate collection of the
recyclable fraction, and includes biowaste that cannot be home composted. In
addition to biowaste, a collection of paper/cardboard, tin, beverage containers, glass,
PET and aluminium is also required, falling under the Ordinance on Beverage
Containers. C&I waste producers are obliged to ensure the separate collection of
these waste streams where the authority considers it technically and economically
viable to do so, and must arrange for the collection of these waste streams either via
the local authority, or via private collections for larger C&I, which are facilitated by prepaid
disposal fees.
California (USA)
The California Air Resources Board (ARB) voted to apply a mandatory commercial
recycling programme as part of the ‘AB 32 Scoping Plan’, which is the blueprint for
implementing California’s global warming legislation. The state has identified
recycling as one of the key strategies in helping California to achieve its targets in
reducing greenhouse gas emissions going forward. In addition, the Scoping Plan also
recognises that the provision of financial incentives will be critical to the success of
the recycling programme; the ARB will work with, among others, the California
Department of Food and Agriculture and the Department of Transportation, to provide
direct incentives for the use of compost in agriculture and landscaping. Furthermore,
the use of incentives in order to encourage the collection of both household and
commercial food waste for both composting and anaerobic digestion processes will
also be explored by the California Integrated Waste Management Board. 687
686 Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (2001) Commercial/Industrial Waste
and Compulsory Separation, available at
http://www.sharedspaces.nl/docs/internationaal/14274_174com_indwaste.pdf.
687 S. Smithline (2008) Recycling to Play Critical Role in State's Landmark Global Warming Plan,
Available at http://www.cawrecycles.org/node/3200, [Accessed on 2 nd January 2009].
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