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Provincial Waste Management Plan Styria - 2005
The waste management associations' tasks are divided as follows:
• supporting the municipalities in waste management related problems
• giving sustainable advice in environment and waste related matters (§ 14 StAWG 2004):
For these advisory tasks the associations employ qualified environment and waste consultants
who are organized in the Union of Styrian Environment and Waste Consultants.
• planning waste management within the associations: For this purpose, regional waste
management plans are established which are oriented at the L-AWPL-Stmk. (§ 15 StAWG
2004).
• recovery and disposal of municipal waste (§§ 6, 14 StAWG 2004)
2.2.2.1 The umbrella association of the Styrian waste management associations
In 1999, the 17 waste management associations founded their umbrella association. Since 2004, it
has the legal status of a voluntary association 15 . It acts as a bridge between the Province of Styria and
the waste management associations and is responsible for the supra-regional handling (coordination)
of their tasks. In particular, the umbrella association is entrusted with processing and forwarding
information regarding the implementation of the targets of sustainable waste and material flow
management on a regional level. According to the association statutes, the implementation of these
targets is performed by the elected organs in close collaboration with representatives of the waste
management associations and of FA 19D.
The tasks of the umbrella association are:
• representing the Styrian waste management associations' interests and providing technical
assistance within the interest groups Gemeindebund (Union of Municipalities) and Städtebund
(Union of Cities)
• coordinating behavior towards the private waste disposal industry
• participating in ARGE ÖWAV (Consortium of Austrian Waste Management Associations)
• performing other services for the Styrian waste management associations
2.2.3 Municipalities
Primary task of the municipalities is the collection and transport of municipal waste generated in the
municipal area by public removal (pick-up system) or by operation of waste material collection centers
and stationary collection cells for problematic substances (bring-it-yourself system). Therewith, the
establishment of removal and tariff plans is closely linked. The following concrete obligations for
municipalities can be drawn from the AWG 2002 and the Styrian Waste Management Act 2004:
• collecting and removing non-hazardous municipal waste according to § 4 para. 4 StAWG
2004. For this purpose, a public removal service has to be introduced which must be
performed in regular intervals (§ 7 StAWG 2004).
• organizing and performing a bulky waste collection or a controlled transfer of bulky municipal
waste or of waste materials by operating a waste material collection center.
• providing suitable waste collection containers (§ 9 StAWG 2004) as well as holding
responsibility for their cleaning and maintenance.
• performing or initiating on requirement, but at least twice a year, a separate collection
(possibility for disposal) of problematic substances if the municipality does not provide other
15 Founded on October 4 2004. Approval: BH Graz-Umgebung, file number 2.1 Vr-1658/04.
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