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Provincial Waste Management Plan Styria - 2005
Waste materials and packaging waste are collected via the pick-up system as well as bring-it-yourself
system. In the pick-up system, light packagings are collected in "yellow bags" or "yellow containers". In
some regions, the collection of paper and cardboard as well as paper packagings is also organized as
pick-up system (collections organized near private households). In the bring-it-yourself system,
collection points and waste material collection centers are available for the collection of paper, glass,
packaging metals, and light packaging waste (plastic and composite materials).
Other waste types that can be disposed of at waste material collection centers include further
recoverable waste materials (such as e.g. ferrous scrap, flat glass, waste wood, etc.) and other waste
types (such as demolition and construction waste, waste of animal origin to be passed on to animal
body recovery). For the obligatory collection of this waste of animal origin, FA 19D of the Province of
Styria has supported the implementation of 314 refrigerated collection points (animal body recovery
cooling boxes) for the last 10 years. To a large extent these cooling boxes have been integrated into
waste material collection centers, but also into community Bauhof facilities and sewage treatment
plants. They thus help to dispose of around 420 Styrian municipalities' animal body recovery waste.
In 2003, as many as 374 Styrian waste material collection centers were available for the collection of
waste materials, packagings, and other waste types. Further waste material collection centers are
currently being built or planned. Figure 17 illustrates the close interaction between the number of
waste material collection centers and collection volumes.
Number of waste material collection centers
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
73.8
136
Volume of waste materials
incl. waste wood
81.9
220
Collection of waste materials incl. waste wood, related to waste material collection centers
108.5 108.5
290
317
116.3
334
124.7
335
1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Fig. 17: Trends in waste material collection centers and collection volumes of waste materials, 1993 - 2004
3.3.4.1 Waste paper
For organizational and technical reasons the collection of waste paper is now established as a mixed
collection form: paper, cardboard, and paper packagings are jointly collected within the municipal
collection system. On Austrian average, the amount of paper packagings in this collection system
amounted to an approximate weight percentage of 19% in 1994 and continuously decreased to a
weight percentage of 13.8% (around 11,103 tonnes) in 2003.
127.5
340
136.6
351
142.7
357
138.1
363
139.5
374
141.5
380
160.0
140.0
120.0
100.0
80.0
60.0
40.0
20.0
0.0
Volume of waste materials [kg/inhab/year]
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