Provincial Waste Management Plan Styria - Abfallwirtschaft - Abfall ...

Provincial Waste Management Plan Styria - 2005
In collaboration between public and private waste management, the waste treatment plants required
for a legally compliant treatment of waste have been projected, approved, and taken into operation
even before the last adaptation period of the Landfill Ordinance entered into effect. Thereby, the
private waste management industry has contributed significantly to the safe disposal of waste since
2004 and has invested a total of approx. €130m in the construction or adaptation of splitting plants and
biological and thermal treatment plants.
Of the 4 "original" waste or sludge composting plants (waste sanitation facilities), 2 plants (Aich-
Assach, Frojach-Katsch) are still operating as residual waste splitting plants. The landfills which used
to exist at these two sites were closed in the meantime and the waste flows derived thereof are
externally recovered or disposed of.
Currently, a total of 9 residual waste splitting plants are operating in Styria (Table 10). In these
facilities, municipal waste is split into a high calorific fraction for subsequent thermal treatment and into
a low calorific fraction for subsequent biological treatment.
Plant site Capacity in t/year Operator
Aich-Assach 10,000 AWV Schladming
Frojach-Katsch 14,000 AWV Murau
Hartberg 10,000 AWV Hartberg
St. Michael 65,000 Fa. Mayer/Säumel
Graz 75,000 AEVG
Graz 13,000 Fa. Saubermacher
St. Margareten an der Raab 45,000 Fa. Müllex
Markt Hartmannsdorf 9,900 Fa. Müllex
Fisching 34,900 Fa. Trügler
Total capacity: 276,800
Tab. 10: Residual waste splitting plants for municipal waste, with processing capacities
In order to provide a legally compliant framework for the disposal of Styrian municipal waste starting
January 1 2004, new mechanical-biological residual waste treatment plants (MBTs) have been
established at the sites Halbenrain and Frohnleiten. In the case of the Frohnleiten site, mechanical
processing of the waste is performed by AEVG in Graz. At the site of the former waste sanitation
facility Liezen, a new MBT with extended treatment capacity has been built, incorporating available
and usable components of the former plant. At the site Allerheiligen im Mürztal, the tunnel composting
plant already built in 1996 has been run as state-of-the-art MBT after an adaptation of the operational
mode. Hence, four state-of-the-art MBT facilities for residual waste with a processing capacity of
182,000 t/year are currently operating in Styria (Table 11).
Plant site Capacity in t/year Operator
Allerheiligen 17,000 AWV Mürzverband
Halbenrain 75,000 A.S.A. Abfallservice Halbenrain GmbH & Co Nfg KG
Frohnleiten 65,000 Servus Abfall - biologische Stufe
Liezen 25,000 AWV Liezen
Total capacity: 182,000
Tab. 11: Mechanical-biological treatment plants in Styria, with processing capacities
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