Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management ABANDA* – THE WASTE ANALYSIS DATABASE AS ELECTRONIC SUPPORT FOR WASTE CHARACTERIZATION Landesamt für Natur, Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz Nordrhein-Westfalen Dr. Michael Oberdörfer State Agency for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection of the Land North Rhine-Westfalia * A project for the nationwide implementation of the database, financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research Financing number: A

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management The people behind ABANDA State Agency for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection of the Land North Rhine-Westfalia: Claus Becker, Sibylle Fütterer, Klaus-Dieter Koß, Michael Oberdörfer Tauw GmbH: Dr. Marianne Hegemann The ABANDA working-group within the project financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management Contents 1.The waste database ABANDA 2.HAZARD-CHECK 3.Co-operation with other states within a federal project 4.Support of waste management authorities: - Waste portraits - Support of the electronic reporting for the supervision of hazardous waste 5.Conclusion

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management 1. The waste database ABANDA

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management 1. Some facts about ABANDA About 49,000 waste analysis stored; > 100 regulations with about 500 limit value lists stored; ORACLE database; integrated in the waste management platform AIDA; Accessible for everyone via Internet (

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management 1. The waste samples stored in ABANDA Not for all waste codes are samples stored in ABANDA but: For some waste codes analytical information is not necessary or useful The number of samples for each waste code varies The eternal problem: the data sources

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management 1. Selection of waste code 2. Selection of dangerous substance 2a) Basis: German guideline for application of EWL 2b) Input of own data 4. Comparison of dangerous substance concentration with substance related regulation from substance law and waste law 3. Definition of substance concentrations on basis of conventional analysis 3a) Accept data from ABANDA. 3b) Input of own data 5. Result EXCEL sheet Hazardous Not hazardous 2. HAZARD-CHECK

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management 2. HAZARD-CHECK

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management 3. Co-operation with other states within a federal project Birth of ABANDA in 1991 in the state agency NRW Waste management: competence of the 16 federal states Financial support by Federal Ministry of Education and Research: 2001 – – 2008 Project objective: ABANDA financed and organized by all 16 federal states Practical value of ABANDA for the waste management authorities!

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management 4. Support of waste management authorities a)Waste portraits (as part of the Information-Portal Waste Characterization b)Support of the electronic reporting for the supervision of hazardous waste

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management 4. Waste portraits Waste management authorities on the local level need practical and short information about waste: Classification according to European Waste List Origin and characteristic composition Dangerous substances and hazardous properties Collection, transport, recovery and disposal Legal requirements and directives

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management 4. Waste portraits Solution: a waste portrait usually comprises a sub-chapter of EWL with 4 digits, e.g fixed uniform structure for all waste portraits access via Internet links to other information and regulations

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management 4. Support of the electronic reporting for the supervision of hazardous waste For internal hazardous waste transports an electronic reporting system (ASYS) already exists and is still developing: Until now only paper documents Authorities enter information of notification document (prior to transport; valid 5 years) into the ASYS database. exception: waste analysis From 2009 until March 2010 test of electronic reporting for movement document and notification document. Necessary: XML-interface as part of national ordinance

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management 4. Support of the electronic reporting for the supervision of hazardous waste We elaborated an electronic XML-interface for waste analytical data (compatible with the official XML-interface). Future possibilities: Electronic reporting of all supervision data possible Link between transport documents and ABANDA i.e. link between separate databases via web service

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management 5. Conclusion Waste analysis data stored in a database (ABANDA) may be very useful for waste characterization Most public employees involved in waste management need customised information rather than expert systems Internet can be the adequate platform in order to support waste management authorities in their daily work with helpful additional information The presentation of the waste portraits in foresees different languages

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management Thank you very much for your attention! Dr. Michael Oberdörfer

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management waste-type origin/destin. analysis Information about the individual waste sample

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management Information about regulations, limit values

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management Queries, statistical assessment of the database 5 pre-defined queries referring to the content of the database; A special tool for the classification of mirror-entries. 8 pre-defined queries referring to the analytical data;

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management Online-help

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management Number of waste codes in ABANDA

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management Number of waste samples in ABANDA

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management The sources of information

Dr. Michael Oberdörfer Chania 1 st – 3 rd October 2008 International Conference on Hazardous Waste Management Waste management company Waste generator Waste portrait HAZARD-CHECK Legal regulations Comparison of analytical data with legal requirements