1. Norwegian Pollution Control Authority
Waste assembling and recycling (WEEE)
Anne Marie Mo Ravik
Senior Executive Officer

2. The Norwegian Waste Policy
Objectives:
Growth in the volume of waste that is generated should be significantly lower than the rate of economic growth
Status: Household waste same rate, production waste lower
Within 2010 shall no more than 25 % of the waste generated be disposed of on landfills or incinerated without energy recovery
Status: 34% (2002)
Practically all hazardous waste is to be treated in a safe and acceptable manner, and is either to be sent to recycling or is to be guaranteed sufficient national capacity for its treatment
Status: 10 % unknown disposal
Status:
12,5 % hazardous waste to unknown disposal
National capacity is sufficient
Waste disposed on landfills or incinerated without energy recovery:
1995: 43 %
2000: 37 %
2002: 34 %
Objective 1 – Growth of Waste

4. Management Local Authorities - Municipalities
IPPC & WEEE
Management
Local Authorities - Municipalities
Collecting and managing of household waste
Private Enterprises/ Industry
Responsible for its own waste
Collection and treatment of waste. Recycling facilities
Take- back systems
- car wrecks
- electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)
- lead batteries
- packaging waste
- tyres

5. WEEE Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment
Short about WEE-directive: Both product and waste regulations
Design for recycling
Marking
Product documentation
National legislation from August 2005
My presentation will focus on: legislation for collecting (and handling) of EE- waste.
Hazardous components: Brominated flame retardants, Lead (Pb), Mercury (Hg) Cadmium (Cd) + Berrylium
Effective take-back system and handling of EE-waste prevents leakage of hazardous components to the environment
Hazardous Components in WEEE:
Flame retardants
Heavy metals (Pb,Hg,Cd +other)
PCB

6. WEEE regulation in Norway
Regulation on WEEE since 1999
Obligations to
- producers/importers of EE-equipment
- distributors and
- municipalities
Agreement with the electro industry to collect 80% of EE-waste. Take-back companies established.
First country with a system on WEEE.
Agreement between ministry of environment an electroindustry.
Take-back companies for different categories of electrical waste. 6 take-back companies in Norway on waste electrtronic and electrical equipment. 3 with agreement (Renas, Hvitevareretur, Elektronikkretur) and without: Ragn Sells, Eurovironment,) + Batteriretur

7. WEEE regulation in Norway (2)
Producer/importer:
- Establish and finance a system for collecting and treatment of EE-waste (individual system or member of a take-back company)
Distributors (shops):
Take back waste electrical and electronic products
From consumers: free of charge. No re-purchase necessary.
- Information
Municipalities:
Establish collection points for EE-waste.
Information to consumers
Producer: - Collect amount of EE-waste proportional to amount sold
Distributors: Shall also take back waste from business activities, but can claim re-purshace of new equipment
Municipalities: free of charge from consumers, can have at tax for waste from business-activities

8. $ Product & waste flow (simplified)
New products
Waste products
producer
importer
Money to pay for waste treatment
distributor
consumer $
Environmental cost on products to cover treatment cost of the waste. Set by the industry- non-profit. Renas: 0,1-1%. El-retur stykkpris (ca 5 kr-20 kr ~1-2 euro.)
Waste treatment
Collection point
Producer/ importer must pay for the waste collection and treatment
This obligation can be fulfilled by membership of a take-back system
The costs will be part of the product’s price

9. Supervision by authorities
About importers/producers in Norway.
35 inspected last 3 years (no members of take-back
systems)
Inspection of 400 distributors last year
Increased effect by active use of media and reporting
“worst-cases” to the police.
Treatment plants must have a permit
Mange importører ! mange er små. Prioriterer de største. Ikke-medlemmer er “Free-riders”. Varslet mange om at vi kunne komme- plukket ut noen
Aksjon med county governors: Dårlig info hos forhandlere: er viktig for å få inn småelektronikk. Will be folloed up.

10. Experience on the WEEE-system
The system works !
High degree of recovery of waste electronic and a electrical equipment in Norway (80% )
Information to consumers essential to get more waste in to the system (small appliances)
Implementation of the WEEE-directive will be based on existing regulations
Økende andel småelektronikk. Innsamlet fra El-retur første halvår 2004: 6 kg pr. innbygger, total I WEEE per capita kg per capita 2004.
Less EE waste for landfill, more reuse of components, safe treatment of hazardous compnents.
Potenial for more waste recovery of small appliances: To easy to put in the dustbin- information to consumers important !
Implementation of WEEE-directive based on the system we have, but some changes: Establish a register of producers
Strengthen the obligations for importers /producers to avoid problem with “free-riders”: Document a take-back system before importing EEE.