Limerick Clare Kerry Replacement Waste Management Plan
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Evaluation of the Replacement Waste Management Plan for the Limerick/Clare/Kerry Region 2006-2011 Evaluation of the Replacement Waste Management Plan for the Limerick/Clare/Kerry Region Page 1 Replacement Waste Management Plan for the December 2012 Limerick/Clare/Kerry Region 2006-2011 LIST OF TABLES:................................................................................1 LIST OF FIGURES:..............................................................................2 ABBREVIATIONS:...............................................................................3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY........................................................................4 1.0 INTRODUCTION............................................................................6 2.0 LEGISLATIVE UPDATE....................................................................7 3.1Targets..........................................................................................................8 3.2 Inter-Regional Movements of Waste.............................................................8 3.3 Cost Recovery..............................................................................................8 4.0 WASTE PREVENTION...................................................................10 4.1 Waste Prevention Community/Household Level:........................................10 Fig 4.1 Household Waste Management & Generated per captia L/C/K REGION 2008-2010.....................................................................................................11 Fig 4.2 Household Waste Managed- Regional comparison 2010.....................11 Table 4.2: Newspaper weekly circulation rate................................................11 Table 4.3: Radio Listenership.........................................................................11 4.2 Waste Prevention –Home Composting........................................................11 Table 4.4: Estimated quantity of Home Composted Waste, within the Region, 2005- 2011 (tonnes)......................................................................................12 4.3 Waste Prevention at Schools Level.............................................................12 Fig. 4.3 No of schools with green flag.............................................................12 Table 4.5 No of Registered Green Schools, active Green Flags/annum and number of students influenced by programme..............................................12 Page 2 4.4 Waste Prevention in the Commercial/Industry Sector.................................12 Table 4.6: RIWMO Involvement in Commercial/Business/Industry Events.......13 Table 4.7: EAO Involvement in Business Events.............................................13 4.5 Reuse at Business and Industry Level........................................................13 4.6 Working with National Initiatives................................................................13 Table 4.8: 2010 LAPN Programme - Events/Tourism/Sport Details..................15 Table 4.9: 2010 LAPN Programme - Health Care Details.................................15 Table 4.10: 2010 LAPN Programme - In House Resource Efficiency Details....15 Table 4.11: 2010 LAPN Programme - Food Waste Prevention Details..............15 Table 4.12: 2010 LAPN Programme - Networks for Waste Prevention.............16 Table 4.13: 2011 LAPN Programme - Limerick City:........................................16 Table 4.14: 2011 LAPN Programme - Limerick County:...................................16 Table 4.15: 2011 LAPN Programme - Clare County:........................................16 Table 4.16: 2011 LAPN Programme - Kerry County:........................................16 Table 4.17: 2011 LAPN Programme - Additional Projects:...............................16 Table 4.18: 2012 LAPN Programme - Current Projects:...................................17 5.0 HOUSEHOLD WASTE MANAGEMENT.............................................19 5.1 Waste Collection/Uncollected Waste..........................................................19 Table 5.1 No of Households signed up to a service.........................................19 Table 5.2 Percentage of Households signed up to a service...........................19 Table 5.3 Tonnage of uncollected waste:........................................................20 Table 5.4 Total Complaints and Litter Complaints in the Region.....................20 5.2 Re-use and Recycling.................................................................................21 Fig. 5.1 Regional Household Recycling Rate Comparison...............................21 5.3 Organic Waste Collection...........................................................................21 Fig. 5.2 Quantity of source segregated household biodegradable waste collected within the Region 2008-2011..........................................................22 ........................................................................................................................22 5.4 Bring Banks................................................................................................22 Table 5.5 Tonnage of Waste Collected at Bring Banks in L/C/K Region 2006 - 2010..............................................................................................................22 5.5 Recycling Centres/Civic Amenity Sites/Transfer Stations............................22 Table 5.6 Tonnage of Waste Collected at Recycling Centres in L/C/K Region 2006 - 2010...................................................................................................22 Fig. 5.3 Regional Recycling Rate Comparison.................................................23 6.0 COMMERCIAL WASTE MANAGEMENT............................................24 6.1 Commercial and Industrial Waste Generation and Recycling......................24 Fig. 6.1 Commercial and Industrial waste arisings per annum........................24 Fig. 6.2 Commercial and Industrial waste arisings per Employee...................24 Fig. 6.3 Commercial and industrial waste percentage recycling.....................24 6.2 Commercial Organic Waste........................................................................24 Page 3 Table 6.1 Tonnes of Source Segregated Commercial Organic Waste collected in the Region since 2008...................................................................................25 Fig 6.4 Commercial Organic Waste collected within the Region 2008-2011....25 7.0 MUNICIPAL WASTE INCLUDING BIODEGRADABLE MUNICIPAL WASTE. ......................................................................................................26 Table 7.1 Municipal Waste Generated...........................................................26 7.1 Biodegradable Municipal Waste.................................................................26 8.0 CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE MANAGEMENT..............28 Fig 8.1 C&D Waste arisings within the Region 2004-2011..............................28 9.0 OTHER PRIORITY WASTE STREAMS..............................................30 9.1 Hazardous Waste......................................................................................30 Table 9.1 Breakdown of Quantity of Hazardous Waste Collected in Region 2008-2010.....................................................................................................30 9.2 Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE)....................................31 Table 9.2 Quantity of WEEE Collected in Region 2008-2010...........................32 Table 9.3: WEEE Inspections in the L/C/K Region in 2010 (Source RMCEI Review Data).................................................................................................32 9.3 End of Life Vehicles(ELVs)..........................................................................32 Table 9.4: Quantity of ELVs collected within the Region for the period 2008 – 2011..............................................................................................................33 Table 9.5: ELV Inspections in the L/C/K Region 2007- 2010 (Source RMCEI Review Data).................................................................................................33 9.4 Tyres..........................................................................................................34 Table 9.6: Quantity of Tyres collected within the Region for the period 2008 – 2011..............................................................................................................34 Table 9.7: Tyre Inspections in the L/C/K Region in 2009-2010 (Source RMCEI Review Data).................................................................................................34 9.5 Sludges......................................................................................................35 Table 9.8: Quantity of Sludge collected within the Region for the period 2008 – 2011..............................................................................................................35 10.0 INFRASTRUCTURE....................................................................37 10.1 Bring Banks..............................................................................................37 Table 10.1 Bring Bank (BB) Numbers.............................................................38 10.2 Recycling Centres/Civic Amenity Sites/Transfer Stations:.........................38 Table 10.2 Recycling Centre Targets...............................................................38 10.3 Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) and transfer stations:........................39