Circular Economy Strategy for Liechtenstein
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CIRCULAR ECONOMY STRATEGY FOR LIECHTENSTEIN Circular Economy Liechtenstein (CEL): TowarDs a National StewarDship of Resources 10 März 2020 Prepared by TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 A Circular Economy Strategy for Liechtenstein ............................................................. 4 1.1 What is a Circular Economy? ..........................................................................................................5 1.2 Why BuilD a Circular Economy?......................................................................................................6 1.3 How to Realize a Circular Economy? ..............................................................................................8 1.4 Basis for a Circular Economy in Liechtenstein ................................................................................8 1.5 Strategy to Achieve a Circular Economy in Liechtenstein.............................................................15 1.5.1 Vision......................................................................................................................................15 1.5.2 Implementation......................................................................................................................15 1.5.3 List oF Objectives anD Actions.................................................................................................16 1.5.4 Timeline towarDs Circular Economy Liechtenstein ................................................................17 2 Actions Towards Circular Economy Liechtenstein....................................................... 17 2.1 Objective 1: Enhance Government LeaDership ............................................................................17 2.1.1 Action 1: Create an online registry For waste prevention and resource recovery data .........17 2.1.2 Action 2: Formulate circular economy policies outlining clear objectives anD beneFits ........17 2.2 Objective 2: Optimise EFFicient anD EFFective Recovery Systems .................................................17 2.2.1 Action 3: Adapt waste programs to enhance producer or service provider responsibility....17 2.2.2 Action 4: Revise legislation to enhance resource recovery rates by each sector...................18 2.2.3 Action 5: Create guidelines For waste management operators to ensure that the environment is protected while resource recovery is promoted...........................................18 2.2.4 Action 6: Restrict new landfills and manage existing sites For inert materials.......................18 2.2.5 Action 7: Phase-out mixed waste incineration.......................................................................18 2.2.6 Action 8: Enhance municipal resource recovery techniques For bio-waste anD composting.19 2.2.7 Action 9: Establish promotion and education guidelines to support public participation in resource recovery...................................................................................................................19 2.3 Objective 3: ReDuce Waste anD Increase Resource ProDuctivity .................................................20 2.3.1 Action 10: Support Flea markets, re-use networks, sharing platForms and repair caFes........20 2.3.2 Action 11: Boosting reFurbishment oF all olDer builDings anD repurposing oF structures ......20 2.3.3 Action 12: Labelling of new materials by producers to encourage recovery of materials From own products and packaging..................................................................................................20 2.3.4 Action 13: Increase recycling of building waste From demolition and construction construction activities ............................................................................................................20 2.3.5 Action 14: Scheme For the reuse of excavated soil ................................................................21 2.3.6 Action 15: Ban on single-use plastics with incentives For plastic recycling and use of biodegradable packaging........................................................................................................21 2.3.7 Action 16: Program to reduce Food and organic waste..........................................................22 2.3.8 Action 17: Resuming biogas based cogeneration...................................................................22 2.4 Objective 4: Establish ConDitions to Support Markets For RecovereD Materials .........................23 2.4.1 Action 18: Establish environmental standards For local recovered materials........................23 2.4.2 Action 19: Increase sustainable procurement by public and private sectors to build market for recovereD materials..........................................................................................................23 2.4.3 Action 20: Co-branding Circular Economy Liechtenstein with the National Identity and Shopping LanD logos...............................................................................................................24 3 Coordination, Collaboration and Implementation ...................................................... 24 4 Legal frameworks ...................................................................................................... 26 DRAFT CE STRATEGY FOR LIECHTENSTEIN 22.11.2018 LISD, page 2 5 Measurement and Evaluating Success........................................................................ 27 6 Contribution to EUSALP Action Plan Goal & Transnational Cooperation..................... 27 7 Conclusion ................................................................................................................. 28 DRAFT CE STRATEGY FOR LIECHTENSTEIN 22.11.2018 LISD, page 3 1 A Circular Economy Strategy for Liechtenstein Scope. A circular economy aims at closing material anD resource flow loops - but is also founDeD on renewable energy, water selF-suFFiciency anD interest in domestic fooD proDuction. It opens a new economic perspective as it unlocks Financial opportunities, inDustrial innovation anD the co-creative strength oF Liechtenstein’s communities anD businesses. The Focus in this particular Draft Document is on the country’s waste Flows. Context. A CE framework connects aspects oF Energy Strategy anD Vision, Environmental Protection, National Economy anD finDs expression in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Above all, a CE strategy both mitigates anD aDapts to climate change. Climate change is a reality for Liechtenstein, with impacts being experienceD as increasingly warm weather across the year - incluDing longer dry spells, erratic rainFalls anD decreasing snowFall. The aDoption oF a Climate Change Action Program incorporating various existing anD emerging elements oF the national agenDa – relevant to climate mitigation, aDaptation anD resilience - is oF paramount importance. A Circular Economy Strategy can serve to meet these obectives by making the country’s economy less emitting, more eFFicient, more resilient anD more prosperous. In 2007, Liechtenstein introDuceD a National Climate Protection Strategy to integrate climate protection goals policy into the inDividual sectoral policies, of energy, environment, transport, agriculture and forestry. Measures were outlineD in each with the overall aim to reDuce greenhouse gas emissions through interdisciplinary coordination. Actions by local governments are overseen by framing the environmental policies through the national Environmental Protection Act oF 2008, which provides the legal basis For governing the main aspects oF environmental protection such as air pollution and waste treatment. In 2012, the National Energy Strategy was releaseD to support the further reDuction oF emissions via policy and measures in energy conservation, energy eFFiciency, anD renewable energy proDuction, anD in particular the renovation oF older buildings anD the generation of biogas From waste. With speciFic regard to waste management, the Implementation Plan for the Use of Recycled Building Materials in Public Buildings was presenteD in 2010 to look at ways to increase the use oF recycleD buildng materials in local construcion. In 2012, the Liechtenstein Waste Management Plan 2012-2070, was outlineD describing measures to Deal with the Disposal of diFFerent types of waste generateD in the long term. Like the 2010 Plan, the 2012 plan mainly prioritizes action to recycle inert waste materials From the excavation anD construction process. Today Liechtenstein continues to generate more and more waste. In 2016 alone, about 461,069 tonnes were generateD in the country1, incluDing 460 kg anD 220kg per person for householD recyclables anD general waste respectively. Since 1974, almost of all of the collecteD municipal solid waste from households anD businesses, anD the combustible industrial waste, has been exporteD for incineration to a municipal solid waste incinerator (MSWIP Buchs). The incineration plant now co- generates heat anD electricity, where thermal energy supplies a district heating system, helping to replace the use of primary Fossil fuels such as oil anD gas. Heat from waste combustion is importeD. Besides the recycling of building materals, building re-use, waste-to-energy measures, the strategies anD plans describeD above place little emphasis on the revalorisation or re-use of waste as part of a green circular economy. However, they Do present some key components oF such an economy, anD a gooD starting basis For the gradual integration oF low-carbon circular economy measures, particularly 1 Amt für Umwelt Fürstentum Liechtenstein