Local authorities should ensure separate collection of plastic, metal, paper and glass, from 1 January 2016, according to a draft Ordinance to transpose an EU directive, but the most recent data from 2011 shows that we separate and recycle only 12% of household waste.

Draft Government Emergency Ordinance ( GEO ) amending Law no. 211/2011 on waste of public debate was launched on Monday by the Ministry of Environment.

 

The Law no. 211/2011 , transposed Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste and the draft normative act aims to ensure the necessary framework to fully transpose the Directive, as required by the European Commission, says the note substantiation of the project.

 

Law 211/2011 states in Article 17 that " local authorities are obliged since 2012 to ensure separate collection of at least the following types of waste: paper, metal, plastic and glass."

 

Thus, on January 1, 2016, local autorităţuile must be put in place conditions for the separate collection of the four types of waste, waste category, which it manages.

 

On the other hand, according to the annual 'reporting on the state of the environment in Romania, prepared by the National Environmental Protection Agency ( NEPA ), the denied creep the household waste collected, separated and recycled 1 percent in 2009, 5 percent in 2010 and 12 percent in 2011.

 

According to another new provisions of the draft legislation, local authorities of administrative units and Bucharest or, where appropriate, development associations ( cooperative structures with legal personality under private law, established under the laws of administrative-territorial units for the joint execution of joint projects or providing public services, no ) as the legal holders of municipal waste entrusted by law selling organize materials market value resulting from separate collection / sorting waste the proceeds are used exclusively for the management of municipal waste.

 

Currently, materials resulting from selective collection are capitalized sanitation operators and authorized collectors, said AFP specialists from the Ministry of Environment.

 

Only 6.3 percent of all recyclable waste generated in urban areas is collected selectively, given that about 40 percent of Romanians waste are raw materials for the country's economy, according to a study by Eco -Rom package, released in October last year.

 

The results show that urban population separated in special containers for plastic / metal, paper and glass, 6.3 percent ( 8.4 kg ) of all recyclable waste generated ( 134.6 kilograms of recyclable waste generated annually by a person). The remaining approximately 94 percent are found in table mixed waste collected and sent for sorting stations and landfills.

 

Currently, a Romanian urban citizen generates on average about 346 kilogramede household waste / year, while rural people produce on average up to 3.5 times less (about 95 pounds of waste household / year).

 

According to responses recorded in another study Eco – Rom package presented in November, 64 percent of Romanian have access to the collection. Approximately 60 percent of them said they separated household waste, but only 12 percent of them deposited in special containers.

 

Eco – Rom packaging, in partnership with local and sanitation operators designated developing separate waste collection services in 450 municipalities packaging for about 45 percent of the population.

 

 

 

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