CAUTO - Cooperativa sociale Onlus (Italy)Life Med project - LIFE13 ENV/IT/000620

Life Med International Workshop - 25/26/27 January 2017

ZEOS, d.o.o. (Slovenia)Life E-waste management - LIFE14 GIE/SI/000176

Urša Dolinšek

WHATInappropriate handling of e-waste and waste

batteries cause environmental pollution and the loss of natural resources = BAD HABITS OF CONSUMERS

WHY Low level of awareness.

Growing use of consumer electronics.The rapid advancement of technology.

Rare generation of e-waste.

8%OF E-WASTE

IS LOCATED INMIXED MUNICIPAL WASTE

(source: ZEOS, d.o.o.)

ZEOS WAS FOUNDED:2005

ZEOS IS NON-PROFIT SHEME FOR:WEEE - Waste electrical and electronic

equipment WPBA - Waste portable batteries and

accumulatorsWGC - Waste grave candles

ABOUT

3.262

4.271

5.797 5.931 6.479 6.700

6.022

7.285 7.880

8.400

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

The quantity of collected e-waste in ZEOS scheme(in tons)

ZEOS E-WASTE COLLECTION

• Project name: LIFE E-waste management / Project slogan: E-cycle• Project duration: 1.1.2016 – 30.12.2020 • Project value: 1.795.765,00 EUR

CO-FINANCED BY• European Commission (60%) • The Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning of RS (10%)

TARGET GROUPS• Households • Consumers (youths, families, senior citizens)• General and international public

KEY STAKEHOLDERS • Local public service providers• Retailer of EEE• Municipalities• NGOs

BASIC INFORMATION

• Raising the awareness of target groups about the importance of correct e-waste and waste battery

management and influence on their behaviour.

• Establishing an infrastructure network throughout Slovenia to simplify separate

collection of e-waste (especially small appliences) and waste batteries.

• Growth in collected volumes of e-waste andwaste batteries = collect by 2020:

- 8,3 kg e-waste/citizen- 0,18 kg waste batteries/citizen

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

MAIN PROJECT ACTIVITIES

STREET CONTAINERS

WASTE BIN AREAS

MOBILE COLLECTOR

RURAL AREAS

GREEN CORNERSSHOPPING MALLS

• PRESS AND PROFESIONAL CONFERENCES

• WORKSHOPS

• CULTURAL EVENTS

• WASTE BATTERIES COMPETITION

• PROJECT WEBSITE

• SOCIAL COMMUNITY NETWORK

OTHER PROJECT ACTIVITIES

VIDEO

• project is managed from within the company ZEOS, d.o.o. = advantage

• we established „project steering comittee“ = forproject monitoring

• project activities are implemented with projectsstakeholders = occasionally some problems with

communication

CRITICAL ASPECTS OF PROJECT MANAGING

2015: NEW regulation on WEEE(Official Gazette of the Republic of

Slovenia, No. 55/2015) is setting new collection targets:

• By 2016 - 41% of collected WEEE regarding the amount of EEE placed on the market in the previous three years

• By 2021 - 65% of collected WEEE regarding the amount of EEE placed on the market in the previous three years

WEEE LEGISLATION RELATED TO PROJECT:SUPPORT OR BARRIER

2021

2016

What will continue to function after 2020:

• Sustainable infrastructure network: greeen corners, mobile

collector, street containers

• Communication activities: project website, social

community network, newsletters and media information,

some accompanying events, information bords etc.

• Cooperation with stakeholders: local public service

providers, retailers of EEE, municipalities, NGOs

LONG TERM ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY