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Who we are

• Alliance 90 / The Greens are the party of peace,
  social fairness, protection of the environment
  and a sustainable economic development.
• We are a constituent part of the German
  Parliament for 25 years now. Election results up
  to 8,6 .
• From 1998 2005 Alliance 90 / the Greens were
  part of the government and Jürgen Trittin was the
  fist green Minister for environment.
• green successes of time in government were
  phasing out of nuclear power, passing the
  Renewable Energy Act and implementation of the
  emission trading.

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Germany 1980s

• The waste problem was a central point of green
  environmental policy right from the beginning.
• Problem of the early days were a lot of waste
  but very low standards for handling.
• The situation that time
• waste avoidance was a foreign word
• even hazardous Waste was filled in unsecured
  hollows
• incineration was - when practiced at all - known
  as an dioxin slingshot

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Germany 2008

• The commitment of the environmental groups of the
  early days was successful
• today waste avoidance has became a central policy
  target,
• high readiness in the society for separating and
  collecting of waste,
• high quotas on recycling,
• multi way packing is promoted,
• strong legal emission-limits for waste
  incineration,
• no more untreated Waste in landfill sites since
  June 2005

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Lessons learned

• waste avoidance and recycling quotas are not the
  solution, they are just a part of it,
• even recycling products become waste after use,
• alternatives for waste incineration like the
  biological stabilization have disadvantages (e.g.
  landfilling is still necessary),
• although many Members of the green party started
  their carrier in action groups against
  incineration plants, incineration with low
  emission level and energy recovery is very well
  accepted today.
• landfillig is not suitable for the future. To end
  depositing of waste in landfill sites has to be a
  primary target!

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Waste is a resource use if applicable to LA
source IFEU Heidelberg
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What does this mean for our future?

• promotion of an integrated product design the
  behavior of a product as waste has to become part
  of the product development
• closing the loop for raw materials recycling
  instead of downcycling
• avoidance of waste by implementation of a tax for
  primary raw materials
• further efficiency increase for waste
  incineration more production of electricity and
  heat
• Products have to become free of harmful
  substances
• away from oil, use of renewable resources for
  production (e.g. use of bioplastics)

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Germanys concept 2020 Zero waste

• we are campaigning to end the disposal of waste
  from human settlements on landfill sites by 2020
  completely
• That means waste has to be sorted fully
  automatically and the valuable substances have to
  recovered.
• Sorting residues that are left over should be
  used to generate energy in waste incineration
  plants operated to very high standards. -gtthis is
  the link to MVR-technology

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Why do we support the technology at MVR?
a System like MVR fits into Green future concept
to reach the 2020 target

• very low emissions,
• high efficiency in recovering of heat and
  electricity,
• use of different by-products by producing acid
  and gypsum
• use of ashes e.g. in the building industry
• only 2 of the input is left over and has to be
  deposited in the underground

source MVR-Hamburg
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In Summary

• The sustainable handling of waste is a central
  element for protection of environment and
  climate. There is still a lot to do!
• Closing the loop for raw materials and increased
  rate of recycling
• Ending of landfilling as soon as possible
• We conclude that using the best available, proven
  incineration technology is the only realistic
  option

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Experiences with high or low tech alternatives

• Gasification and Pyrolysis
• process itself causes high loss of energy,
  ecologic questionable and economic not
  profitable, examples
• Babcock- pyrolysis capacity only 26.000 t/a in
  the 80s
• Schwel-Brenn-Verfahren pilot plant never worked
  regular
• Thermoselect end in 2004, loss of 400 Mill.
• PKA process since 2007 off duty
• black pump 2004 sold for one uro, since 2007
  using coal
• Mechanical Biological Treatments
• Technical problems, no market for combustibles,
  landfilling is still necessary
• This technologies are not reliable!

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Consequences of missing reliability

• definitely the worst case for the environment!
• examples Napoli, Italy and not working MBA
  Technology

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In Summary

• The sustainable handling of waste is a central
  element for protection of environment and
  climate. There is still a lot to do!
• Closing the loop for raw materials and increased
  rate of recycling
• Ending of landfilling as soon as possible
• We conclude that using the best available, proven
  incineration technology is the only realistic
  option

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