Waste Wood Ordinance
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Ordinance on requirements for the recovery and disposal of waste wood |
| Short title: | Waste Wood Ordinance |
| Abbreviation: | AltholzV |
| Type: | Federal Ordinance |
| Scope: | Federal Republic of Germany |
| Issued on the basis of: | §§ 7, 12, 41, 48, 59 KrW- / AbfG , § 17 Abs. 1, 3, 5 ChemG , § 7 Abs. 1 Nr. 1 BImSchG |
| Legal matter: | Special administrative law , environmental law |
| References : | 2129-27-2-19 |
| Issued on: | August 15, 2002 ( BGBl. I p. 3302 ) |
| Entry into force on: | March 1, 2003 |
| Last change by: |
Art. 120 VO of June 19, 2020 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 1328, 1342 ) |
| Effective date of the last change: |
June 27, 2020 (Art. 361 of June 19, 2020) |
| Please note the note on the applicable legal version. | |
The ordinance on requirements for the recovery and disposal of waste wood , in short: Altholzverordnung (AltholzV), regulates the recovery and disposal of waste wood in the Federal Republic of Germany. By the term waste wood she understands industrial waste wood and used wood if it is waste according to the definition of the Recycling Management Act (KrWG) .
The Waste Wood Ordinance came into force on March 1, 2003 and was published in the Federal Law Gazette on August 23, 2002.
Purpose of the law
The background to the Waste Wood Ordinance was the expansion of waste law with an increasing shift in the focus to management, i.e. in particular to the (re) use of waste. The Recycling and Waste Management Act ( when the ordinance comes into force, the Recycling and Waste Management Act (KrW- / AbfG) ) contains general regulations that are specified and detailed in the ordinance for waste wood. Since the waste wood accumulation in the Federal Republic of Germany has reached a significant amount (approx. 8 million tons / year) and a high proportion of it is problematic due to its previous use and in particular due to its treatment with wood preservatives during disposal, the handling of it should be specially regulated .
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The Waste Wood Ordinance regulates the disposal procedures for waste wood. For its purposes, it defines waste wood as " industrial waste wood and used wood , insofar as this is waste within the meaning of Section 3 (1) of the Recycling Management Act". Waste within the meaning of the Recycling Management Act "is all movable objects [...] which their owner discards, wants to or has to discard."
Reclaimed wood categories
The ordinance divides waste wood into categories, which in particular decide on the type of recovery or disposal:
| category | designation | Origin (examples) | Recovery / disposal |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI | Natural or mechanically processed waste wood, practically not contaminated | Furniture made of solid wood without glue boards | Material recycling such as the production of new chipboard |
| A II | Glued, coated, varnished waste wood without organohalogen compounds in the coating and without wood preservatives | Glued wood panels , furniture without PVC parts, interior doors, floorboards | Material recycling such as the production of new chipboard |
| A III | Reclaimed wood with organohalogen compounds in the coating without wood preservatives | Furniture with PVC edges or PVC coatings | Energy recovery only in approved plants, chipboard production only after cleaning |
| A IV | Waste wood treated with wood preservatives and waste wood that cannot be assigned to categories AI, A II or A III due to its pollution | Railway sleepers, masts, rafters, windows, external doors, fences, wooden garden furniture | Energy recovery, synthesis gas and charcoal production only in approved plants |
| PCB waste wood | Waste wood treated with agents containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) | Hazardous waste - landfill |
Even where such wood waste occurs, producers have to separate them according to these categories. All other owners have to keep them separate until they are properly recycled or disposed of. Anyone who delivers waste wood for recycling - except in small quantities - has to declare it according to waste wood category and quantity; In the corresponding waste disposal facilities, deliveries are to be checked and sorted by qualified personnel and assigned to the waste wood categories. In case of doubt, it is assigned to the next higher category.
A IV material is regularly hazardous waste , so special procedural rules apply to handling it and deviations from them are punishable.
Waste wood can be recycled
- materially (e.g. through processing into wood-based materials, production of activated charcoal / industrial charcoal as well as through extraction of synthesis gas ) or
- energetically, i.e. in systems approved for this under immission control law as fuel (e.g. electricity generation in biomass thermal power stations ).
Anyone who does not properly recycle old wood must dispose of it, i.e. a facility for thermal treatment (incineration) approved for this purpose.
Waste wood treatment plants
Except for proper disposal, waste wood may only be placed on the market in order to feed it to a special facility for material or energy recovery, for sorting or other treatment of waste wood. Your operators have to ensure the requirements of the AltholzV with qualified personnel and certain procedures of incoming inspection, pollutant measurement in random samples, the sorting out of contaminants and documentation before they are then allowed to market the material as a building material or in the form of wood chips or pellets as fuel .
Web links
- Text of the waste wood ordinance
- Text of the circular economy law
- Waste data sheet waste wood from the State Office f. Environment NRW ( Memento from August 31, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Law Gazette I No. 59 pp. 3302–3317
- ↑ Information on the amount of waste wood in Martin Kaltschmitt, Hans Hartmann, Hermann Hofbauer (eds.): Energy from biomass. Basics, techniques and procedures. Springer Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg 2009; P. 145. ISBN 978-3-540-85094-6
- ↑ § 2 no. 1 of the Waste Wood Ordinance
- ↑ Law for the Promotion of the Circular Economy and Securing the Environmentally Compatible Disposal of Waste: § 3 Definitions.
- ↑ § 2 No. 4 and Appendix III of the AltholzV
- ↑ § 10 AltholzV
- ↑ § 11 AlholzV
- ↑ § 5 AltholzV
- ↑ according to Annex III to § 5 AltholzV: Waste code 17 02 04 * or 19 12 06 * according to the regulation on the European Waste Catalog (AVV), therefore hazardous waste according to § 3 Paragraph 1 AVV.
- ↑ Section 326 (1) of the Criminal Code
- ↑ § 2 Clause 8 Waste Wood Ordinance according to the R1 process of Annex 2 to the KrWG
- ↑ § 11 AltholzV
- ↑ §8 AltholzV
