Austria Glas Recycling

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Austria Glas Recycling
(AGR)
legal form GmbH
founding 1989 (legal form 1988)
Seat Vienna 2nd
precursor Austria Recycling - Association for the promotion of recycling and environmental protection in Austria
purpose Glass recycling
Managing directors Harald Hauke ​​Bernhard Karrer (Chairman of the Supervisory Board)
sales 22.4 million euros (license income)
Employees 10
Website www.agr.at
Official supervision: BMLFUW

The Austria Glas Recycling GmbH (AGR) is a non-profit organization , which in Austria for the unwinding of the packaging glass - Recycling is responsible. It is the industry recycling company for the packaging material glass in the Austrian recycling system Altstoff Recycling Austria  (ARA), which is under the official supervision of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (BMLFUW, Ministry of Life).

In Austria - similar to Switzerland, but in contrast to Germany for example - the processing of glass recycling (like the entire recycling of old materials) is largely a non-profit, not-for-profit industry, the waste disposal companies and recyclers themselves finance their activities through cost-covering, market-oriented prices.

history

Austria Glas Recycling was founded in 1989 as a limited liability company as a spin-off from the Austria Recycling association , which had built up the systematic permanent collection with substance-specific special collection containers in Austria in the 1960s and 70s. Founding shareholders of ARG were Vetropack Austria GmbH (Pöchlarn Lower Austria, mother Saint-Prex CH), Stölzle-Oberglas  AG (Köflach / Bärnbach, Styria) and Lutzky Glas  GmbH (Kremsmünster Upper Austria). Since Lutzky Glas was taken over by the Swiss Vetropack in 1993, the shares are now 50/50 between Vetropack and Stölzle.

In 2008/2009 all other industry recycling companies were incorporated into ARA AG, so that the ARA collection and recycling system today consists of ARA, AGR for glass, and ARA subsidiary ERA for electronic waste and batteries. This merger was a reaction to the worrying developments in Germany, where even the Duales System Deutschland , the inventor of the Green Dot , had to give up its non-profit status when it was taken over by an American investor-profit-oriented group of investors. The supporting associations of the other branches are today partly co-owners of ARA AG, partly as sole proprietorships. Since there are only two companies involved in packaging glass, and this sector is a special case (model area of ​​recycling, as well as the discussion about disposable or reusable containers and deposits ), AGR has been retained as an industry recycling company so far. In principle, other collection and recycling systems can also be approved within the framework of the EU directives on the free market , but no other system has yet been approved.

Agendas

In Austria (as of 2009), 211,600 tons of waste glass accounts for 7.0% of the waste from households and similar facilities (which total 3,895,000 tons / year), and a further 47,800 tons are disposed of with residual waste . Packaging glass (white glass and colored glass), which is collected in waste separation in areas close to the household, accumulates to the extent of 205,900 t / a (756,000 m³), ​​so it forms the major part of the waste glass, whereby a little over 25 kg (almost 70 liters) per inhabitant. A further 34,000 tonnes arise in the separately collected waste material from trade and industry , here relatively little is likely to end up in the residual waste. Glass increased by 11% between 2004 and 2009 ( waste materials collected separately from households by a total of 14.3%). The collection volume of the AGR was 214,431 tons in 2009, with a recycling rate of over 97% (amount transferred for recycling 208,621 tons), in 2010 the amount increased to 216,138 tons (recycled 209,904 tons).

The AGR organizes this packaging glass collection from private households and companies throughout Austria, in cooperation with the municipalities , private and municipal waste disposal companies , and regional experts. The main tasks are optimization in the collection system, for example with regard to costs, the logistics of the containers, stand locations, tours or emptying intervals, and the needs-based delivery as a secondary raw material to the glass industry. They operate according to the European environmental management Eco Management and Audit Scheme  (EMAS).

The legal basis for all waste management in Austria is the Waste Management Act  (AWG) and the Packaging  Ordinance (VerpackVO), which regulate the measures to avoid, reduce, recycle and dispose of waste. The aim is to relieve the environment and landfills of packaging waste and to integrate packaging into a circular economy. In particular, the law and ordinance regulate the approval of collection and recycling systems and their tasks and obligations, for example by specifying the collection rates to be achieved. Austria Glas Recycling is the  collection and recycling system approved in accordance with § 29 AWG for glass packaging in the household and commercial sector, and provides the acceptance and recycling guarantee for all licensed glass packaging and finances the packaging glass collection from license fees and waste glass revenues. The contract between ARA and AGR as an industry recycling company  (BRG) is based on the fact that no profit generation is intended.

Almost all of the separated packaging glass is recycled in Austria, while residual quantities due to demand and quality are exported for recycling to the neighboring countries of Italy, Germany and the Czech Republic.

In addition, AGR offers communication and advice for municipalities and waste associations, and takes care of public relations work on the right packaging glass collection. As in the entire ARA network, this includes advertising campaigns to raise awareness as well as extensive material on early education in schools.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Austria Glas Recycling GmbH. Commercial register data, Creditreform / firmenabc.at
  2. ↑ a b Watchlist March: New Managing Director for Austria Glas Recycling  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.handelszeitung.at   , handelszeitung.at, March 15, 2012
  3. ↑ a b c d ( page no longer available , search in web archives: company data as of March 25, 2012 )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.agr.at
  4. ↑ Employees - Austria Glas Recycling team. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 15, 2017 ; accessed on November 14, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.agr.at
  5. ^ Austria Recycling - Association for the promotion of recycling and environmental protection in Austria , herold.at
  6. ↑ a b ARA: Trend-setting development in waste management: ARA SYSTEM is reorganizing itself . Press release, APA OTS OTS0218 / June 27, 2008
  7. ↑ cf. For example, there is only beer left on the returnable bottle . derStandard.at, December 28, 2011
  8. ↑ a b The collection and recycling system of GUT - Galle Umwelttechnik  GmbH (Klosterneuburg) in the commercial sector and for disposable cutlery and cutlery (McDonald's restaurants) is also approved in principle for glass, but does not offer recycling for glass packaging in this sector.
    Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management: Collection and recycling systems for packaging Publication according to Section 29, Paragraph 4, last sentence AWG 2002, as of September 2011, Lebensministerium.at ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )     Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. → Environment → Waste and resource management → Packaging → Collection and recycling systems; List of packaging collection and recycling systems  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) For the scope of services, see Disposal & Recycling Paths  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , gut.at @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lebensministerium.at@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.lebensministerium.at  
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  9. ^ Ministry of Life, Section VI / 3 (Ed.): Federal Waste Management Plan 2011 . Vienna March 2012, 3rd consideration of selected waste streams , p. 36 ff . ( Link to pdf chapter 3 , bundesabfallwirtschaftsplan.at).
  10. ↑ Federal Waste Management Plan 2011 . Table of waste from households and similar institutions in 2009 - nationwide volume by individual parliamentary groups , p. 38 .
  11. ↑ Federal Waste Management Plan 2011 . Table of waste from households and similar institutions , p. 37 .
  12. ↑ Total waste from households and similar institutions: 466 kg / inhabitant, as of 2009. Federal Waste Management Plan 2011 . Table of waste from households and similar institutions in 2009 - nationwide volume by main groups , p. 37 .
  13. ↑ Federal Waste Management Plan 2011 . Table of residual waste from households and similar facilities - proportions of selected packaging (net mass) , p. 44 .
  14. ↑ Federal Waste Management Plan 2011 . Table of separately recorded packaging volumes in 2009 (calculated and rounded) , p. 38 .
  15. ↑ Federal Waste Management Plan 2011 . Table of waste from households and similar establishments in 2009 - masses and volumes (rounded) , p. 39 .
  16. ↑ Federal Waste Management Plan 2011 . Table of waste materials from households and similar institutions in 2009 (without sorted waste materials from MBT and splitting) - nationwide volume by individual fractions , p. 48 . Volume calculated using the factor conversion in kg / m3 in the table on p. 39
  17. ↑ White glass (packaging glass): 15,600 t, colored glass (packaging glass) 18,400 t. Federal Waste Management Plan 2011 . Table of waste materials from the separate collection from trade and industry in 2009 - volume by fractions , p. 57 .
  18. ↑ at best in the class waste from construction . In addition, 36,000 tons of flat glass (window glass, including crockery glass, drinking glass, mirror glass) are generated in the industry, which do not fall under the agenda of Austria Glas Recycling. Table, p. 57
  19. ↑ Federal Waste Management Plan 2011 . S. 48 , col. 2 .
  20. ↑ Collection and utilization in figures ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. → Collection and recycling services by the ARA system → 2009/2010, ara.at  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ara.at
  21. ↑ a b Services of Austria Glas Recycling GmbH ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , agr.at  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.agr.at
  22. ↑ Regulation (EEC) No. 1836/93 of the Council of June 29, 1993 on the voluntary participation of commercial companies in a community system for environmental management and environmental auditing (EMAS regulation), cf. emas.gv.at
  23. ↑ Legal framework ( memento of the original from March 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ara.at  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ara.at
  24. ↑ saying the Higher Administrative Court of 20 October 2009 (PDF) Annual number 2007/13/0029
  25. ↑ Federal Waste Management Plan 2011 . Section Flat Glass and Packaging Glass , p. 57 , col. 2 .
  26. ↑ For Educators (inn) s ( Memento of the original on 21 May 2012 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , agr.at  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.agr.at