CENTRAL EUROPE Output Library

The CENTRAL EUROPE Programme helps to improve living and working conditions in your region. Take a look at the CENTRAL EUROPE Output Library to find out what our projects do.

The Output Library collects (case) studies, surveys, analyses, inventories, guidelines and other interesting products from all our projects. Each output is connected with specific keywords.

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Status of waste collectors

This study provides the status of waste collectors and their income from waste picking (in comparison to the main income in their home countries).

Project:TransWaste – Formalisation of informal sector activities in collection and transboundary shipment of wastes in and to CEE
Countries:Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia
Tag(s):Environment, Waste management, Social change
Data evaluation of country specific end-of-life management

Each participating country has its own ways of end-of-life routes for different products. Although each country underlies the same European Regulations and Directives, there are slightly different routes taken for certain products as this is dependent on the facilities available in those countries. To detect the different end-of-life routes each partner country described in this document the EOL options in their country.

Project:TransWaste – Formalisation of informal sector activities in collection and transboundary shipment of wastes in and to CEE
Countries:Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia
Tag(s):Waste management
Formalisation of informal sector – Possibilities of formalisation- Analysis of legislation

In this study general possibilities of formalisation are summarised by the use of literature research, compilation of stakeholder ideas and the expert opinion at the expert conference organized by the TransWaste project team.

Project:TransWaste – Formalisation of informal sector activities in collection and transboundary shipment of wastes in and to CEE
Countries:Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia
Tag(s):Waste management
Stakeholder standpoints on formalisation of informal sector

This document provides an overview of stakeholders interviews and their standpoints on formalisation of informal end-of-life management.

Project:TransWaste – Formalisation of informal sector activities in collection and transboundary shipment of wastes in and to CEE
Countries:Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia
Tag(s):Waste management
Favourable regions for formalisation of informal sector activities in collection and transboundary shipment of wastes

Report on strategic favourable regions with good legal and economic conditions and willing stakeholders (formal and informal) to implement case studies in waste management.

Project:TransWaste – Formalisation of informal sector activities in collection and transboundary shipment of wastes in and to CEE
Countries:Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia
Tag(s):Waste management
Economic Assessment of informal collected waste compared to formal collected waste

Every year illegal collected items leave European borders, whereas the amounts are difficult to quantify. The assessment looks at economic characteristics of transhipments.

Project:TransWaste – Formalisation of informal sector activities in collection and transboundary shipment of wastes in and to CEE
Countries:Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland
Tag(s):Waste management
Comparison of LCA for informal and formal collected waste

A comparative assessment of the formal and the informal collected waste.

Project:TransWaste – Formalisation of informal sector activities in collection and transboundary shipment of wastes in and to CEE
Countries:Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia
Tag(s):Waste management
Formalisation alternative

Out of possible formalisation activities promising alternatives are chosen and the possibilities, chances and constraints for real implementation are checked.

Project:TransWaste – Formalisation of informal sector activities in collection and transboundary shipment of wastes in and to CEE
Countries:Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia
Tag(s):Waste management
Implementation of formalisation

In the course of the TransWaste project different formalisation options have been developed. In this paper different formalisation ideas are described and their legislative aspects are discussed.

Project:TransWaste – Formalisation of informal sector activities in collection and transboundary shipment of wastes in and to CEE
Countries:Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia
Tag(s):Waste management
Implementation of formalisation – legislative aspect

In this paper legislative issues concerning the formalisation of waste ideas are described.

Project:TransWaste – Formalisation of informal sector activities in collection and transboundary shipment of wastes in and to CEE
Countries:Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia
Tag(s):Waste management
Implementation strategy for formalisation of waste

Summary of workshops and conferences on implementation
possibilities of the waste collection.

Project:TransWaste – Formalisation of informal sector activities in collection and transboundary shipment of wastes in and to CEE
Countries:Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia
Tag(s):Waste management
Transnational Action Plan for the Formalisation of informal sector activities in collection and transboundary shipment of wastes in and to CEE

Project:TransWaste – Formalisation of informal sector activities in collection and transboundary shipment of wastes in and to CEE
Countries:Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia
Tag(s):Waste management
BIOCHAR STATUS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW AND REGULATORY ISSUES FOR THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION

The objective of this work was to discuss the concept of integrating biochar properties with environmental and socioeconomic factors, in a sustainable biochar certification procedure that optimizes complementarity and
compatibility between these factors over relevant time periods.

Project:E2BEBIS – Environmental and Economic BEnefits from BIochar clusterS in the Central area
Countries:Czech Republic, Italy, Poland, Slovenia
Tag(s):Renewable energy, Energy efficiency, Waste management
Quality Management Manual for the re-use process chain

This manual introduces company employees and customers to the organisational structure of the Quality Management System (QMS). It is modelled on the process-oriented approach in ISO 9001:2008 and implements the requirements of this standard

Project:CERREC – Central Europe Repair & Re-use Centres and Networks
Countries:Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia
Tag(s):Waste management
Report on implementation models for repair and re-use networks

This report serves as a foundation / basis for the development of an implementation handbook that will contain a detailed guideline for the whole value chain from collection to retail for the different product categories for interested institutions, organisations and authorities.

Project:CERREC – Central Europe Repair & Re-use Centres and Networks
Countries:Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia
Tag(s):Waste management