Waste - Outlook 2020 (Croatia)

SOER 2010 Common environmental theme (Deprecated)

Topics: Resource efficiency and waste

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SOER Common environmental theme from Croatia

Topic: Waste

Published: 26 Nov 2010 Modified: 11 May 2020

The Waste Management Strategy [1] set quantitative targets for waste amounts and waste landfills and recovery and recycling allowances for certain types of waste. Improvement of the separate collection and recycling/recovery systems, increase in population coverage by organized municipal waste collection, and activities related to construction of a number of waste management centres are some of indicators of a progress towards the achieving the set targets. Fulfilling the target that only residual waste is disposed will be greatly contributed by construction of the waste management centres which will provide for adequate treatment of municipal waste and considerably reduce its biodegradable fraction.

Table 2. Quantitative targets for waste quantities [1]

Targets	Share (%) / year
Targets	2005	2010	2015	2020	2025
Population included in organised collection of municipal waste	80	85	90	95	99
Amount of separately collected and recycled municipal waste	6	8	12	18	25
Amount of treated municipal waste	2	10	20	25	30
Amount of disposed municipal waste	95	80	68	58	45
Amount of disposed biodegradable municipal waste out of the amount generated in 1995	95	85	75	55	35

Table 3. Quantitative targets for landfills [1]

Targets	Year
Targets	2005	2010	2015	2020	2025
Regional waste management centres	0	1-2	2-3	3	4
County waste management centres	0	3-7	7-10	10-14	14-21
Official landfills (legal disposal sites, sites in the process of being legalised, official sites, negotiated sites)	187	100	50	30	14-21
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Table 4. Recovery and recycling allowances for some types of waste [1]

Waste	Deadline	Allowance (% of weight)
Waste	Deadline	recovery	recycling
Packaging waste	2010 2015	50 – 60 65	25 – 45 55 – 60
End-of-life vehicles	2015 2025	85 95	80 85
EE waste 4 kg/capita/year	2015	70 – 80	50 –80
Waste vehicle tyres	2010 2015	70 – 80 90	60 – 70 70
Waste oil	2010	90	-

Table 5. National targets for the share of returnable packaging in the total quantity of packaging put on the market by product [4]

Type of product:	Annual targets for returnable packaging in %
2008	from 2009 to 2013
Wine	25
Other alcoholic drinks	25
Beer	75
Juices and other soft drinks	25
Spring and table mineral water	25

The target set by the Ordinance on Waste Batteries and Accumulators management [10] is to achieve:

· collection rate of at least 25% by 26 September 2012, and

· collection rate of at least 45% by 26 September 2016.

The amount of construction waste generated in the 2001-2005 period is estimated at 1,254,152 tonnes, and for the 2006–2015 period the estimate is 2,345,273 tonnes [11].