Hur kan ett kommunalt ansvar för insamling av textilier bidra till att skapa mer hållbara textilflöden? - En applicering av framtidsscenario på Malmöregionen
(2015) MVEK02 20151Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)
- Abstract
- The Swedish consumers consumed in 2014 13.1 kilo textilies, of this 8 kilogram was dicarded via household waste and used for energy production. European Union’s waste hierarchy avocates a higher rate of reuse and recycling for a more sustainable textile flow. The Swedish goverment is, therefor, working toward new laws and guidelines which can lead to an expanded responsibility for the municipalities in Sweden. This study examins how this duty can be used for a higher rate of reused and recycled material and if the collection of textilies by the municipalitys can be used in a more local textile flow in the Malmö region. By using top to bottom flowcharts this studie shows how the locally collected textilies from consumers are used. The... (More)
- The Swedish consumers consumed in 2014 13.1 kilo textilies, of this 8 kilogram was dicarded via household waste and used for energy production. European Union’s waste hierarchy avocates a higher rate of reuse and recycling for a more sustainable textile flow. The Swedish goverment is, therefor, working toward new laws and guidelines which can lead to an expanded responsibility for the municipalities in Sweden. This study examins how this duty can be used for a higher rate of reused and recycled material and if the collection of textilies by the municipalitys can be used in a more local textile flow in the Malmö region. By using top to bottom flowcharts this studie shows how the locally collected textilies from consumers are used. The results shows that most collectors are charitable organizations but there is a growing part of textilies collected by producers. There is no alternatives for local recycling but the chartable organizations reuse between 1 to 30 %, mostly by selling it back to consumers. The rest of the material is sold to sortingoperators located in Europe. After the sorting the material has a high rate of reuse and recycling but there are some problems with transparency on the final treatment. The resulat also shows by applying a future scenario created by Avfall Sverige on a top up bottom flowchart including the textilieflows that can fall under the responsobility of the municipalitys how the future textilieflow can looks like. It shows that four operators will loose what looks like their only inflow of textilies. Sysav is the operator in carge of waste manegement in the region. They will get more flows of textilies from recyclingsstations and recycling centers. The future rate of reuse and recycling along collected textilies is depending on the sortingoparator that Sysav choose as partner. The municipalitys can use the expanding recopnsiblity by choosing partners with high rate of reuse and recycling.Reuseble textilies can also be used locally trough inovartive projects and support for the local reperation of textilies This can lead to more sustaible textilies flows from and inside Malmö Seens most of the reuse and recycling happens after the material is professionaly sorted would the access to this kind of sorting nearby possible change the oppotunity for local reuse and recycling. The results of this study is adabtily to other areas in Sweden and recommends that future studies look at how other socioeconomic value is effected by changes in the reponsibilty of collecting textilie. (Less)
- Popular Abstract (Swedish)
- Inflödet av textiler så som kläder och hemtextilier till Sverige 2014 var 128 000 ton och dessa textiler går främst till försäljning via handeln (Naturvårdsverket, 2015). Detta innebär att importen av nya textiler 2014 var 13,1 kilogram per person (Naturvårdsverket, 2015). Utav dessa slängs 8 kilogram i hushållsavfallet och går till energiutvinning genom förbränning (Naturvårdsverket, 2015). Mängden textiler som såldes i butik för återanvändning eller skänktes till behövande av välgörenhetsorganisationer i Sverige 2013 var 8600 ton (Elander m.fl. 2014). Textilflödena nationellt är små sett till vikten men de ohållbara flödena har en stor miljöpåverkan genom produktionens höga resursåtgång och den ökade konsumtionen som leder till ökat... (More)
- Inflödet av textiler så som kläder och hemtextilier till Sverige 2014 var 128 000 ton och dessa textiler går främst till försäljning via handeln (Naturvårdsverket, 2015). Detta innebär att importen av nya textiler 2014 var 13,1 kilogram per person (Naturvårdsverket, 2015). Utav dessa slängs 8 kilogram i hushållsavfallet och går till energiutvinning genom förbränning (Naturvårdsverket, 2015). Mängden textiler som såldes i butik för återanvändning eller skänktes till behövande av välgörenhetsorganisationer i Sverige 2013 var 8600 ton (Elander m.fl. 2014). Textilflödena nationellt är små sett till vikten men de ohållbara flödena har en stor miljöpåverkan genom produktionens höga resursåtgång och den ökade konsumtionen som leder till ökat avfall och stora utsläpp (SOU 2012:56). Textil konsumtionen står idag för 2-3 procent av svenskarnas utsläpp av växthusgaser ur ett konsumtionsperspektiv (Naturvårdsverket 2015). En prognos visar att textilavfallet kommer öka (Naturvårdsverket, 2015). I Sverige finns idag ingen lagstiftning eller tydlig ansvarsfördelning kring hanteringen av textilavfall (Carlsson, 2011). Grundat på detta har Naturvårdsverket på uppdrag av regeringen satt igång arbetet för att skapa en mer hållbar textilhantering som siktar högre upp i EUs avfallshierarki med ökad återanvändning och återvinning (Naturvårdsverket, 2015). Ett förslag på åtgärder är då mer lättillgängliga insamlingssystem och informationskampanjer för att minska mängden textilier i hushållsavfallet (Naturvårdsverket, 2013). Man föreslår också producentansvar (Naturvårdsverket, 2015) Naturvårdsverket har därför fått i uppdrag att utreda ansvarsfördelningen mellan kommuner, producenter och aktörer (Palm, 2015).
Vid kontakt med Sysav som är en stor lokal aktör inom avfallindustrin uttrycktes ett intresse för en lokal undersökning över Malmös textilflöden idag samt hur mycket av textilierna i det lokala flödet som återvinns och återanvänds. Sysav får idag in en stor mängd textilavfall via hushållsavfall som förbränns men har också samarbeten kring textilinsamling då olika välgörenhetsorganisationer samlar in via kärl på deras återvinningscentraler, ÅVC. I övrigt samlas allt material förutom återbruk på ÅVC in av Sysav. (Less)
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- Mandahl, Philippa
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- MVEK02 20151
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- 2015
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- M2 - Bachelor Degree
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- keywords
- recycling, reuse, waste management, textile flow, charitable organizations, textileflow, textile waste, waste hierarchy.
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