POP and Hg emissions of waste facilities

A final report of a subproject on the global project “Verification of the State of the Art of Emissions of Priority Pollutants of Individual Industrial Branches” (small heating plants and waste facilities) was published by the Umweltbundesamt (German Federal Environment Agency).

In order to meet the requirements of the reporting obligation according to the Stockholm Convention for reducing persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and in order to support the POPs Regulation, all emissions of POPs (e. g. PCDDs /F, PCBs, PAHs etc.) from plants of the waste management industry and of crematoria shall be determined. The collection of the emission data was carried out by Müller-BBM based on literature research and on emission measurements carried out at plants of clients. The investigations were executed at four waste incineration plants, four sewage sludge incineration plants, old timber incineration plants, exhaust gas purification and crematoria with representative measurements. In order to make sure that the results are as representative as possible for the entire plants and installations in Germany, one important criterion was to select plants with different waste gas purification techniques.

The Final Report was published in April 2016 (121 pages, Texte | 38/2016) by the Umweltbundesamt in PDF format for a free download under the rubric "downloads".

Notified body according to § 29b Federal Pollution Control Act