Avfallshantering
På Härjeåns Nät AB, med fokus på energi- och materialåtervinning
This thesis was conducted at Mälardalen University in Västerås and Härjeåns Nät AB, mainly in Sveg. Härjeåns Nät AB is a network company that delivers electricity in Härjedalen municipality, Ånge Municipality, Ragunda and Bräcke municipality. The maintenance and dismantling of electricity and broadband networks generates a lot of waste. The purpose of this work is to present proposals on the management of the waste. The goal is that all of Härjeåns offices should have equal management for the waste and an overview of how to manage the various wastes. This will be a step toward ISO certifications ISO 9001:2008 for quality and ISO 14001:2004 for environment. Companies are obliged to know the laws and regulations that apply to operate the business and the waste generated as a result.The alignment of the work lays on the management suggestions, which has led to a short description of today?s situation, with deeper information of all laws and regulations that affects Härjeåns waste. Today?s state at the office in Sveg is that much different waste is placed in the same container that give rise to high costs for the company. Impregnated poles lack good management and hazardous waste needs concrete guidelines to follow. Metals are sorted well but may need an overhaul. Signs exist but are old and faulty.Waste occurs with many different characteristics and handling varies depending on the type of waste, geographic location and how well it is sorted. Sorting the materials correctly reduces disposal costs and may instead generate a replacement, for example sorting iron and other metals and sell them. The laws that affects waste management is the Environmental Code, Waste Regulation, Environmental Protection Agency's Code of Statutes 2004:10 and local directives.Härjeåns are required to have the right knowledge of hazardous waste and how it affects health and the environment, rules for handling and classification, documentation, and prevention. All hazardous waste requires entrepreneurs that have a special permit to transport it from the County Council. Other waste should be transported in an environmentally sound manner using approved and conscious entrepreneurs.Management suggestions of the waste is presented, requirements for entrepreneurs and waste stations is proposed, which partitions that are necessary, which laws that must be followed and what solutions there are.