green metal recycling point : a pilot program to combat cables’ insulation burning
DESCRIPTION
Presenation by Margarita Karavasili for the Pol - PRIMETT Tackling metal Theft - Sixth Expert User Group Meeting, Athens, 19.07.2012TRANSCRIPT
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Sixth Expert User Group Meeting
Athens, 19.07.2012
Pol - PRIMETT
Tackling metal Theft
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Ministry for the Environment, Energy & Climate Change
Special Secretariat for the Environment & Energy Inspectorate
Margarita Karavasili Special Secretary
Green Metal Recycling Point : A pilot Program to combat cables’ insulation burning
To protect the environment and public health
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Metal theft
Harms Caused by Scrap Metal Theft
Factors Contributing to Scrap Metal Theft
The Metals’ Market
Cables’ insulation burning
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Metal theft • Stealing valuable metal has become a serious concern for
• the police,
• businesses,
• public utilities,
• railroad companies,
• and the community at large
• The metals most commonly stolen are copper, aluminium, brass
and bronze
• Metal theft usually increases when worldwide prices for scrap
metal rise
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Metal theft
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Metal theft
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Harms Caused by Scrap Metal Theft
• Economic consequences for scrap metal theft within utilities
are immense.
• The cost of repairing damaged transformers or substations can run
anywhere from $500,000 to $11 million.
• Damaged power equipment resulting from scrap metal theft
also poses significant risk to utility repair teams as well as
offenders.
• Petty-metal thieves, deciding to steal metal/copper from high-
voltage substations, transformers, or electric high wires, may be
electrocuted, while trying to cut live wires.
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Factors Contributing to Scrap Metal Theft
• A combination of high demand for metal on the international
market, increased opportunities for offenders to target
places and metal types not previously susceptible to theft,
and weak regulation of the metals resale market have
coincided to increase the scrap metal theft problem.
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The Metals’ Market
• The rise in scrap metal theft is driven by offenders'
recognition that ample metal supplies remain
unguarded, and that the price of return remains
historically high based on heavy international demand.
• The metal market conditions made unsecured metal
susceptible to increased theft, while causing a boom in
scrap metal exports that increased the scrap metal theft
problem.
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Cables’ insulation burning …
… Sell the copper core for cash.
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BURNING CABLES’ INSULATION …
IN ORDER TO RETRIEVE METAL…
CAUSES …
• Production of smoke
• Production of a group of toxic chemicals, called dioxins.
• Residents’ complaints about breathing the fumes (but the dumps
were never cleaned up).
• Dioxins once formed do not degrade or become diluted in the
soil…
• …this becoming afterwards a hazardous waste
• Scorched earth contaminated with toxic chemicals.
• Charge of illegally depositing controlled waste
• Danger to the people's health
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POVERTY FORCES ROMA PEOPLE TO SCAVENGE TOXIC E-WASTE
• Persecuted Roma
communities are being
forced to scavenge for
dangerous e-waste,
potentially threatening
health and questioning
the country's recycling
policies
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30.000 ROMA live actually
in the greater Athens region
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Roma people living in slums on the fringes of Athens
Taking advantage of ineffective
waste recycling schemes
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Roma people living in slum
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ROMA LIVING IN ATHENS / VOTANIKOS REGION
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Since 10 years, the residents of the Tavros Municipality are protesting to the local government for toxic pollution provided by
Votanikos ROMA slum, caused by cables’ insulation burning… They demand to protect environment and public health
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THE REACTION OF THE MINISTRY
Actions taken by the Special Secretariat
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A collective work in collaboration with all related responsible bodies
A Road Map
Actions
Timetable
Social Consensus
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Stop cables burning
Control metal theft
Protect the environment and public health
Offer a real job
Support recycling
Integrate Roma people in the society
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Social integration of ROMA children
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A pilot program for Votanikos ROMA people
Establishment of a Recycling Green Point
in close collaboration with:
• local Authorities,
• citizens,
• Roma people,
• industry,
• ministies,
• inspectors,
• police,
• NGO,
• etc
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A long discussion in the Municipal Council
and a positive decision has been taken…
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The «Green Point» for metal recycling to be used by ROMA people living in the Votanikos area
The slum The Green Point
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The Green Point
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The Green Point
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«Green Point» for metal recycling in Europe
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«Green Point» for metal recycling in Europe
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ENFORCE INSPECTIONS
HELLENIC ENVIRONMENTAL INSPECTORATE CONTROLS
Inside the slum together with Public Health Inspectorate
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A picture… is worth a thousand words …
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HELLENIC ENVIRONMENTAL INSPECTORATE CONTROLS
Checking illegal scraps
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A picture… is worth a thousand words …
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A picture… is worth a thousand words …
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A picture… is worth a thousand words …
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A picture… is worth a thousand words …
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A picture… is worth a thousand words …
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A picture… is worth a thousand words …
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