Waste streams of the different EU countries were screened and it became obvious that there is a huge range of different definitions for several terms within the EU. Thus, standard definitions were sought and found in the system of the EWC-Stat (European Waste Code for Statistics).
With data from the Statistical Institute of the European Union (EUROSTAT), a gross selection was made within the waste stream categories defined under EWC-Stat: only streams/categories which were considered organic or partly organic were selected, resulting in the 13 waste stream categories. Subsequently, on one side, the data was used to identify the amounts of the selected waste streams in the current EU member states (28) and selected neighboring countries (e.g. Iceland, Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey). But on the other side, each country was screened more carefully to identify the sectors in which the waste streams are produced. These sectors are defined in the NACE Rev. 2 (Nomenclature statistique des activités économiques dans la Communauté européenne).
The waste streams/categories that are organic or partly organic and therefore potential input streams for the florafuel treatment plant were define and their generated amounts assessed. The resulting data was cross linked with the data on waste generating sectors from NACE-2. Sources and quantities of their origin and their current way of disposal or recycling will be named, respectively.
The potential waste categories were defined and their generated amounts per country have been shown graphically, as well as the amounts of the disposed fractions.
To further evaluate more in detail the potential of the different waste streams, the resulting data will be cross linked with the data on waste generating sectors from NACE-2. Sources and quantities of their origin and their current way of disposal or recycling will be named, respectively.
Before cross-linking the data, the waste streams selected were re-examined, to analyses only the most applicable streams for the florafuel process. Therefore, we excluded several streams due to the listed reasons in the deliverable. The remaining short-list of waste streams was analysed in more detail in the chapters. However, due to the broad definitions given by the European Commission (see 1.2); it is not possible to determine shares of single fractions in each waste stream. For a final evaluation and a selection of the most suitable biomass waste streams which should be processed with the florafuel technology further information should be compiled. This was done by a detailed literature research of analysis data for the selected biomass waste streams (digestate, biomass from garden prunings, organic fraction of municipal solid waste, vegetable waste from markets or similar waste). The biomass was characterised for two main reasons: to evaluate its suitability for the florafuel process and to provide the possibility to describe the change in the composition of the solid fuel after the treatment process.
