ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SWA TOOL IS AVAILABLE ONLY TO THE AIM@SHAPE NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE PROJECT (“THE AIM@SHAPE PROJECT”) CONSORTIUM MEMBERS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES AND USERS AUTHORISED BY YEDA (“AUTHORISED USERS”) AND IS SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS OF USE.

Please read the following Licence Agreement carefully before using the SWA Tool. By downloading or using the SWA Tool you agree to be bound by all the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, whereupon it shall constitute a legally binding agreement between you and YEDA. If you do not wish to be bound by this Agreement or if you are not an AIM@SHAPE Project consortium member or an Authorised User, please refrain from downloading or using the SWA Tool.

In this Agreement you shall be referred to as the “User”. 1. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, YEDA grants User a non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicenseable licence to download the SWA Tool via the World Wide Web only, from the http://www.cs.weizmann.ac.il/~swa/index.html website (the “Website”), by means of the password provided to User, and to use the SWA Tool solely for research purposes within the field(s) or framework approved by YEDA (the “Licence”).

2. User may not sell, lease, rent, sublicense, assign, export or otherwise transfer the SWA Tool and/or the rights of access to, or use of the SWA Tool, or any underlying information or technology, and/or any documents, CDs or any other tangible media representing, embodying or containing any of the aforegoing or portion thereof, to any person or entity.

3. At present, the Licence is granted free of charge. However, in the future the User may be requested to pay for access to and use of the SWA Tool. A notice will be posted on the Website or sent by e-mail, prior to such change.

4. The Licence shall become effective on the date User first accesses and/or downloads the SWA Tool and remains in force until terminated as provided in these ToU.

5. The WIS may modify the SWA Tool and/or the Website, including, without limitation, by the removal, reduction or addition of functionality, and/or modify, or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, or use of the SWA Tool or change and amend the Licence Agreement as provided in clause 18 below, including, without limitation, by adding terms that YEDA may be required to “pass through” to User as a result of a separate agreement between YEDA and a third party.

6. Any loss or damage caused to User arising out of or in connection with the use of the SWA Tool will be borne exclusively by User, and User agrees that neither the WIS nor YEDA nor any of their respective directors, offices or employees, shall have any liability for any such loss or damage; all of the foregoing without derogating from the provisions of clauses 10, 11 and 12 below.

7. The use of the SWA Tool hereunder is currently free of charge, however, as a condition of the grant of the Licence, prior registration by User and/or the provision by User of certain information to the WIS and/or YEDA, will be required. User agrees to: (i) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about User as required (such information, the “User Information”) and (ii) maintain and promptly update the User Information on the Website to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If User provides information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or if YEDA has reason to believe the same, then YEDA shall have the right to suspend or terminate the Licence and to refuse to provide User with any current or future access to and use of the SWA Tool.

8. The WIS and/or YEDA are entitled to monitor the access to and use of the Website and/or the SWA Tool, as long as no personally identifiable information is collected without User’s prior consent. The WIS and/or YEDA may use certain aggregate information related to the use of the Website and/or the SWA Tool, provided that such information will not include personally identifiable information, except as authorized by User. Notwithstanding the aforegoing, such personally identifiable information (if collected) may be provided by the WIS and/or YEDA to third parties in the good faith belief that such action is reasonably necessary to comply with applicable laws, legal process or to enforce this Agreement.

9. Neither the WIS nor YEDA shall provide (or be obligated to provide) User with any support relating to the use of the SWA Tool, except for online documentation which may be contained in the SWA Tool.

10. THE SWA TOOL IS PROVIDED ON AN ‘AS IS’ AND ‘AS AVAILABLE’ BASIS WITH ALL FAULTS. YEDA AND THE WIS MAKE NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO THE SWA TOOL AND/OR THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF ANY THIRD PARTY RIGHTS. WITHOUT DEROGATING FROM THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, YEDA DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SWA TOOL WILL MEET USER’S REQUIREMENTS OR THAT USE OF THE SWA TOOL WILL BE FREE OF INFECTION OR VIRUSES, ERROR-FREE, UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE OR WILL PRODUCE ACCURATE RESULTS. USER SHALL BEAR TOTAL AND EXCLUSIVE RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR THE USE OF THE SWA TOOL. WITHOUT DEROGATING FROM THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, USER SHALL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY RESULTING DAMAGE TO USER’S COMPUTER SYSTEMS OR LOSS OF DATA.

11. USER AGREES THAT THE WIS, YEDA AND their RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, officers and employees (THE “INDEMNITEES”) SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIMS, DEMANDS, LIABILITIES, COSTS, LOSSES, DAMAGES OR EXPENSES (INCLUDING LEGAL COSTS AND ATTORNEYS’ FEES) OF WHATEVER KIND OR NATURE CAUSED TO OR SUFFERED BY ANY PERSON OR ENTITY (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, USER), THAT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISE OUT OF OR RESULT FROM OR ARE ENCOUNTERED IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXERCISE OF THE LICENCE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE SWA TOOL, OR BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT OR VIOLATION OF ANY RIGHTS OF ANY THIRD PARTY (ALL OF THE FOREGOING, COLLECTIVELY, “CLAIMS”). WITHOUT DEROGATING FROM THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, THE INDEMNITEES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOST DATA OR LOST PROFITS WHETHER ARISING FROM OR BASED ON TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE.

12. User agrees to indemnify and hold the Indemnities harmless from and against any Claims as referred to in clause 11 above.

13. The Licence will automatically terminate if User does not comply with this Agreement. Without derogating from the foregoing, either Yeda or User may terminate the Licence and the agreement between Yeda without notice, at any time, for any reason. Upon termination of the Licence and/or said Agreement, for any reason whatsoever, User shall immediately cease to use the SWA Tool and shall remove the SWA Tool from User’s computers. The provisions of clauses 10, 11 and 12 above and clauses 14 and 15 below shall survive the termination of this Agreement for any reason.

14. User acknowledges and agrees that the SWA Tool, including, without limitation, text, data, compilation, software, graphics or other material contained in the SWA Tool contain proprietary and confidential information of YEDA that is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws. User shall not copy, reproduce, distribute or create derivative works of or otherwise modify the SWA Tool or any or the foregoing or part thereof.

15. User agrees not to reverse engineer, recompile, disassemble, copy or otherwise attempt to discern the source code of the SWA Tool or any component thereof.

16. Changes and amendments to these ToU shall be published on http://www.cs.weizmann.ac.il/~swa/index.html and become effective upon the date of publication. User will not receive a personal notice of such changes and amendments. User agrees to monitor the Website regularly for notices of such changes. By continuing to access and/or use the SWA Tool after such changes and amendments become effective, User shall be deemed to have accepted the modified ToU.

17. User agrees to access and use the SWA Tool in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. User agrees not to use the SWA Tool for any illegal or wrongful purposes.

18. If any provision of these ToU is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such provision shall be substituted by a provision which achieves to the greatest extent possible, the same effect as would have been achieved by the invalid provision and all other provisions shall remain in full force and effect.

19. YEDA’s failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these ToU shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

20. These ToU shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Israel, without regard to or application of choice of law rules or principles. User hereby consents to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts in Tel-Aviv-Jaffa, Israel.

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~swa/page.htm

Coordinator: Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Abfallwirtschaft und Altlasten

This project addresses the serious environmental concerns of waste-caused pollution and intensive materials utilisation, using a series of workpackages designed to increase knowledge about the effectiveness of variable rate pricing as a policy option for reducing household discards, particularly those destined for final disposal.

Pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) substitutes for flat rates and is meant to provide incentive to households to divert an increased portion of its discards away from traditional disposal to recycling. Both waste reduction and recycling are priorities of community environmental policy. Implementation has been so far been carried out in towns and small communities.

The focus of this proposal are large metropolitan areas where different framework conditions impact on feasibilty and require other solutions to be applied. Research efforts are directed on the scientific analysis of the approach, surrounding factors, potentials and impacts in the city environment and best practice solutions and recommendations.

www.payt.net

Development of a Standardised Methodology Tool for Waste Analyses (Solid Waste) in Order to Enhance the Precision & Comparability of Analysis Data. This project focuses on the development of a standardised methodology (guideline) for solid waste analyses.

The application of this methodology shall enhance the quality, comparability and availability of waste data. Based on this newly developed methodology waste analyses were carried out in five different cities (Newcastle, Bilbao, Brescia, Krakow, Brasov) in order to demonstrate the applicability of the methodology.

The scientific objective of the practical part is the verification and modification of the developed methodology. By means of this user-friendly methodology the user may carry out waste analyses in an efficient and simple way. This includes the definition of minimum standards for waste analyses (e.g. statistical minimum standards), which have always to be observed in order to guarantee the comparability with other analyses results.

SWA-Tool in action: the Sorting procedure of daily household and commercial waste, Newcastle, EnglandSeparate Collection System in Krakow, Poland

The manual presents the approach taken by Procura+, ICLEI’s Sustainable Procurement Campaign – an approach based around five milestones, and a set of easy-to-apply key purchasing criteria for six high-priority product groups – buses, construction, cleaning products and services, electricity, food, and IT equipment.

The manual was published by Ökom Verlag in Januar 2004. To order your copy, visit www.oekom.de/verlag/german/books/clement-erdmenger_cities.htm for more details.

The Handbook is 200 pages and is in English. Information is offered at a cascade level from very general to very detailed to meet the needs of the different interest groups. Many of the conclusions are backed from associated studies on PAYT related aspects such as the current charging situations and waste separation potentials done in a local context.

The Handbook together with the results dealing with aspects related to local feasibility and program design helps especially in countries which either showed to have a vivid interest to give PAYT a trial in the frame of pilot projects or were on the verge of adopting such scheme.

The Handbook is available on request by writing to bookorders@payt.net

For further information on PAYT see also: www.payt.net

An handbook is available, with all the documents and the reports produced during the ORMA project. More information is available from www.cittadellelanghe.it/orma-en.htm and from wastesolutions@iclei.org.

	(i) a waste prognostic model, which will allow the prediction of future waste generation and
	(ii) a sustainability assessment tool. The latter will enable the economic, environmental and social assessment of various waste management scenarios.

The draft versions of both tools will be developed and used in case studies in the course of the year 2004. By August 2005 both tools, including a handbook in several languages will be freely available from the project web-site:

www.iwar.bauing.tu-darmstadt.de/abft/Lcaiwm/Main.htm

This guideline describes a representative sampling and manually sorting approach in order to analyse the composition (plastic, organic, paper..) and the produced quantity of residual solid waste.

The following parts are included in the guideline:

	Guideline describing the planning and execution of an analysis of solid waste
	Sorting catalogue including specified waste categories
	Reporting guideline to get common reports in order to compare waste analysis results
	Excel tables for the evaluation of the analyzing results

One of the main features of this guideline is user-friendliness.

Download SWA Methodology (PDF, 617Kb) and the SWA Tool Evaluation Sheets (Excel, 79Kb).

DEWA – Database for the evaluation of waste analyses

DEWA has been set up within the 5th framework EU project ‘Development of a methodological tool to enhance the precision and comparability of solid waste analysis data – S.W.A.-Tool’.

The database system DEWA provides practical support for the evaluation of waste analyses, according to the proposed methodology of the S.W.A.-Tool for carrying out waste analyses.

The prerequisite for the use of DEWA is that the waste analysis to be evaluated has been conducted in compliance with the S.W.A.-Tool methodology. This means in particular that the waste sample has to consist of a set of randomly selected sampling units of similar size and that sorting results are available for each sampling unit.

Download the Manual of the DEWA Database (PDF, 245Kb).

The installation CD-ROM for the DEWA database system can be requested from: office@ic-vienna.at.

More information on the SWA-Tool and DEWA is available from iC consulenten Ziviltechniker GmbH at:  www.swa-tool.net

The product module is a simulation software to be used in municipal decision-making processes for evaluating waste management systems and scenarios. The software is based on best practices in process analysis and simulation, including energetic and economic aspects, of the whole management system: collection, transport, recycling, biological treatment, thermal treatment, landfill.

The methodology the simulation software employs helps to answer real problems in sustainable municipal solid waste management, disposal and reuse in cities, case by case.

BRGM is currently using the software and methodology while many of the AWAST parters are now enabled to install the simulator. Cities can ask for a simulator (realised on commercial basis) and receive training on how to use it, or any good engineer could use an existing simulator to test small changes. The simulator can be started from scratch or an existing simulator can be run. BRGM intends to offer services to cities interested in employing the tool.

What about costs? The basic USIM PAC module costs 5 000€. Its acquisition should be included in the preliminary order to realise a simulator. A full simulator, depending on the complexity of the system, can cost between 20 000 and 200 000€. For the time being, the AWAST module is available for free.

To get an idea of how the simulator works, a presentation on a case study in Orleans, France can be downloaded from awast.brgm.fr or a .ZIP file can obtained from BRGM by requesting an installation CD and a dongle (copy protection). Write to BRGM at: awast@brgm.fr. 

Check the AWAST website for feedback coming in from running projects (mainly Orleans and Paris), to see the real world results of applying the simulator and methodology.

BRGM is also currently open to proposals involving R&D partnerships to improve the software.

More information: awast.brgm.fr