From January 15, 2021, all operators in the packaging market will be under the scrutiny of SIADT – Computer System for Tracking the Traceability of Packaging Waste: from organizations that implement implements the obligations regarding the extended liability of the manufacturers (OIREP), to collectors and recyclers, announced today the Secretary of State of the Ministry of Environment, Waters and Forests, Mircea Fechet.
“Just as the timber market needed to monitor everything that happens from the forest to landfills, so the waste market needed to digitalize and track 24 hours a day any operation involving packaging waste, and this will be possible due to SIADT,” said Mircea Fechet, state secretary within the Ministry of Environment, according to TVR.
The system is developed by the Environmental Fund Administration and is intended for reporting and tracking the traceability of packaging waste.
“Basically, with this system, the transition will be made from a market that today (in some cases) closes only on numbers, to one that will close on real quantities of waste. Thus, it will lead to the disappearance of the situations in which the collection or recycling was done only on paper,” the secretary of state said, according to Agerpres.
According to the ministry’s representatives, all market players will be required to prove the existence of the waste that is the subject of the transaction: before any transaction, the system requires the upload of two photos with the waste load and four photos with the means of transport, and the point of Waste loading will be monitored by GPS.
Another advantage of using this system is that possible illegal transactions can be blocked in real time.
“When the SIADT data indicates that the data between two or more actors involved in the same contract differs – we can immediately block this transaction and we can send control teams to verify the suspicion that appears in the system,” explained Mircea Fechet .
The purpose of creating SIADT is to increase the amounts of waste actually recycled in Romania, as well as to revoke those who do not have operating licenses.
“The black waste market in the country must disappear. And one more thing is needed: to stop mimicking recycling and boosting it to the maximum, even in the 12th hour. Romania has assumed goals and the road can only be one: to move from the country of storage to the country of recycling,” said the state secretary.