Green Jobs with Re-Use Matthias Neitsch, April 2016 1 Sustainable Consumption: emotional basis
Recycling does not question traditional consumtion patterns. Re-Use does!!!
2 recycling versus re-use....
3 recycling versus re-use....
4 recycling versus re-use....
5 disposal versus re-use....
6 Legal Framework of Re-Use
Waste Hierarchy: EU-Waste Framework Directive 2008:
Non- flea-markets, online-platforms repair + prolonged use Prevention Waste material donations
Re-Use-goods from „Re-Use“ clearing-service Preparing Re-Use-goods from municipal
R collection centres for Re-Use W
e Re-Use-goods from
c bulky waste collection o a v source material from waste e s „Re-Design“ Re-Assembling from waste
Recycling r (-equipment, -bicycles etc.) y t
other e Recovery Disposal Currently there is growing demand for used, cheap quality goods, but not enough supply, because many potentially re-usable goods are destroyed in recycling or landfill. It must be our goal to change this!
Re-Use - Jobs jobs per 10.000 t of municipal waste: incineration: 1 landfill: 6 Recycling-value chain: 36 Re-Use-value chain: 300 - 800 => Re-Use is economically feasible!
9 Re-use: Saving ressources creates jobs
+ x 5 years x 5 years x 5 years x 5 years
x 10 years x 10 years
10 Social re-use enterprises reduce social costs & poverty. They produce more regional benefit than they receive subsidies. => re-use is economically feasible!
1 1 Jobs durch Re-Use 150 new jobs in Austria by re-use of washing machines!
12 WEEE-re-use
13 Mass Potential WEEE-Re-Use Pilot action in municipal collection centre Nenzing, 2014:
WEEE collected ● 1.580 kg WEEE collected 100% ● separately as potentially 4,4 kg/cpt.a ● reusable ● = 18% of total collected ● big & small appliances For Recycling / Recovery poten ally ● 1.040 kg or 118 pieces ● effectively sold 82% reusable18% ● = 65 mass% of WEEE ● collected separately as ● potentially reusable recycled / recovered sold / ● 58% of pieces of WEEE ● collected separately as 88% reused potentially reusable 3,9 kg/cpt.a 12%; 0,5 ● 12% of total collected big & kg/cpt.a small appliances Quelle: TB Hauer 14 Example: textile collection OldestOldest re-use-collection:re-use-collection: textilestextiles ● collection textiles and shoes: Potential:Potential: 35.000 t/year: ca. 4,3 Kg/capita 14001400 Jobs!Jobs! ● percentage sale in Austria by social economy: ca. 5% of total collection ca. 13% of social economy collection ● percentage of social economy collection of total collection: ca. 35 – 40% ● total Re-Use (inland and abroad) ca. 50% of total collection 15 Example: construction & demolition SoSo farfar unrealizedunrealized potential:potential: demolitiondemolition // constructionconstruction
● Re-Use Potential ca. 5 - 80% of mass of building, depending on age and condition, total ca. 10% ● ca. 3 Mio t demolition waste / year in Austria ● => Re-Use-Potential at 10% = 300.000 t! ● =>=> ca.ca. 18.000 new Jobs ● 60% CO2-reduction ● Good Practices in D, CH, B, F, UK 16 EU Circular Economy – package, Dec. 2015:
JobsJobs throughthrough CircularCircular EconomyEconomy
● Flanders: 1% of total municipal waste curently re-used, 78 Jobs per 1000 t Re-Use ● would mean for Austria: 3.000 Jobs – currently not realized! ● WRAP-Study 2015: Jobs in Circular Economy, Austria: currently 62.000 (55% repair / secondhand; 27% waste / recycling; 18% loan services) Scenario 1 (Status quo prolongated): plus 5.000 Scenario 2 (current trends prolongated): plus 25.000 Scenario 3 (ambitious): plus 55.000
17 regional (provincial) re-use - networks More than 150150 OrganisationsOrganisations involved (social,
municipal, private)! Upper Austria Lower Austria Implementation of re-use no implementation network nearly finished; activities yet Federal Ministry of Environment: growing re-use-amounts; Standards, regulations, coordination, re-use box know how exchange: Vienna national re-use-platform City runs 2 own re-use shops Salzburg with social enterprise as Feasibility study, subcontractor pilot actions
Pannonia Masterplan, Pilot actions, roll out in progress; re- Vorarlberg use box feasibility study, Tirol second pilot phase feasibility study, Styria second pilot phase Carinthia finished, full various decentralized finished roll out in no implementation implementation of implementatuion progress activities yet WEEE re-use 2016 activities supported by Source: Österreichisches Ökologie-Insitut 2012, adapted by M. Neitsch 18 province Good Practices Upper Austria: quality label „ReVital“
● 85 collection points (of 185 municipal waste collection centres)
● 8 social re-use facilities
● 17 Re-Use-Shops in all districts
● 2014: 706 t sold (without textiles, without donations)
● 1,4 Mio inhabitants
● 240 jobs 19 Good Practices
ReVital-Shop & Label
20 Regional Re-Use - Networks
TyrolTyrol
21 Regional Re-Use - Networks
22 Regional Re-Use - Networks StyriaStyria
23 Re-Use - Shop
24 Upcycling Design
25 Good Practices
26 Good Practices
Furniture re-use partnership Styria
27 RepaNet
RepaNet: re-use needs a lobby!
● special interest group of social re-use enterprieses and repair networks in Austria
● currently 28 full members, 5 sustaining members
● working for better framework conditions for re-use
● promoting job creation for disadvantaged persons in the field of re-use
28 RepaNet
RepaNet topics:
● re-use
● repair services, repair cafés, repair do-it-yourself- seminars
● recycling, up-cycling-design
● secondhand, used goods
● re-design, trash-design, upcycling
● WEEE
● textile collection, sorting, sales
● new: re-use in construction and demolition 29 Thank you for your attention! RepaNet – Re-Use- and Repair Network Austria Association for re-use, resource protection and employment in environmental services A - 1040 Wien, Trappelgasse 3/1/18, Austria www.repanet.at
Matthias Neitsch managing director [email protected] +43 / 699 / 100 51 038