Looking at Waste as a Resource is key for Resource Efficiency
Best Practices and Outlook from SUEZ Environnement A shared vision of what’s at stake Doing more with less José-Manuel Barroso • Using natural resources more efficiently • Continuing our current patterns of – Imagining products that consume less resource use is not an option during both the production and usage • They put too much pressure on our phases planet and make our economy more – Giving waste a second life as material or dependent on external supplies energy in a safe and controlled way • A smarter use of scarce resources is … Would bring many benefits therefore a strategic necessity, but also an economic opportunity – Conserve natural resources – Decrease dependency on primary • Through more resource-efficiency, resources and secure supply clearer long-term policies and joint – Reduce manufacturing costs and increase investments in green innovation, we are competitive position strengthening the basis for growth and jobs for our citizens and delivering on our – Reduce volume of ultimate waste climate and energy objectives – Reduce overall impact on the environment – Contribute to Climate Change Goals by reducing GHG emissions – Create local jobs
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Population Growth EU is dependent on Resources
Scarcity and dependency are increasing Resource prices are volatile and rising
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• Limit the negative impacts of human activity on health and the environment
• Give resources a second life in a controllable way: produce secondary raw materials and recover energy from waste
Waste management can achieve an Waste management and recycling industries in additional reduction in CO2 emissions of the EU generate a turnover of €95 billion and 146 Mt/year (19% EU 2020 target) provide between 1,2 and 1,5 million jobs
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• 10% bio-fuels • Eco-design • Green Public Procurement • Energy Efficiency • Energy Efficiency • REACH • Eco-label • ETS • Producer Responsibility
• Climate & Energy Package WFD ¾ 20% CO2 reduction • Quantitative targets ¾ 20% renewable energy ¾ Recycling È ¾ Energy efficiency ¾ LandfillingÔ • ETS • Qualitative targets • EU Recycling Society ¾ IED • End-of-Waste criteria
• Landfill Directive • Source Separation
WFD • 20% renewable energy target • Recycling È • R1 status for Energy-from-Waste • End-of-Waste criteria RE.gif
“Regulation aimed at a green, environmental friendly economy by resource reduction, energy efficiency, waste reduction and waste valorization” Examples of Resource Efficiency in Practice
Green Office TNT Closing the cycle for new flows LEED platinum certified EPS Packaging Foam -> GeoBlock > 95% recycling of building waste
SITA Agora Eco-Park Car dismantling with Renault Bottle 2 Bottle recycling 85% recovery rate (95% in 2015) “r-PET” for Evian-Volvic
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Opening of the State of the Art Recyfuel: making a dedicated fuels Plastic Sorting Center Rotterdam for the Cement Industry 80% Mat.Recycled Plastic Packages Saving Primary Fuels
State of the Art EfW plants Energy & Heat optimization One stop shop for McDonalds Eco-Park City Heating/Green Houses Sustainable & Efficient
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Producer Responsibility Packaging Regeneration of solvents Enabling Industry to fulfill its Saving Primary Resources obligations as efficiently as possible
Quantify sustainability: SITA CO2 scan Set the standard If you can measure it … you can manage it CO2 accounting waste management
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Prepare for the digital age: SITA Web shop Green logistics: On-board computer Optimizing transactions Saving fuel & optimizing back office
Green logistics in Paris Green Logistics Fully electric waste collection truck Water transport burnable waste
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Recycling as driver for a resource policy
• General – Think Europe – Continuity and Consistency of policy – Standardization – Balance between Environmental and Industrial objectives
• “Do more with less”: proceed with EU initiatives and develop drivers for recycling – Give the example with Green procurement – Enlarge the scope of eco-design and eco-label – Extended Producer Responsibility: strengthen the principle of the polluter pays
• Involve and Influence the consumer – Awareness raising – Eco-label – Source separation
• Stimulate R&D and value-chain collaboration – Eco-design & Design for Recycling, substitution, recycling, system changes, behavior…
• Scarcity as an industrial opportunity!
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Recycling as driver for a resource policy
• EU LPF – Coherent standards and LPF in WSR controls: prevent leakage
• “If you can measure it you can manage it” – Prioritize resources and set long term targets to catch recyclables • Scarcity, environmental pressure, EU competitiveness – Industry segment benchmarking as starting point for policy • Potential for sustainable gain of materials, energy, water, ..
• Do the mathematics – Cherish frontrunners but there is a need to involve critical mass of Industry and Consumers
• Use “Carrot and Stick” to stimulate offer and demand of recyclables – Bans, fines, taxation, stimulation? • Lower VAT for sustainable goods? • Minimum % of recyclables in products? – True environmental pressure part of overall product costs? • Taxation based on labor shifts to taxation based on consumption? • Explore market mechanism of recycling certificates
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SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT’s contribution to Resource Efficiency • 278 sorting centres • 99 composting platforms • 85 recovery facilities for WEEE • 12 M tons of secondary raw materials • 2.8 M tons of avoided emissions
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