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This Issue: Gone to Waste the UK Wastes £650 Million Worth of Recyclable Material Each Year Issue 4 Devon Community Recycling & Community Composting Network News This issue: Gone to Waste The UK wastes £650 million worth of recyclable material each year. How High Can we Go Flanders leads the way with maximum recycling. Making Computer Use Greener: Did you know - A Google search uses as much energy as boiling a kettle Features: Gone to Waste Gone to 1 The UK wastes £650 millionworth of recyclable material each year. How High Can We Go 4 Flanders can teach us about Waste maximising waste. The UK wastes £650 San Francisco - dig it tents 8 San Francisco starts million worth of mandatory composting after 72% recycling success. recyclable material ‘BOGOF’ Later each year 10 supermarket landfill issues Transition Town Totnes 12 low carbon community 13 Home Grown Community This Junk Mail was written by Nicky Scott Owned (HogCO) and Richard Gomme. A CCD project funded by the Big Designed by Isolde Brampton-Greene with Lottery Fund’s Local Food Scheme illustrations by Bob Gale (Proper Job) Making Computer Use Printing by MoorPrint. 14 Contact Details Greener Please send copy/pictures/drawings for Get off the screen and into Bob to develop to: the garden Richard Gomme Symbols for Packaging Devon Community Recycling Network 16 Chapel Cottage, Thorn, Chagford, Devon, and Plastics Recycling The UK wastes £650 million worth turn them into new cans and TQ13 8DX. Tel: 01647 433872 of recyclable material each year. renewable energy? Why use email: [email protected] 18 Recycling News “We need to rethink how we more resources than we need www.dcrn.org.uk view and treat waste in the to in manufacturing? We must Nicky Scott Devon Community Composting Network 20 Book Review: UK. Why do we send valuable now work together to build a 8 Meldon Road, Chagford, Devon, TQ13 8BG Bio Char items like aluminium and food zero waste nation - where we Tel: 01647 432923 the biochar debate waste to landfill when we can reduce the resources we use, email: [email protected] www.dccn.org.uk by James Bruges Gone to Waste 1 reuse and recycle all that we an estimated 19m tonnes of C02 products for our economies. annum throughput at Lee Mill can and only landfill things that equivalent, roughly equivalent Green campaigners point to the in South Hams, which would have absolutely no other use”. to taking 6m cars off the road. real costs of waste – firstly in the deal with waste from Plymouth, “To do this all of us - government, On an EU scale the figures are product manufacture and purchase Torbay, and south and west local authorities, businesses and massive – potential estimated cost, then in the waste collection Devon. There is some opposition. and waste disposal costs, and lastly Green campaigners point to in other environmental terms such the need to reduce & prevent as co2 emissions, loss of embodied waste and recycle more with a energy, pollution, and remediation. background of resource depletion, Logic points towards waste peak oil and climate change. prevention and maximum recycling/ For more details of Devon plans composting as top priorities. see http://www.plymouth. Bans gov.uk/swdwp.html In assessing ways of improving the For details of FoE’s report ‘Gone situation, FoE said it considered to Waste’ and other papers on landfill and incineration bans waste, resources and climate on recyclable materials as “a change visit http://www.foe. valuable policy tool in driving co.uk/resource/index.shtml recycling performance upward”. Alongside current efforts to recycle more, UK authorities are consumers - must do our bit. savings of 148m tonnes of C02 considering either incineration/ And we must make this moment equivalent, roughly equivalent to Energy from Waste (EfW) or the turning point on our journey taking 47m cars off the road. Mechanical Biological Treatment to eliminate wasteful waste.” Dr Michael Warhurst, senior (MBT) as a way to reduce landfill Secretary of State Hilary Benn resource use campaigner at and avoid penalties which will A recent report by Friends of the Friends of the Earth, said: “It’s be incurred if they fail to meet Earth, ‘Gone to Waste’, claims that time we recognised the real landfill waste diversion targets. the UK landfills and incinerates 24 value of the materials we throw MBT extracts recyclables from million tonnes of easily recyclable away every day. We only have residual waste by sorting processes material every year, worth over one Earth and its resources are before stabilisation through £650m. These resources could finite - making better use of composting. In Devon, the South be recycled - saving energy, CO2 them would save money and West Devon Waste Partnership emissions, create thousands of new help tackle climate change.” is in the procurement process green jobs, be a key driver for a low Much of the consumption for a 25 year approx. £1bn carbon economy, and help mitigate of resources and associated waste disposal contract. Viridor climate change. If recycled this environmental impacts goes are proposing to build an EfW would have represented a saving of on overseas to make consumer plant with 275,000 tonnes per The Weee Man at the Eden Project 2 Gone to Waste Gone to Waste 3 Maximising Waste Devon recycling centres the rate is waste, reuse and recycle. about 80% recycling/composting. Flanders has about 6m people, For kerbside recycling two Devon including Antwerp with 470,000 Districts are in the national top 6– inhabitants, which has poverty, How high Teignbridge and South Hams both high migrations, lots of tourism around 57%, with the Cotswolds and students, but still manages (60%) and Staffordshire Moorlands 61.5% recycling. By 2010, first on 61.5%. That’s a great Flanders is aiming for 75% can we achievement, but waste remains a recycling, with targets for 2% big problem. Local Authorities are waste prevention per year (eg at a cross roads where more bio- packaging, nappies, paper), to degradable waste must be diverted collect 10kg per inhabitant for go! from landfill to meet targets, huge reuse shops, and for a far reaching amounts of valuable resources still de-coupling between economic go to waste, disposal is getting growth and waste generation. In this issue we report on two ever more expensive, and waste prevention and reduction remain Pre-paid collection fees (in the cost places breaking the 70% recycling of bin liners), taxes and charges are ‘glass ceiling’ and look at the primary challenges. Tough decisions are being taken concerning waste used. For example, a 60 litre bag potential to raise recycling & of mixed waste collection costs composting in Devon higher. disposal technologies such as Energy from Waste incineration. between 0.75 and 2.5 euros, and Flanders in Belgium and San How high can recycling go in urban areas, between 2.5 and Francisco both recycle and compost in Devon? 3.75 euro per 120litre wheeled bin 72% of their waste. They are collection. Dumping is not now aiming even higher, with San Flanders – a problem. Francisco introducing mandatory high recycling case study Home composting is big - 25% composting for bio-waste from all There are key factors underlying of households do it. Free chickens households and businesses which Flanders success. They are waste are available for residents to could take the rate above 80%. prevention and reuse, home encourage the use of kitchen Flanders admits it is only capturing composting, variable charging scraps as feed. There are 5 trained 40% of food waste, but still tariffs for different wastes, volunteer master-composters per getting 72% recycling/composting recycling yards/centres, source 10,000 inhabitants who explain rate, and it is aiming even higher! segregated kerbside collections, how to compost at home, backed In this issue we report on two places Devon is now recycling and producer responsibility and retailer by communication and education breaking the 70% recycling ‘glass composting over 53%, as are many collections, and limiting residual campaigns. Neighbourhood ceiling’ and look at the potential others, with Plymouth and Torbay waste treatment capacity to composting is promoted in urban to raise recycling & composting in about 32% (this is without food the minimum (incineration) to areas, so people in flats can take Devon higher. waste collection in many areas). At maintain an incentive to prevent materials to communal compost 4 How high can we go! How high can we go! 5 areas. The capture rate for food Retailer take-backs include waste is food). Application of of resource conservation. Local waste collections could be higher, pharmaceuticals, ink cartridges residual waste sorting processes, Authorities require more resources. with 40% of residual waste & batteries (one box per 500 such as those used in MBT At Recycling Centres rates can go being food. inhabitants). Waste electrical (Mechanical Biological Treatment above 80% if source segregation items and used car tyres are where waste is mechanically sorted Waste prevention and eco-design can be better enforced. This accepted by retailers even if a prior to composting to extract initiatives target households, includes more vigilance at the new product is not purchased. maximum amount of recyclables) schools, events, shops, and tipping point and better storage coupled with targeted enforcement businesses, and green procurement Flanders cites key lessons. Source and selling facilities so more items on participation could smash the is encouraged to support separation via separate collection and materials are reused. On my 80% level. Eco-design could also more sustainable production is crucially important in obtaining last visit to Exeter Recycling Centre be advanced where non-recyclable and consumption. The target higher recycling rates and high lots of easily recyclable material and materials are designed out of for residual waste is 150kg quality materials.
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