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DOMESTIC BARRIERS TO REGIONAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT IN SMM SOLUTIONSARCAM DIALOGUE ON SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
LIMA, PERUAUGUST 17, 2016
Dr Mervyn JonesSustainable Global Resources
A CIRCULAR APPROACH TO SMM
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Carbon
Recovery
Recycling
Repair
Re-use
Materialextraction
Disposal
Design &Production
Use
Retail &Distribution
Resource Minimisation
WastePrevention
Water Materials
Stability Resilience Competition
IMPROVING RESILIENCE
World Economic Forum (2014) Towards the Circular Economy: Accelerating the scale-up across global supply chains
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DEFINITION OF WASTE
EU Waste Directive Article 3(1)
'waste' means any substance or object which
the holder discards or intends or is required to
discard.”
G1.11 Transposition: Directive 2008/98/EC
When does waste cease to be a waste?
WFD Article 6(1) - specified waste ceases to be waste when it has undergone a recovery operation, including recycling, and complies with EU-wide end-of-waste criteria
Health - have all unwanted substances been removed?
Quality - is it suitable as a replacement for a non-waste material?
Market - is it certain to be used?
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WHAT IS MIXED WASTE MATERIAL?
Waste that:
originates
from households, or
from other sources but is similar to household waste in terms of its nature or composition; and
consists in the largest proportion of two or more of the following kinds of target materials mixed together:
glass;
metal;
paper;
plastic.
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Social
e.g. sustainable lifestyles
Environmental
CO2, water, soil loss
Economic
savings, resilience
IMPACTS
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VALUE CHAIN OPPORTUNITIES
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Collections & sorting
infrastructure
Reprocessing
Businesscase
Specifications & Standards
REGULATIONdefinitions
Informed choice purchase and disposal
Developing markets for materials
Financial risk
Quality
Waste prevention
Procurement
Consumers
SUPPLY DEMAND
INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIREMENTS
Government
Business
Consumers
Collections
• Ensuring supply of quality
material for recycling
Infrastructure
• Establishing the capacity to
sort, recycle & reprocess
• Supporting recycling
enterprises
Markets
• Building demand for &
confidence in recycled
materials
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VALUING WASTEGeneric waste collection systems
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MATERIALS RECYCLING FACILITIES
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PET
HDPE
Food grade rPET pellet to
bottles and washed flake
into sheet.
Food grade rHDPE pellet.
IMPROVING REPROCESSING QUALITY
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DEVELOPING END MARKETS
Need non-food applications too:
Food grade rPET and rHDPE
30-50% rPP can go into food
PP, PET, HDPE and PS
Can go to other packaging and
products
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ORGANICS MARKET DEVELOPMENT
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OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Focusing existing waste policy on value, e.g a circular economy
Connecting knowledge and education to the development of appropriate collections and reprocessing infrastructure
Improving information access
Considering financial and other market incentives
Harmonising and standardising methods and indicators
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TRADE OPPORTUNITIES
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Composting organics
Sorting
RecyclingNIR sorting
Trommel screening
Collection systems
THANK YOU
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Dr Mervyn Jones
Sustainable Global Resources, UK