business and environment series: kroening - big picture of downstream waste management
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Environmental Initiative Business and Environment Series
Downstream Waste Manangement – The Big Picture
Paul Kroening
Supervising Environmentalist
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Sustainability
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Triple Bottom Line
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GHG’s by Sector Total U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions by
Economic Sector in 2010
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Waste Contribution to GHG’s
Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Source
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Greenhouse Gases by Systems Systems-Based View of U.S. GHG Emissions
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Materials Management
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Flow of Materials
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Energy Savings from Recycling
* Assumes recycled materials would otherwise have been landfilled. Includes embedded energy.
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Recycling and Jobs
• Recycling creates 5 times more jobs than landfilling - materials sorters, dispatchers, truck drivers, brokers, sales representatives, process engineers, and chemists
• 2011 - 36,981 - total job activity associated with recycling manufacturing including downstream jobs
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Waste Management Goals
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Long Term Goals - 2030
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What’s Left in Waste
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Waste by Category
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Recycling Not Mandatory
• State and Counties recycling by businesses not mandatory
• Some cities business recycling manadatory – MPLS, Bloomington, Brooklyn Park
• Recycling is exempt from State & County SW taxes and fees – 31.5% in Hennepin, almost 50% in Ramsey
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PET Recycling Industry Data
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Paper Recycling
• Amercian Forest and Paper Association set target of 70% recovery of paper for recycling by 2020
• Estimated recovery in 2011- 66.8% • Regional paper mills - St. Paul, Becker,
Duluth, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ontario
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Evaluate Opportunities
• Review recycling guidelines in your communities
• Audit your waste • Review waste disposal and recycling
contracts – communicate with vendors, suppliers
• Communicate clear guidelines to employees
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Product Design
• Recyclable in current collection programs?
• Extended Producer Responsibility • Collection system must make sense –
convenient, easy
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Recycling Expensive?
• Collection costs of reycling and waste similar
• Garbage tipping fees $45-50/ton plus taxes and fees
• Recycling has value – currently around $100-115/ton – processing cost $50-60/ton
• Organics and recycling tax exempt
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Pricing for Waste Services
• Basis for cost of waste, recycling, and organics frequency of collection
• Charged per pickup – to minimize cost reduce collection frequency
• Maximize volume of containers – adjust collection as needed
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Assistance Available
• Business recycling directory – RethinkRecycling.com
• County and City SW staff • MN WasteWise • MN Technical Assistance Program
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Contact Info
Paul Kroening Supervising Environmentalist Hennepin County Department of Environmental Services Email: [email protected] Ph. 612-348-6358 Website: www.hennepin.us/environment