driving the circular economy
TRANSCRIPT
-
8/11/2019 Driving the Circular Economy
1/12
Driving the
Circular EconomyA FEAD Strategy for 2014-2020
-
8/11/2019 Driving the Circular Economy
2/12
2
Europes private waste and resource industry drives the circular economy
Foreword
The challenge facing Europes industries today is howto achieve sustainable growth in a resource-ecientand environmentally sound way.
The key to doing this is to make the European economymore circular, so that waste is reduced and madesafe, and what remains is re-used or recycled intonew products, or used to generate energy.
The waste and resources industry plays a key rolein the circular economy by providing secondary rawmaterials for Europes industries, and energy forits homes, transport and businesses, so improvingresource security.
This booklet sets out FEADs vision of the policiesneeded to allow the industry to play its full partin achieving a more sustainable and prosperousEuropean economy.
David Palmer-Jones,FEAD President
-
8/11/2019 Driving the Circular Economy
3/12
FEADs Strategy for 2014-2020
Strengthen recyclability in product design and
manufacture
Eighty percent of the environmental impact of productsis determined at their design stage, providing anexcellent opportunity for Europe to take the lead insmart eco-design.
FEAD members will intensify their cooperaon
with designers and manufacturers to ensure that
products are designed to prevent waste and to be
easily reused, dismantled and recycled.FEAD calls on the EC to speedily adopt eco-design
measuresfor material resource eciency, including
seng recyclability requirements for selected
products such as electronics.
3
-
8/11/2019 Driving the Circular Economy
4/12
4
Stimulate the market for recovered materials
Clear market signals would enable the European wasteand resources industry to provide more secondary raw
materials for European manufacturing and improveresource security.
FEAD calls for stronger rules on Green Public
Procurement at European level to promote the use
of products with recycled content and which are
recyclable. Public procurement should be by open
compeon and should not necessarily be awarded
to the lowest tender but to the oer which delivers
the most sustainable outcome.
FEAD recommends that Extended Producer
Responsibility (EPR) schemes should operate in a
transparent way, to encourage manufacturers to
use recycled materials and to ensure fair and equal
access to materials and resources.
FEAD recommends that the EC explores the
possibility of applying a lower rate of VAT to secondhand goods and green products, to promote waste
prevenon and re-use.
FEAD calls on the EC to adopt eco-labelling rules
which enable consumers to choose recycled products.
-
8/11/2019 Driving the Circular Economy
5/12
Ensure fair compeon in waste markets
Fair compeon would allow the private sector wasteand resource management industry to deliver high qualityservices to commercial and public sector customers,signicantly reducing their costs and environmentalimpact.
FEAD calls for fair compeon between the private
and public sector providers of waste and recycling
services, to allow the private sector to invest in the
circular economy.Safeguards must be put in place so
that municipalies which have exclusive rights over
household waste do not use their posion to cross-subsidise their operaons in respect of commercial
waste, as this unfair compeon undermines private
sector service providers.
FEAD calls for the opening up of household waste
management markets to compeon from private
enes. Many member states grant exclusive rights
to municipalies or public waste management
enes, based on past concerns about hygiene,
health and protecon of the environment. However,
these concerns have been addressed and public
monopolies for the management of household waste
for recovery are no longer jused.
5
-
8/11/2019 Driving the Circular Economy
6/12
6
Smulate private sector investment in resource
management infrastructure
Most Member States rely on the private sector to
provide the annual capital investment of 42.9 billionneeded from now unl 2020 to properly implementthe waste acquis 1, so moving towards a more circulareconomy.
FEAD calls for full implementaon and proper
enforcementof exisng EU legislaon on waste and
resource management, which would generate
400,000 jobs while protecng the environment and
human health and improving resource security.
FEAD asks the EC to ensure that any EU funds which
are provided to Member States for investments in
waste management infrastructure for recyclable or
residual waste respect the waste hierarchy.
FEAD asks the EC to accelerate programmes
designed to strengthen regulatory enforcement
in those Member States which are having most
diculty in reaching EU recycling and landll
diversion targets.
FEAD will play its part, supporng naonal
and European regulators by disseminang
environmentally responsible management pracces
across the sector.
1 BioIS.Implemenng EU Waste Legislaon for Green Growth (November 2011).
Source: ESA
-
8/11/2019 Driving the Circular Economy
7/12
Create a strong reprocessing sector within a
global market
Europes re-industrialisaon strategies could do more
to help develop a strong European reprocessing andmanufacturing sector, while recognising the validity ofthe global market in clean secondary raw materials forrecycling.
FEAD supports an EU industrial policy which would
increase demand for the use of secondary resources
within Europe.
FEADs members operate in a world market forrecycling, so it is right that secondary raw materials
which currently cannot be reprocessed within the
EU are exported for recovery, consistent with the
global circular economy, provided this is done in an
environmentally sound manner.
FEAD supports strong acon against illegal
shipments of waste, notably WEEE and ELVs,
including implementaon of the revised WasteShipment Regulaon to improve inspecon regimes.
This is a beer soluon than trying to impose a
mandatory EU cercaon scheme on recycling
facilies worldwide.
7
-
8/11/2019 Driving the Circular Economy
8/12
8
Ensure beer informaon to support policy
making
Eecve EU policy-making is hampered by poor data on
raw and secondary material ows, partly due to uncleardenions that allow for dierent interpretaons.
A key FEAD priority is for the EC to improve
stascs on raw material and waste ows, which
implies ghtening and harmonisaon of denions
and calculaon methodologies so as to limit
inconsistencies in waste stascs.
FEAD recommends that the EC develops a singleset of EU models for the evaluaon of the
environmental burdens associated with primary
resource extracon, procurement and conversion
to allow for fair compeon between primary and
secondary raw materials.
-
8/11/2019 Driving the Circular Economy
9/12
FEAD supports connued eorts by the EC to clarify
when waste ceases to be waste, to promote legal
certainty, a level playing eld across the EU, a
strengthening of the internal market, and recovery
of secondary raw materials.
FEAD supports eorts to clarify and harmonise
denions across the Member States, and to
improve the reporng of waste stascs and data,
as well as measures to improve the operaon of
extended producer responsibility schemes, all of
which should aim to ensure transparency and fair
compeon in the markets for waste and resources.
Create a policy framework for a circular economy
FEAD welcomes the European Commissions July 2014proposals to revise EU waste legislaon and targets,which set out an ambious long-term vision for Europesresources policy beyond 2020. Turning this vision intoreality will be challenging and will require considerableinvestment, mostly from the private sector, therebycreang new business and job opportunies.
FEAD supports further increases in recycling as part
of the move towards a more circular and resource
ecient economy, and looks forward to working with
the EU instuons on the praccal steps that willneed to be taken to turn the Commissions ambious
vision into reality.
FEAD supports further progressive reducons in
landll, while recognizing that it will not be possible
to eliminate it totally for all types of wastes.
FEAD supports a future role for waste-to-energy,
mainly limited to dealing with non-recyclable/noncompostable waste.
9
-
8/11/2019 Driving the Circular Economy
10/12
10
FEAD and its members
Europes private sector resource managementindustry guarantees safe and environmentallysound treatment of all types of waste, includingmunicipal and commercial waste as well ashazardous waste and soil remediaon. FEAD andits members are strongly commied to connuousimprovement and investment in health andsafety, going beyond legal requirements.
Improving resource management is one of the
best ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissionsto meet future climate targets. The Europeanwaste and resource management industry playsa major role in climate change migaon byreducing the use of virgin raw materials. Ourindustry has also reduced its own emissions byover 65% since 1990.
-
8/11/2019 Driving the Circular Economy
11/12
APOHSlovakia
HRABRI ISTASerbia
EWMAEstonia
PIGOPoland
BDEGermany
NORSK INDUSTRINorway
FLEALuxembourg
VEBAustria
ARSRomania
IWWAIreland
FEBEM - FEGEBelguim
SRISweden
ESAUnited Kingdom
PASEPPEGreece
FNADEFrance
YTPFinland
ASEGRESpain
LASUALatvia
FISEItaly
VANetherlands
11
FEAD Members
-
8/11/2019 Driving the Circular Economy
12/12
September 2014
Responsible Editor: Nadine De GreefFEAD aisbl - 15, rue Philippe le Bon B-1000 Brussels
Tel.: +32 2 732 32 13 Fax: +32 2 734 95 [email protected] www.fead.be