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Quality Recyclates and Demand for Recovered Raw Materials
Municipal Waste Europe, 26 November 2013
Jori Ringman-Beck
Director Recycling, Product, Environment
Confederation of European Paper Industries
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Paper performs in recycling
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Closing the loop: 100% not yet possible
Non-recyclable and non-collectable: theoretical maximum at 78%
72%
Minus losses in co-mingled collection, incineration,…
CEPI calculation: Recycling rate = material input to reprocessing / total paper consumption
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• Paper recycling mills are modern, large scale industries that need good quality input in 24/7 production process.
• Paper recycling mills face increasing quality and fitness for purpose requirements by end-users.
• (Paper) recycling has intrinsically increasing marginal cost - can be mitigated by improving quality and availability of input.
Aligned with resource efficient recycling society
Other/Final disposal
Non-recoverable
Net trade of paper for recycling
Recycling “made in Europe”
Policychallenge
Technologychallenge
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• Climbing up from “worst” to “best in class”
• Between 1991 – 2001 domestic demand doubled, dependence on imports
– Capacity investments from 2 mt to 5 mt (1991/2011)
• Systematic work with local authorities to increase domestic collection
– Between 1991 – 2001 domestic collection doubled, 1991-2011 tripled from 1.7 mt to 4.5 mt (1991/2011)
• Still import dependent, as exports increase!
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Policy signals for recycling
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• Paper industry supports recent EU move to ‘circular economy’
Circular economy: think globally
• Circular economy should not be just renaming ‘global economy’
• Result would be “exporting pollution” by promoting recycling in regions with lower environmental standards and “importing unemployment” as EU-based producers would suffer in competition.
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• Velocity of the cycle determines resource efficiency– EU state of the art newspapers back in recycling in 7 days,
corrugated boxes cradle to cradle in 14 days
• Supporting local economy
Circular economy: think globally, act locally
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(Pöyry, 2011)
Mandatory use of biomass in European
coal-fired power plants
Waste incineration plant overcapacity
building
Co-mingled waste collection expanding
in Europe
These scenarios are independent and can cumulate.
Three scenarios looked at with conservative assumptions:Paper is not preferred fuel in normal situations. However,...
At risk: 20 5 5(Million tonnes)
Risk of renewable energy policies, co-mingling
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Paper industry is enabling a resource efficient bio-economy – if the EU policy framework is set right!
Creating bio-economy
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Championing recycling
Coming soon at authorities close to you: Best practice in public procurement!- Criteria to consider- Life cycle costing- Benchmarking tool
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