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School of Civil EngineeringPATHOGEN CONTROL ENGINEERING INSTITUTE
INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE
Recycling and resource recovery systems:measuring value in an increasingly globalised world
Dr Costas Velis
ISWA Resource
Management Task Force
ISWA Resource
Management Task Force
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Waste hierarchy according to revised WFD:
2008/98/EC Directive (Art. 4)
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New European resource
management vision
‘Towards a circular economy:
A zero waste programme for Europe’
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Material flows
in anthropo- or techno-sphere (cities)
Graph source: TU Vienna
Prof Paul Bruner
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Resource management – which vision?
Resource efficiency +
effectivenessZero waste
Cradle to cradle
Sustainable consumption
and production
Final storage quality landfill
Circular economy
Low carbon footprint
Resilient and adaptable
infrastructure
Materials criticality
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East London Waste Authority: 2 x 180 ktpa
biodrying – SRF production MBT plants
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Systematic sorting of wastes
200 years ago in London!
Sifting – manual separation
by women in dust-yards 1900
(Mayhew, 1862)
VELIS, C. A., WILSON, D. C. & CHEESEMAN, C. R.
(2009) 19th century London dust-yards: A case study in
closed-loop resource efficiency. Waste Management,
29, 1282-1290.
Introduction of mechanical
processing for MSW:
ca 1870?
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Drivers for waste management
1020 1850 1970 1990 2000
Resource
value
Public Health
- collection
Climate change
Environment
- disposal
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Resource
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Policy
Fiscal measures
Regulation
Legislation
Law enforcement
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San Francisco,USTompkins County, US
Managua, NC
Rotterdam, NL
Canete, PR
Belo Horizonte, BRCurepipe, MULusaka, ZM
Moshi,TZ
Nairobi, KE
Bamako, ML
Sousse, TU
Varna, BG
Delhi, IN
Ghorahi, NP
Bengaluru, IN
Dhaka, BN
Kunming, CH
Quezon City, PH
Adelaide, AU
Global waste and resources management
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Organics in MSW across 20
reference cities around the world
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Waste everywhere...
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Web source: http://www.veoliaenvironmentalservices.co.uk/hampshire/pages/er_marchwood.asp
Slide source: Chris Cheeseman, ICL
Today’s EfW plants: e.g. Veolia in Southampton
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New European resource
management vision
‘Towards a circular economy:
A zero waste programme for Europe’
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Waste plastics flows in the UK and... beyond
Reprocessed for export?
Around 70% wt. of “recycled” UK plastics are exported
Source: Zhou, 2012
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Waste hierarchy according to revised WFD:
2008/98/EC Directive (Art. 4)
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European waste plastics
‘value recovery’
Adopted from: Consultic,
as cited by
PlasticsEurope, 2013
EU-27 exports
46% wt.
of the post-
consumer
plastics that
collects for
recycling
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Waste plastic exports transactions:
is your sustainability global?
Code 3915:
“waste, pairings
and scraps of
plastics”
Data source:
UN Comtrade - 2011
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Waste plastics import transactions
China rules!
Code 3915:
“waste, pairings
and scraps of
plastics”
Data source:
UN Comtrade - 2011
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China dominates global waste plastic imports
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EU-27 depends on China and HK SAR to
absorb its exported waste plastics
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3 possible destinations within China
“3-non enterprises”: no rules for operation – no quality standards – no inspection
Big centralised reprocessing facilities
Incineration / energy from waste
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Documentary on reprocessing plastic
scrap imports “Deadly waste in China”
See at 2DF:http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek#/beitrag/video/1993090/Die-
Doku:-Tödlicher-Müll-in-China
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A complex and potentially vulnerable market
China oligospony – huge EU dependence if recycling targets are to be met
Poor environmental control and H&S, and sub-optimal manufacturing practices in China
General pathway of least environmental performance – risk transfer
Dispersion of PoPs vs. destruction in EfW?
Do environmental / health recycling aspired benefits materialise?
Opportunities for high value closed-loop recycling value recovery and local green growth and energy generation under optimal conditions
Issues with plastics recycling via exports
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Africa – EU research collaboration
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Labour intensive resource recovery?
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SRF real time QM – biogenic
energy content
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International co-operation for
resource recovery?
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UK RDF / SRF exports
Over 0.5 Mt in 2011
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Global scale realities:
E-waste distribution
Source: International electronics recovery coalition, available at http://www.ierc.info/e-waste-dumping-an-interactive-map/
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Code Hazardous properties
H1 Explosive (E)
H2 Oxidising (O)
H3-A Flammable (F)
H3-B Highly flammable (F+)
H4 Irritant (Xi)
H5 Harmful (Xn)
H6 Toxic (T) / Highly toxic (T+)
H7 Carcinogenic
H2
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H3-B
H3-A
Hazardous properties
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Waste categories: place of arising + physical
macro features vs. chemical composition
Similar
woodchemical
composition
Processed wood in furniture
(bulky waste)
Wood from gardens /
public green
(green waste)
Solid biomass grown for biofules
(fuel) Chemically treated wood in buildings
(C&D waste)
Mixed wood (residual
household waste)
Source Wiki – created by: Smokefoot
Cellulose
Hemicellulose
Lignin
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Source: http://www.environment-
agency.gov.uk/aboutus/wfo/134219.aspx
End of Waste – UK implementation
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London Mayors’ vision: Waste-to-Energy
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Examples of solid recovered fuel types
SRF as used in a UK cement
UK industrySource: letsrecycle.com http://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-news/waste-
management/shanks-in-second-castle-cement-fuel-
deal
A finely shredded fluffy SRF, in
storage production pitSource: Nottinghamshire Recycling Ltd.
http://www.nottsrecycling.co.uk/information/11/
solid+recovered+fuel+(srf)/
Stabilat® SRF: production from
different inputs to different 3D
and type specsSource: Herhof GmbH
http://www.herhof.com/en/business-
divisions/stabilat/rdf-production-with-stabilat.html
Example of plastic film fluff-
type SRFSource: MID UK Recycling Ltd.
http://www.midukrecycling.co.uk/energy-from-
waste/rdf-srf.aspx
Example of fluff-type SRFSource: ERFO
http://www.erfo.info/
MBT-derived (bio-drying) SRF in
the UK, mainly for cement kilnsSource: Shanks
http://www.shanks.co.uk/corporate-services/local-
authority/srf-and-fuels
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Quality management
SRF according to CEN TC/343
“solid fuel prepared from non-hazardous waste to be
utilised for energy recovery in incineration and co-
incineration plants and meeting the classification and
specification requirements laid down in CEN/TS 13359”
ERFO: “prepared” means:
processed, homogenised and up-
graded to a quality that can be
traded amongst producers and
users
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CEN TC/343 SRF standards
End of Waste?
STANDARD REFERENCE TITLE
CEN/TR 14980:2004 Solid recovered fuels - Report on relative difference between biodegradable and biogenic fractions of SRF
CEN/TR 15404:2010 Solid recovered fuels - Methods for the determination of ash melting behaviour by using characteristic temperatures
CEN/TR 15441:2006 Solid recovered fuels - Guidelines on occupational health aspects
CEN/TR 15508:2006 Key properties on solid recovered fuels to be used for establishing a classification system
CEN/TR 15591:2007 Solid recovered fuels - Determination of the biomass content based on the 14C method
CEN/TR 15716:2008 Solid recovered fuels - Determination of combustion behaviour
CEN/TS 15401:2010 Solid recovered fuels - Determination of bulk density
CEN/TS 15405:2010 Solid recovered fuels - Determination of density of pellets and briquettes
CEN/TS 15406:2010 Solid recovered fuels - Determination of bridging properties of bulk material
CEN/TS 15412:2010 Solid recovered fuels - Methods for the determination of metallic aluminium
CEN/TS 15414-1:2010 Solid recovered fuels - Determination of moisture content using the oven dry method - Part 1: Determination of total moisture by a reference method
CEN/TS 15414-2:2010 Solid recovered fuels - Determination of moisture content using the oven dry method - Part 2: Determination of total moisture content by a simplified method
CEN/TS 15639:2010 Solid recovered fuels - Determination of mechanical durability of pellets
EN 15357:2011 Solid recovered fuels - Terminology, definitions and descriptions
EN 15358:2011 Solid recovered fuels - Quality management systems - Particular requirements for their application to the production of solid recovered fuels
EN 15359:2011 Solid recovered fuels - Specifications and classes
EN 15400:2011 Solid recovered fuels - Determination of calorific value
EN 15402:2011 Solid recovered fuels - Determination of the content of volatile matter
EN 15403:2011 Solid recovered fuels - Determination of ash content
EN 15407:2011 Solid recovered fuels - Methods for the determination of carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and nitrogen (N) content
EN 15408:2011 Solid recovered fuels - Methods for the determination of sulphur (S), chlorine (Cl), fluorine (F) and bromine (Br) content
EN 15410:2011 Solid recovered fuels - Methods for the determination of the content of major elements (Al, Ca, Fe, K, Mg, Na, P, Si, Ti)
EN 15411:2011 Solid recovered fuels - Methods for the determination of the content of trace elements (As, Ba, Be, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Hg, Mo, Mn, Ni, Pb, Sb, Se, Tl, V and Zn)
EN 15413:2011 Solid recovered fuels - Methods for the preparation of the test sample from the laboratory sample
EN 15414-3:2011 Solid recovered fuels - Determination of moisture content using the oven dry method - Part 3: Moisture in general analysis sample
EN 15415-1:2011 Solid recovered fuels - Determination of particle size distribution - Part 1: Screen method for small dimension particles
EN 15415-2:2012 Solid recovered fuels - Determination of particle size distribution -
Part 2: Maximum projected length method (manual) for large dimension particles
EN 15415-3:2012 Solid recovered fuels - Determination of particle size distribution -Part 3: Method by image analysis for large dimension
particles
EN 15440:2011 Solid recovered fuels - Methods for the determination of biomass content
EN 15440:2011/AC:2011 Solid recovered fuels - Methods for the determination of biomass content
EN 15442:2011 Solid recovered fuels - Methods for sampling
EN 15443:2011 Solid recovered fuels - Methods for the preparation of the laboratory sample
EN 15590:2011 Solid recovered fuels - Determination of the current rate of aerobic microbial activity using the real dynamic respiration index
http://www.cen.eu/CEN/S
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REACH after EoW???
If End of Waste status is achieved:
the product (possibly) becomes subject to the REACH regulation
(Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals)
http://www.hse.gov.uk/reach/
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Life cycle assessment:
some challenging outcomes
LCA evidence that plastics recycling over performing EfW
only if virgin polymer is replacedabove 70-80%
(Rajendran, Hodzic et al., 2013)
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Extracting value from waste plastics
►No evaluation at all: E.g. as the EfW is leading the way to quantifying
efficiency and quality via R1 and biogenic content measurement
►No quality, no material criticality, no systems / overall resource efficiency
considerations for recycling
►System boundaries? MRF input vs. virgin material substitution?
►Closed loop and down-cycling count the same
►Overestimation by considering rejects as “recycled”
►No traceability – transparency
►Export often for down-cycling? – human health and environmental risks?
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Quality of recycling:
real sustainability benefits
• Need to ask the right questions to inform the way forward
• Focus on truly sustainable and high value (e.g. PET close loop)
• Transparency – traceability – quality controls before exports
• Establish a maximum acceptable environmental cost for recycling
• Focus on clean material cycles and prevention of pollution
dispersion
• Higher ambitious intangible generic recycling targets will increase
the materials collected: are we creating a hot potato and for whom?
• Should we move out of inertia and use “priming” in this debate?
• Why not use targets / measure much more downstream?
• Quality quality quality?
• Quantify quantify quantify
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Waste hierarchy according to revised WFD:
2008/98/EC Directive (Art. 4)
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At best: just a static “environmental” hierarchy of
waste processing options: simplistic >> simple?
Third sector – largely ignored
Not much yet – focus onwards
Main beneficiary: collection for
recycling
Recovery – where is the limit?
Disposal: move away – BUT
safe final sinks + dev.
Countries?
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Is waste hierarchy outdated in a
globalised recycling system?
No systems - boundaries
No multiple aspects of value
No trade-offs
No optimisation
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Recycling
business as usual
High unverifiable
numbers
Recycling for resource recovery
Quality and impact
orientated
Systems optimisation
Lower recycling numbers – more tangible benefits
Meaningful waste hierarchy level
distinctions
Clear quantification of contribution to resource
recovery
Systems holistic approach – scientific + policy metrics as R1
EfW
Multiple closed loop and down-cycling equal
No End of Waste –quality management
No metrics – poor data –low confidence
Collected for recycling-exported for???
Recycling operation modes: focusing on actual
resource efficiency quality outcomes?
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R1 EfW formula: defining the line between
recovery vs. disposal
• WFD 2008/98/EC: allows
efficient EfW facilities to be
classified as ‘energy
recovery’ operations
• Single most important
development
• Systems and measurable
outcome focused approach
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System A
Environment Economics
Social
System B
System C
Optimal value
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“If you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it”
C-VORR at University of Leeds:
novel framework and tool
for optimizing resource efficiency beyond just
solid waste management
Make trade offs explicit – eliminate partial accounting
Extend to comprehensive environmental and social valuation
Do not lose transparency by unnecessary aggregation
Separate objective measurement from value judgment
Explicitly design your system boundaries
Include all ‘values’ that could be of relevance
Sophisticated multi-objective optimisation
Inform the urge to circular and green economy with real
comprehensive evidence
Complex Value Optimisation
of Resource Recovery
Please join our efforts
for an evidence-based
circular and green economy