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The Circular Economy
as a way of living
Smart City Event
3rd June 2015
Amsterdam
Thierry Clement, Veolia Senior Vice President Business Development Cities
250 years ago,
“Circular Economy” was the exclusive way of living
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XVIII century: Production system based on agriculture Low transformation of natural resources Almost 100% of products recovered Tough living conditions
The first economy was Circular
Natural resources
Production
Consumption
Waste return to
earth
Limited waste
disposal
1750 Life Expectancy
25 – 30 years
Transition towards massive
consumption of natural resources
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Industrial Revolutions:
Modernization Research & Development Healthcare improvements Planet damages and human activities impacts not anticipated
Natural resources
Extraction, Production
Consumption (products)
Waste
Start of the Linear Economy
Globalization, Urbanization and Rural exodus…
How will we keep our planet alive?
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Worldwide urbanpopulationgrowth (in Bn)
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
1750 1900 Today 2050
Urban Population
Rural Population
Worldwide urban population growth
Sources: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/population/world-urbanization-prospects-2014.html http://fr.slideshare.net/maggiesalgado/changes-in-britain-1750-1900
How can we move to a new Circular Economy?
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Natural resources
Extraction, Production
Consumption (products)
Waste
Distribution in short
loops
Production
Consumption (services)
Collection & separation
of waste
Re-use, recycling,
transformation
The first economy was Circular
Natural resources
Production
Consumption
Waste return to
earth
Limited waste
disposal
The industrial revolution Linear economy
Moving toward a SMART way of living and sustainable
Through Circular Economy
Today (in EU) Life Expectancy
70 - 80 years
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What are the drivers driving the need for a
Sustainable Circular Economy?
Cost & Volatility
o Scarcity and increasing difficulty to extract natural resources
o The price of raw materials was halved between 1900 and 2000 and
increased by more than half between 2000 and 2010.
Dependence & Uncertain
supply
o Most of the resources used are non-renewable (68% in France)
o Most of the resources used in OECD countries are imported
o Strongly increasing world population that becomes wealthier (consumes more resources)
o Increase in raw materials consumption (+10% in water since 2000)
Boom in the demand
Recycling potential
underutilized
o No recovery of 80% of the volume of consumer goods consumed.
o Only 2% of treated wastewater is recycled in the world (UN-Water)
o 1.3 billion tonnes of municipal waste produced each year worldwide (World Bank)
2. Preserving resources o Reduction in
consumption o Audits & diagnoses of
environmental footprints
1. Improving access to resources o Durability of production chains o Regional ecology through the introduction of local
loops of resources and of integrated offerings o Functional economy o Eco-design
3. Renewing resources o Renewed secondary
raw materials o Extended life cycle of
products
Traditional Linear Economy
Circular Economy
What Veolia is doing
A circular economy for “Resourcing the world”
Veolia is involved in Circular Economy solutions & technologies (video link)
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Increase in material complexity due to: built-in functionality and material-based differentiation
increasing difficulty to identify and separate materials
Misalignment of incentives Lack of markets at scale Lack of reverse capabilities and
infrastructure Missing enablers in the transition
Today’s products have global footprints
Most of the time, materials don’t find their way back to the value chains
SOURCE: World Economic Forum and Ellen MacArthur Foundation circular economy team
What are the challenges to accelerate the transition towards the circular economy across global supply chains?
Linear
Lock-ins
Geographical
Dispersion
Material Complexity
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Circular economy gets real in your daily life !
Working alongside Procter & Gamble we have repackaged waste detergent into a new, high performance auto wash. At our Tinsley site, we have been trialling a new auto wash on our own vehicles
Working with Diageo’s Cameronbridge Distillery, we have developed new technology to recover energy from the by-products of whisky production.
Working alongside local authorities, we offer a closed-loop environmental solution by recycling used plastic bags into refuse sacks.
Working with a national food producer, we have created a landmark solution that has enabled recycled water to be used in food production. To achieve this, we created a water recycling facility that took the wastewater from the factory and recycled 72% of it back into the food production process.
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Circular economy gets real in your daily life !
Working alongside a leading healthcare company, we have recovered high quality platinum from obsolete pharmaceutical drugs.
The Dairy Crest biomass energy plant is one of the largest wood pellet burning installations in its industry sector, using sustainably sourced pellets made from used or life-expired wood.
Working across UK, Europe and the United States, Veolia is developing innovative technology to recover valuable metals from disused industrial catalysts for clients in the Oil & Gas, Chemical and Petrochemical sectors. Trials of this technology are underway. We are working closely with our technology partners to maximize the amount of valuable metal we reclaim.
Veolia is taking mixed rigid plastic items and wheelie bins collected from household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs), commercial and industrial customers and turning them into brand new wheelie bins. There are a lot of rigid plastic household items that are sent to our HWRCs such as garden furniture, toys and dustbins.
Challenges o Transform wastewater and waste from a source of pollution
into an opportunity for sustainable development o Make the Billund Biorefinery (Denmark) a real laboratory
for large-scale technical innovation to open the door to a new way of treating wastewater and biowaste
Veolia's solutions o A facility equipped with Veolia’s proprietary thermal
hydrolysis and anaerobic digestion technology, EXELYS™, that simultaneously treats the wastewater from the city’s 70,000 residents and the 4,200 metric tons of organic waste from agriculture, industry and local households
Customer benefits o Production of biogas from the biowaste and treatment
sludge to provide heat and electricity to the site o Production of organic fertilizer for agriculture and
bioplastics for industry o The treated water will be discharged back into the
neighboring stream o City-country-industry loop o Reduced environmental footprint o Protection of the local biodiversity
Producing biogas to supply heat and electricity Billund Biorefinery
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Challenges o Castorama, a leader in home furnishings has
committed to being “Net Positive”, by going one step
further of environmental protection and seeking to
have a positive impact on the planet’s future
Veolia's solutions o Research and development in cooperation with the
Castorama teams
o Creation of an ad hoc logistics unit to collect the timber
waste from Castorama’s stores in France
o Design of a wood flour with 35% wood and 65%
plastics that can be recycled industrially
Customer benefits o Commitment to supply 1,000 metric tons a year for five
years
o Improved water-resistant and 40% lighter weight
product
o A first in France for a 100% recycled composite timber
used to manufacture a laminated kitchen countertop, a
pure circular-economy product
Creating a recyclable kitchen countertop Castorama
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Key financials o Annual revenues: 950 k€
o Contract duration: 4 years
Market driver o Development of en extended producer
responsibility on furnitures with ambitious
objectives on recycling and valorization rates
Client challenge o Encourage the development of new plants to
dismantle matress in order to achieve its recycling
rate
Veolia business model o Plant co-financed with social economy partner
o Minimum tonnage guaranteed by EcoMobilier
Veolia Solution o Set up of an industrial process to dismantle
matress starting with a desinfection module
o Recovery of secondary raw materials: foam, latex,
textile, iron
Client benefits o Recycling rate of matress > 90 %
Dismantling of matress for a second life Eco-Mobilier
Energido: Converting wastewater into energy
Challenges The energy sector is within local authorities the largest
greenhouse gas issuer and often the leading operating
expenditure item. Local authorities are implementing strategies
aimed at lowering their energy consumption and developing
local and renewable energies. Large cities, in particular, have to
face a major challenge: combining unprecedented urban
development while minimizing their impact on the environment.
Veolia's solution
A process patented by Veolia, ENERGIDO recovers heat from
wastewater.
Wastewater, put in contact with a heat exchanger located
outside the sewer system, conveys its energy to a fluid feeding
the heat pump located within the facility. The latter returns the
energy by producing water at the desired temperature (40° to
60° Celsius) that feeds the heating network.
Customer benefits o France's first eco-friendly district is 100% heated thanks to
energy recovered from wastewater (Cap d’Azur eco-district
in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin): with residents’ invoices cut by
around 15%,
o Decrease in CO2 emissions:
o 84 tons saved in the Cap d’Azur eco-friendly district,
o 280 tons of CO2 saved for the Aquarena aquatic center in
Arras,
o 230 tons of CO2 saved for the Cercle des nageurs
swimming pool in Marseille
o Smart Water Box
Urban Digital Services Offering: Veolia services with IBM inside
• Integrated and real time insight on infrastructure, assets and
operations for water, by integrating heterogeneous sources of
data and leveraging wireless sensors (networks, assets,..) to
provide analytics, optimization and forecasts.
• Combining data management and analytics leads to smarter
decisions
o Smart Wastewater Plant
• CISPEO is the first range of solutions developed and patented by
Veolia, which uses and transposes artificial intelligence
processes to water treatment and related activities to monitor,
diagnose or control the operation of treatments units in a
wastewater treatment plant.
• When you choose a CISPEO solution, you benefit from
Veolia’s skills in terms of preliminary assessment of the
facilities, configuration and implementation of the solution,
operational technical assistance…
• CISPEO acts on 3 levels
• Energy consumption
• Use of chemicals
• Human resources and work organization
Smart-metering
CHALLENGES OUR SOLUTION
CASE STUDIES:
France: Lyon – Smart Water Box
CUSTOMER BENEFITS
o Accelerated Urbanization is a major challenge.
o Cities objectives: efficiency, attractiveness,
transparency
o Citizens’ expectations: quality of services, new types
of consumption, quality of life
o Private sector objectives: accessibility, cost efficiency,
quality of human resources
o Reducing operating costs while guaranteeing the
facilities treatment efficiency.
o Optimizing maintenance workforce
o Operational performance
o Water losses reduction
o Developing responsible management methods to
improve the quality of life in the workplace and
reduce the environmental impact of the activity (
chemical impact, GHG emissions)