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City strategies and managing waste effectively in transition economies

Webinar20th September 2017

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City strategies and managing waste effectively in transition economies

20th June 2017, 11:00 – 12:00

PresenterHost

Sarahjane Widdowson

Business Area Manager

Waste Operations

Ricardo Energy & Environment

Darren Perrin

Associate Director

International Development


Presenter

Mike Webster

Chief Executive

WasteAid UK


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Audience questions

What role should technology play when

planning a waste strategy?

How do you incorporate the

informal sector?

How important is the alignment

between City, Regional and Local

when developing a strategy?

How much engagement with the

public should there be during

strategy development?

Why do countries need a

waste strategy if the informal

sector is achieving high levels

of recycling?

Should you have a stand alone waste strategy or should it be part of a wider environmental strategy?

How frequently should you review a

strategy given changes to practice

and technology?

How do you balance ambition and

reality?

What role should the private sector play?

Is the monetisation of waste

management services a no-go in

transition economies, i.e. can consumers

be asked to pay for waste?

How do you decide on technology?

What’s fit for purpose?

Which waste materials should a strategy

include? What about hazardous waste?

What data do you need to inform a

strategy?


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including biofuels &

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and social impact

assessment

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agriculture

Air & Environmental Quality

• Resource risks

• Product policy

• Waste and resources

regulation support

• Waste services design

• Procurement support to

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• Waste technologies

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Strategy development

Darren Perrin

International Development Manager

20th September 2017


Transition of Waste Management

Developing Developed

Uncontrolled burning

and dumping

Adoption of a

Circular EconomySanitary landfillWaste disposal

technology

Integrated systems of

recycling,

reuse

and recovery

Sweden

Wales

EnglandScotland

USAGhana China


Vision: What/where do we want to be?

Strategy: What is the plan to get there?

Tactics: What are the specific actions we will take?

Strategic Planning

“A process of defining a strategy, or direction,

and making decisions on allocating resources to pursue this strategy,

including capital and people”.


Asking the key questions

Where are we?

Where do we want to be?

How do we get there?

Draft Strategy

Final Strategy and Action Plan

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Define Vision Statement

Identify key goals that will measure if this “Vision” is being achieved

Identify themes which reflect the strategic purpose and direction

Set objectives under each “theme”; the actions required to achieve the

objective and KPIs / targets that measure if the actions/objectives

have been achieved

How does it fit together?


• Data underpins decision making

– Need to understand data quality and potential gaps

– Can you make informed decisions?

• Types of data

– Waste generation and material flows

– Waste composition

– Financial

– Sociodemographic

• Stakeholder mapping

– Capacity and infrastructure

– End markets

– Performance

– Number of people involved in waste operations

• Formal and informal sector

The role of data


• Aguaseo plan to develop a Materials Recovery Facility in Colon City to segregate materials for recycling and reduce the quantity of waste sent to landfill.

• Our support was split into two phases:

– Phase 1: Waste characterisation study to assess the quantity and quality of waste produced in Colon to assess its suitability for recycling

– Phase 2: Using the waste characterisation for Colon, review options for Material Recovery Facility design, and develop a high level business case and roadmap to facility development.

• Results will be used to inform waste collection service review, development of educational programmes and overall waste management strategy development.

Waste Composition Analysis in Panama


Training and Sorting


Key points to consider

• Data

• Clear “Vision”

• Resources

• Political Support

• Partnerships and Networks

• Identification of Stakeholders & Consultation

• Risk assessments

• Drivers (cost, social, environmental, compliance)

• Timing

• Fit for purpose solutions

• Links to other plans

Affordability?

Priorities?


Part A - Strategy

Other Technical Documents such as

Waste Assessment

Waste Audit Report

Environmental Impact Assessment

Options Appraisal Report

Stakeholder Engagement Report

Financial Assessment

Strategic Framework

Part B - Action

Plan

Waste Assessment Summary

Baseline & Forecast Waste

Generation and Composition

Statement on Drivers, Vison, Goals

Actions

Accountability

Success Measures

Other Supporting Reference Documents

to support strategy such as:

Governance Report

Policy and Legislation

Existing Environmental Policies

Other Related Strategies

Adopted from NSW EPA Regional Strategy Guidance Document

Headline Strategy

+

Example Waste Strategy Structure


Zero Waste South Australia

• Energy from Waste Policy Paper

• Assess state of waste to energy technologies and suitability

• Developed a high level W2E strategy which included a matrix of technologies, policies and mechanisms, supported by strategy recommendations

City of Johannesburg

• Technology Feasibility Study

• City urgently needs to find an alternative to their limited landfill capacity. Ricardo was part of the City’s transaction team responsible for assessing the feasibility of a 500,000 tpa waste treatment and disposal contract

• Detailed appraisal of all residual waste treatment technologies, modelling and procurement

Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC)

• Waste Strategy Development & Infrastructure Advice

• Population of 5M, supplemented with an additional floating population of 3M people / day

• Compilation of revised Waste Strategy and review of selection of technical reports associated with planned changes to the current systems & new waste infrastructure

ArRiyadh Development Authority

• Waste Strategy Development – integrated approach to waste management and city planning

• Population 5.3M in 2012 - +60% by 2030

• 18 month programme (£800,000) from waste composition and stakeholder engagement through to capacity building and implementation planning

• All waste streams, including hazardous

Case study examples


What does the future look like?

Now Future


• Collection and Use of Data

– Real time reporting

• IoT and AI

– App technology

– Drone and camera technology

• Engagement With Stakeholders

– Social Media

– Illustration and communication of strategy in cloud solutions

• Service Delivery

– Driverless vehicles

– Customer pick up on demand services

• Management and Treatment of Waste

– Role of automation and robotics in waste sorting

– New technology solutions to process and treat waste to extract maximum value

Technology Influences


• Waste strategy – end of pipe

– Take, make, dispose

• Move to a Circular strategy

– maximise value and keep materials in the loop for longer

• How do we achieve this?

– Inclusion / engagement of business rather than environment sector

– Role of residual waste tax noting residual waste point of failure

– New technologies

– Consideration of the wider environment

– Could the developing world and transition economies make this change faster?

Transition of Linear to Circular Economy

Engaging communities around waste in low income countries

Mike Webster

WasteAid UK is a waste management charity

working to make an impact on the global waste

emergency by:

• Partnering with local organisations to

improve the health, environment and

livelihoods of people without waste

services.

• Building the skills of local people to

deliver practical solutions to the waste

management crisis in their own

communities.

• Raising awareness of the benefits of

proper waste management and

campaigning for greater change.

3 billion without safe waste disposal

Global Waste Management Outlook, 2015

Bakoteh dumpsite, The Gambia 2015

The impacts of open dumping and burning

Images: Bangkok, Dar es Salaam, Karachi, Guadalajara

Photo: DCW, DCW, Jonathan Rouse, Geraardo Berache

• Severe local land, water and air pollution

• Climate change• Marine Litter

2 billion without waste collection

GWMO 2015

Photos: Open burning -Venezuela, others all Nigeria. © Kaine Chinwah, Jeroen IJgosse, Taiwo Adewole, Kaine Chinwah

Uncollected waste…

• Blocks drains and watercourses

• Is a vector for disease

• Burning leads to air pollution

A public health crisis directly harming child development…Where waste is not collected:

• Six times the levels of respiratory illness

• Doubled levels of diarrhoea

• Impacts from poor sanitation including:

• Nutritional malabsorption

• Stunting - 4.5cm shorter by 8yrs old

• Educational underachievement

UNHabitat, 2010, 2012

Waste is a global development issue

• You cannot ‘Grow Now, Clean up

Later’

• Decent SWM is crucial to allow

populations to reach their full

potential.

1. Gather Data

2. Develop waste livelihoods and create value chains for recyclable materials

3. Build local capacity and awareness by training trainers in waste issues and practical waste livelihoods

Empower communities to take responsibility for their own waste…

Who are the local players?

1. Government- National – overarching waste strategies; national initiatives e.g. plastic bag

bans

- Municipal – local collection/disposal and enforcement

2. Existing recycling infrastructure- ‘Informal sector’

- Middlemen and reprocessors

3. Other groups of interest- NGOs, Donors

- Local Community Based Organisations

Engaging communities…

• Understand local drivers:• Economic

• Public health

• …Environmental?

• How to engage?• Community leaders

• Fit in with local cultural norms

• Literacy?

[email protected] / wasteaid.org.uk


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