recycling and recovery UK

Waste and recyclingThe next five years: is local democracy at odds with efficient service delivery?

Prepared by Stuart Hayward-Higham, Technical Development Director for SUEZ

LGA

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SUEZ | who are we ?

We harvest

resources discarded

by others.

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SUEZ | who are we ?

We recover

resources from the

waste others throw

away

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SUEZ | who are we ?

We recover energy

from the materials

that cannot be

recycled

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The activity chain | that we are involved in

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The activity chain | interventions planned

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A value chain | that needs to work together

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Collaborate | else we fail

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Coordination | to achieve

9 I

To get to 70% packaging recycled we need 5 x 93% efficiency

93% of people

Doing 93% of the right

things

93% of the time

With 93% of materials

being sorted

And 93% of materials

being reprocessed

HABIT MAKES EXCELLENCE

• Brand communications &

advertising

• Retail communication & advertising

• LA communication

• Waste company communication

• School education

• Government communication

QUALITY MONO STREAMS

• Product alignment and

design range reduction

• Recyclability by design

• Consistent collections

• Minimal Contamination

• Optimised MRF design

SECONDARY RESOURCES

• Minimised designed-in

contamination

• Quality mono stream feedstock

• Optimised refining &

reprocessing

MAKE IT SIMPLE

• On pack labelling

• Recycling by numbers

• Consistent collections

• Reduced product

variations

REINFORCE & REPEAT

• Continual communication and

advertising from all

• Incentive and penalty

• Bin weighing

• Targeted interventions

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push | top down or bottom up.

10 I

Most progress today has been achieved top down

National

policy

Local

delivery

Systems

imposed

Expectations

definedTargets set

After a certain level, progress will be more delivered

by decentralized multiple small improvements

Social

sector

Local

activists &

actions

Local

solutions

Local

empowerment

Value chain

actions

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So What ?

11 I

• Working across the value chain will be crucial

• Local solutions, empowerment and facilitation

will be fundamental

• Find a balance between the efficiency of

standardization and the care and emotion of

local citizen & community delivery

• Be happy to fail in something, fail quick, learn

and move on.

• Accept change in all we do with waste.

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End

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Stuart Hayward-Higham

Technical Development Director