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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