world cleanup 2012 conference - zero waste strategy (by joan marc simon)
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Joan Marc Simon from Zero Waste Europe presents 10 steps to zero waste. Presentation about the future of waste management.Presentation held in Let's do it! World Cleanup 2012 Conference in Tallinn, Estonia (12-15th of January 2012).http://letsdoitworld.orghttp://facebook.com/letsdoitworldhttp://twitter.com/letsdoitworldTRANSCRIPT
AWAY?...
Burying waste into history
Engineered Landfill with Gas CollectionAdvantages: Reduces fires, isolated, can generate energy
Problems: - Cost - Corruption- leachate - excludes wastepickers - increases methane generation- 20-80% capture of methane- incentivises methane generation- Incentivises disposal
Mass Burn Incinerator
Problems- Cost- Corruption- Air emissions- Fly and bottom ash- GHG emissions- Destroys resources- Competes with
recycling- Needs auxuliary
fuel
Advantages: no methane emissions, generates heat and power
Extraction ofVirgin
Materials
Production ofManufactured
itemsConsumption
DiscardedMaterials
Solid waste
Air pollution
Water pollution
Carbon dioxide
Solid waste
Air pollution
Water pollution
Carbon dioxide
ENERGY ENERGY
GLOBAL WARMING
A LINEAR SOCIETY
Extraction ofVirgin
Materials
Production ofManufactured
itemsConsumption
DiscardedMaterials
Solid waste
Air pollution
Water pollution
Carbon dioxide
Solid waste
Air pollution
Water pollution
Carbon dioxide
ENERGY ENERGY
GLOBAL WARMING
RECYCLING OF MATERIALS
Extraction ofVirgin
Materials
Production ofManufactured
itemsConsumption
DiscardedMaterials
Solid waste
Air pollution
Water pollution
Carbon dioxide
Solid waste
Air pollution
Water pollution
Carbon dioxide
ENERGY ENERGY
GLOBAL WARMING
REUSE OF OBJECTS
WHY WASTE?
Planned obsolescence
"Instilling in the buyer the desire to own something a little newer, a little better, a little sooner than is necessary.“ Brooks Stevens, 1954
Perceived obsolescence
SUSTAINABILITY?
Running constant deficit in the global ecological budget
In 2010 we used 150% of the resources that the earth produced.Source: Global Footprint Network
Source: EEA
As important as building a circular economy is to reduce the materials use
Changing the concept:From Recycling to Zero WasteThe real solution to the waste problem
SUMMARY10 steps to Zero Waste
SourceSeparation
Resources
SourceSeparation
Door to DoorCollection
Evolution of separate collection
• Source: Catalan Waste Agency
SourceSeparation
Door to DoorCollection Composting
Separate collection of organics is at the core of ZW!
Recycling
SourceSeparation
Door to DoorCollection Composting
RecyclingReuse, Repair & Community
Center
SourceSeparation
Door to DoorCollection Composting
Reusable items
Value of Los Angeles discarded materials
RecyclingReuse, Repair & Community
Center
SourceSeparation
Door to DoorCollection Composting
Next to source separation and treatment we need to reduce residual fraction!
1) Waste reduction initiatives2) Economic incentives
Waste ReductionInitiatives
RecyclingReuse, Repair & Community
Center
SourceSeparation
Door to DoorCollection Composting
Reduce food wastageIn time collection of food from supermarkets and restaurants
Plastic bag taxes (Ireland) or bans (Italy, Philipines...)
Desmaterialisation of presents
Promotion of reusable nappies
Workshop to train to self-repair...
effecorta
Waste ReductionInitiatives
RecyclingReuse, Repair & Community
Center
SourceSeparation
Door to DoorCollection Composting
EconomicIncentives
1 2 $
free freeThe more
you waste,the moreyou pay!
“Pay as you throw” system
1 2 $
free freeThe less
you make,the moreyou save!
“Save as you throw” system
Waste ReductionInitiatives
RecyclingReuse, Repair & Community
Center
SourceSeparation
Door to DoorCollection Composting
Residual Separation &
Research Center
EconomicIncentives
MORE TOXICS
NON-RECYCLABLE FRACTION
RESIDUAL SCREENING & RESEARCH FACILITY
MORE RECYCLABLES
DIRTYORGANIC FRACTION
INTERIM LANDFILL
BIOLOGICAL STABILIZATIONRESEARCH
CENTER
NON-RECYCABLE MATERIALS
Local University
Or Technical College
ZERO WASTE RESEARCH CENTER
Waste ReductionInitiatives
RecyclingReuse, Repair & Community
Center
SourceSeparation
Door to DoorCollection Composting
Residual Separation &
Research Center
Better Industrial
Design
EconomicIncentives
The Message to Industry:
If a product can’t be reused, repaired, recycled or composted it should be redesigned or taken out of the system.
We need better industrial design for the 21st Century
Waste ReductionInitiatives
RecyclingReuse, Repair & Community
Center
SourceSeparation
Door to DoorCollection Composting
Residual Separation &
Research Center
Better Industrial
Design
EconomicIncentives
Temporary Landfill
Iniziative Riduzione
rifiutiRiciclaggio
Separazione alla
sorgente
RaccoltaPorta a Porta
Compostaggio
Residual Separation &
ResearchFacility
BetterIndustrial
Design
IncentiviEconomici
INTERIM LANDFILL2020
RiutilizzoRiparazione eCentro per la
Comunita’
70 - 80% COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY
Iniziative Riduzione
rifiutiRiciclaggio
Separazione alla
sorgente
RaccoltaPorta a Porta
Compostaggio
Separazione del residuo e
Centro di ricerca
migliore design
industriale
IncentiviEconomici
INTERIM LANDFILL 2020
RiutilizzoRiparazione eCentro per la
Comunita’
70-80%COMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY
20-30%INDUSTRIAL
RESPONSIBILITY
10. An interim landfill for biologically
stabilized dirty organic fraction
ZERO WASTE1) Is low tech - most of the facilities can be designed and built by local
companies2) Keeps most of the money spent on the system in the local area, creating
jobs and small business opportunities3) Every component is operating somewhere in the world4) It is better for health, better for the economy and better for the planet.5) Introduces “discipline” into the system via residual separation and
research6) Integrates higher education into solution7) Is positive8) Brings people together not drive them apart (zero waste is above
politics)9) Challenges the creativity of both citizens and decision makers10) Offers more hope about the future
What does it take?
San Francisco• San Francisco (1,5 millon hab)
set a Zero Waste goal for 2020.• Generates 1,8 million
tones/year• No incineration to avoid
competition with recycling and reduction.
• 2003 – 30%• 2010 – 75%• 2020 – 100%
Kovalam - IndiaThe implementation of Zero Waste
as a reaction to an incineration project allowed to:
- Compost more (less fertilisers needed),
- Reuse,- recicler,- Gas,- Generate jobs (especially for
women),- Change the production system
from linear to circular and bring in EPR and research,
- Increase tourism.
make lovenot war.
make lovenot waste!
References
• The European Environment - state & outlook 2010• The Global Footprint network• UNEP Waste and Climate Change report 2010• Eurostat – waste statistics• www.no-burn.org • www.storyofstuff.org • www.zerowasteeurope.eu• For pictures: www.seppo.net • Credit to Paul Connett for many slides.