National Resources and Waste Strategy for England • Expected autumn 2018 • Will fulfil requirements of the EU Circular Economy Package • Michael Gove considering radical options on: • Plastics • Litter • Deposit return systems • Extended producer responsibility • Public behaviour change • Likely to include stretching recycling targets • But alternatives carbon based targets being considered • Major focus on plastics and food waste • More on consistency / minimum collection standards seem likely
Global Challenges and Opportunities • Chinese ‘National Sword’ initiative - from 1st March 2018: • Used cardboard max of 0.5% contamination • Mixed paper/card banned • Mixed plastic banned • Closing off the key market for MRF paper and lower grade plastic to the UK (and EU, North America etc.) • Stockpiling of recyclables • Falling prices for mixed paper/card and plastics • Drive to improve material quality • Marine plastics now a national & global political issue • Key brands (e.g. Coca-Cola, Proctor & Gamble, Unilever) desperate to be seen to ‘do the right thing’ on plastics
What does this all mean? • The last decade: • Lack of targets for English LAs has stalled progress • Austerity has been the key driver for English councils • UK set to miss EU recycling target of 50% by 2020 • The next decade: • Ambitious targets for municipal waste • Big focus on food waste and plastics • New funding sources from producers • Big focus on circular economy & creating new markets • Big focus on quality of recyclables and where they end up
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SESSION TWO
FOOD WASTE, THE BIGGER PICTURE DAVID NEWMAN MANAGING DIRECTOR, BBIA
David Newman Managing Director BBIA LARAC, Knaresborough June 28 th 2018
Subject of today’s presentation • Food waste, what’s the issue ? • The challenges and opportunities ? • Collection systems • Uses of bioplastics • Standards (EN13432) • Composting and AD
But first a little history….from rural farm civilisation to…
……an urbanised world
This is the first time in human history most of us live in cities
To feed this increasing and urbanised population we changed farming methods from extensive to intensive. The result of this has been desertification (see more later) We created long supply chains from countryside to cities, and across the globe. Food is no longer a local industry, but global. Flow of food is now through cities rather than remaining in the countryside. We have globalised food waste too.
Food waste, it’s a big deal 1.3 bn tons thrown away each year, land area equivalent to the size of China is used to grow wasted food.
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Food waste contributes around 8% to total GHG emissions
And intensive agriculture, climate change are creating desertification, and not just in developing world.
So we need to collect, treat and manage food waste. This is the challenge. This is also the opportunity. The UK sends 7.5 million tonnes of food waste to incineration and landfill instead of into treatment. By treating food waste we can make biogas, biomethane, compost, digestate, extracted Co2. We can meet targets to reduce GHG emissions, produce renewable energy, return nutrients to soil, restore the soil to soil loop that urbanisation has broken.
Policy drivers in the EU and the UK • food waste collections to be obligatory across the EU by end 2023 • Recycling calculation to change from «collected for « to «final treatment point». UK actually has around 32% recycling with new calculation methodology, not 44% • Recycling target to be 55% by 2025, 60% by 2030, 65% by 2035. We have giant steps to make in six years • Phase out of MBT • Fertiliser Regulation being finalised. • Bioeconomy Strategy being renewed
• Industrial Strategy, building on strengths of UK industrial base (chemistry), waste • Clean Growth Plan, promoting renewable heat and energy, zero avoidable waste • 25 Year Environment Plan, nature, soil quality, zero waste, plastics • Bioeconomy Strategy, due next month • Resource and Waste Strategy, due later this year; obligatory food waste collections for England being discussed now. • EAC findings on plastic bottles and coffee cups • Ellen Macarthur Foundation and WRAP to work on plastics recycling including compostables , the Plastics Pact
BBIA is signatory to the Plastic Pact which sees compostables as part of the solution
Ambition: A plastic free aisle Reduce plastic packaging, Compostable packaging- REDUCE WASTE make recycling easier easy to recycle,made in UK MAKE IN UK REDUCE GHG EMISSIONS ENHANCE SOIL QUALITY Collected with food waste Returns organic carbon and Is industrially composted in the UK nutrients to soil; resilient UK Can produce renewable biogas farming to produce food
Bioplastics aim to be part of the new circular economy, creating closed loop recycling
THESE COMPOSTABLE PLASTICS ARE DESIGNED TO COMPOST, THE STANDARD IN EU IS THE EN 13432 Key indicators of the EN13432 The material must be able to decompose naturally in the presence of micro-bacteria to at least 90% of its volume in 180 days in an industrial composting facility (the 10% represents loss of moisture mostly) The material needs to be non toxic to soil and plant life. The product has to undergo eco-toxicological tests including on the materials, adhesives, inks. Tests are undertaken in lab and field tests
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The role of bioplastics…. To reduce non-recyclable plastic packaging, especially lightweight To help get food waste cleanly back to treatment To avoid micro plastics contamination of soil through compost and digestate To increase overall recycling levels by increasing food waste capture and reducing plastics waste.
What bioplastics do and do not do… They compost in composting plants. They do not biodegrade in the street, the river, field, sea (yet). They address needs to improve food waste capture. They do not substitute all plastics for all uses. They are circa 1 mn tonnes now, maybe 5 million tonnes in 2025 Plastics are 300 mn tonnes now, maybe 350 million tonnes in 2025 Bioplastics are niche, but with food waste they can be of critical use
Finally…. Time has run out on climate change- if you are serious about it, you have to act now We have committed to Sustainable Development Goals, one of which is halve food waste. Introduce prevention methods and awareness now. We need organic carbon back to soil now, so quality outputs from AD and composting are vital, so food waste collections need to be implemented now. To ensure clean collection and treatment, use of bioplastics is essential. It costs more ? Well, so does treating sewage rather than using the river…but there are efficiencies to make in collection systems.
Everything is connected Thanks www.bbia.org.uk dn@bbia.org.uk David Newman MD, BBIA
ADBA’S PERPECTIVE ON SEPARATE COLLECTIONS CHARLOTTE MORTON MANAGING DIRECTOR, ADBA
The benefits of recycling inedible food waste through anaerobic digestion Charlotte Morton, Chief Executive, Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association
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The benefits of collecting and recycling all inedible UK food waste through AD • Production of 8 terawatt hours of renewable energy, enough to heat 615,000 homes each year • If diverted from landfill, avoided carbon dioxide emissions of 3.4 million tonnes per year, equivalent to removing 1.65 million cars from the road: 2 million tonnes per year from replacing fossil energy 300,000 tonnes from replacing commercial fertilisers 1.2 million tonnes from preventing methane emissions from landfills
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The need for separate food waste collections • Help prevent food waste by making amount wasted more visible • Ensure quality of all recyclables (including dry recyclables) • Necessary for isolating inedible food waste from non-organic waste streams • Help to raise recycling rates across all waste streams
What needs to happen now • Universal, consistent recycling system across whole of UK • Resources & Waste Strategy must include: • EU CEP targets • Commitment to Consistency Framework • Support for local authorities in introducing separate food waste collections • Local authorities should look for best opportunities to bring in separate collections
Food Waste Recycling Action Programme http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/foo d-waste-recycling-action-plan http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/cost-benefit-analysis-web-tool
Thank you! @charlotte_adba @adbioresources adbioresources.org biogastradeshow.com
FOOD WASTE COLLECTIONS: COSTS, BENEFITS AND POLICY CONTENT JENNY ROBINSON CONSULTANT, EUNOMIA RESEARCH AND CONSULTING
Food Waste Collection: Costs, Benefits and Policy Context LARAC Conference – Allerton Park 28th June 2018 Jenny Robinson – Senior Consultant
A Short Introduction • A few slides about Eunomia • And then the gubbins! • And time for a panel discussion • Accompanied by: • Joe Papineschi • Gareth Morton
Our Values To be agents of change for the better To think creatively in a commercial context To walk the talk To inspire each other To feel good about the work we do
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Service Areas Waste & Recycling Evaluation Leading waste, recycling and resource efficiency consultancy in Evaluation of projects and programmes to assess their UK and Europe; in the vanguard of efforts to establish a circular effectiveness, and make proposals for changes; duel diligence economy; combining policy and operational expertise for the clean-tech sector Energy Sustainable Business Providing advice in the low-carbon energy sector since 2001. Supporting businesses to become more resource efficient, Specialising in strategic and technical evaluation work, and reducing impact on the environment whilst generating challenging research and analytical tasks. commercial benefits. Includes circular economy business models and approaches. Green Economy Policy & Strategy Development of policies to support a green economy, Developing coherent, fully-costed and forward thinking policies spanning environmental fiscal reform, sector-specific policy and strategies on waste, energy, air pollution, climate change, and regulation, and the development of mechanisms to marine pollution and the natural environment, at the European, national, regional and municipal level. support the natural environment Procurement Helping the public sector deliver value from, and green, public procurement. Supporting businesses to improve life-cycle impacts and enhance resilience of supply chains
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Waste & Recycling • Collection services design Key Contact: Joe Papineschi • Waste contract procurement • Waste prevention policy • Partnership working • Litter prevention and street cleansing • Waste regulation compliance • Reducing contamination • Behaviour Change
From research to implementation
Information Available • Summary handout • Website • Newsletter • Consultants here today!!!
Running Order • Policy context • Local authority schemes - overview • Benefits • Costs
Policy Context • Revisions to Waste Framework Directive (WFD) • May 2018 - EU Council of Ministers adopted legislation as part of Circular Economy Package - legally binding from 4 th July • ‘Legally binding’ recycling targets for municipal waste: 55% by 2025 60% by 2030 65% by 2035 • By 2023 - 'bio-waste' (including food) to be collected separately or home composted • New producer responsibility system for packaging waste will mean producers covering at least 80% of costs of recycling (UK currently 10%)
Policy Context The last decade: • Lack of targets for English LAs has stalled progress • Austerity has been the key driver for English councils • UK set to miss EU recycling target of 50% by 2020 The next decade : • Ambitious targets for local authorities • Big focus on food waste and plastics • New funding sources from producers and maybe govt. • Big focus on circular economy & creating new markets • Big focus on quality of recyclables collected and where they end up
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