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Report launch
Dynamic Earth
Edinburgh
24 February 2004
www.scotlands-footprint.com
Richard A Smith
Project Chairman
Operations Director
Peter Jones
Director
Biffa Waste Services
Note: presentation in separate file
Prof. George Fleming
Managing Director
EnviroCentre
Key Projects
Key projects currently at different stages of delivery
and implementation:
• Scottish Resource Flow Analysis and Ecological Footprint;
• Northern Ireland Resource Flow Analysis and Ecological
Footprint
• Demolition Protocol
• Resource Sustainable Communities
• Intermodal Transport of Wastes and Recyclables for
England and Wales
Sustainable Design &
Construction:
The Demolition Protocol
Funded by:
• ICE
• Cory Environmental
• Cleanaway
A project driven by the Resource
Sustainability Initiative (the CIWM
& ICE Waste Board)
The Purpose Of The Protocol
A resource efficiency model …….. shows how the production
of demolition material can be linked to its specification and
procurement as a high value material in new builds.
Users Of The Protocol
Planning authorities responsible for development control
• Project teams responsible for managing demolition work
• Project teams responsible for the procurement &
specification of new construction materials
• Community groups involved in local recycling projects
ISSUES
100 million tonnes of construction and demolition waste is produced
every year in the UK, representing almost 2 tonnes of waste per
person (ODPM & SEPA Stats).
Note: stats do not include material kept on-site
England & Wales
Material is managed
in a similar way for
both countries.
Majority of material
stated as
“recovered”.
Management Options for C&DW
Landfill
41%
Recovery
37%
Exempt
22%
Management Options for C&DW
Recovery
70%
Landfill
5%
Exempt
25%
Scotland
With some significant
differences in how
material is managed –
greater use of landfill as
a management option.
Significant opportunities
to recover more C&DW to displace primary
aggregates are being lost
Examples Of Current Practice
Channel Tunnel Rail Link,
London
• Recycling infrastructure for
aggregates - use as a fill material
• Brick salvage – limited success
The Granary Buildings,
Glasgow
• Infill Yorkhill Quay
• Requires 150,000m3 of material
- buildings providing 75,000m3.
THE PROTOCOL CONCEPT
Driving demand for material
New Build Design:
• Specification
• Bill of quantities
Institutional
Support e.g.
the ICE
Planning Guidance:
•Driving
procurement
•Driving approaches
to demolition
Demolition Audit:
•Valuing & assessing recyclate
•Managing segregated
material
•Managing contamination &
testing
Increasing recyclate supply
Environmental Management System – A Resource Efficiency Process
Demolition Protocol Model
Mechanisms For The Planning Process
To Drive The Audit And New Build
Project Team
Demolition
(Protocol) audit
identifying:
• Recovery Index
for demolition produced from
BOQ.
• Demolition
recyclate material
types: percentage
and tonnage split
• Applications for
recyclate
identified in BOQ
Local Authority
Planning Process
Stage 2:
Planning Process
Stage 1:
• Evidence
required that the
Demolition
(Protocol) Audit
process has been
followed.
Planning
application for
new build requires recovery
index of the
design, as
prepared
through BOQ
process.
• Evidence allows
demolition
consent to be
given
Project Team
New build design
such that the
Recovery Index:
• Is linked to the
Recovery Index
from demolition
audit, if demolition
part of overall
project.
Or, if no demolition
• Is specified
through the BOQ
and new build
potential.
Accessing the protocol
documents:
www.ice.org.uk
www.londonremade.com
www.envirocentre.co.uk
A Code Of Practice For
Community Design:
Resource Sustainable
Communities
Funded by:
• Biffaward
• ICE
Supported and developed through
Forward Scotland
Steering Group:
ICE, RTPI, Environment Agency,
Forward Scotland, CIRIA,
Biffaward, Fauber Mansell
Definitions
1. A “Community” is defined as :
… a collection of residential, commercial, recreational,
industrial etc buildings where waste is produced
through both the development or redevelopment phase
(for example involving demolition) as well as in the
operational phase.
2. A “Resource Sustainable Community” is defined as :
… a community where the management of waste and
physical resource is given a “satisfactory” or higher
score, using a number of criteria related to Key
Performance Indicators (KPIs) on sustainability.
Intermodal Transport of
Wastes & Recyclables for
England & Wales
Funded by:
- Biffaward
- DEFRA
- Institution of Civil Engineers
- LaFarge
- British Waterways
- Highways Agency
Client: National Centre for Business and
Sustainability (Environmental Body)
‘History’ & Development of
Project
EnviroCentre/SNW: ‘An Integrated Waste
Transport Study of the Mersey Belt Region’
British Waterways: ‘Proposed Study into
the role Waterways can play in Sustainable
Transport of Waste and Recyclables in
England and Wales’
An Integrated Project
To demonstrate:
Environmental and economic benefits
of a multi-modal mass balance
approach to the transport of waste and
recyclable materials’
Recognising:
The UK - a revolution in waste
management practices needed over
the next 10-15 years
An Integrated Waste Management
Infrastructure for England and Wales
must effectively be built from ‘scratch’
The Challenges and Opportunities
The opportunity to plan strategically for:
• The mix of facilities required in terms of
type and scale
• Potential locations for these facilities
(Regional Specialisation, Environmental
Clusters, Industrial Symbiosis)
• The movement of materials between these
facilities (Intermodal Transport)
Strategic Vision
An Integrated National Network of Strategic
Resource Recovery Facilities, incorporating
the principles of:
• Regional Nodes;
• Environmental Clusters;
• Industrial Ecology and Industrial
Symbiosis, and;
• Integrated Multi-Modal Transport.
Nicky Chambers
Director
Best Foot Forward
Best Foot Forward
Bringing sustainability down to earth
Scotland’s Footprint -
Objectives
• Quantify and catalogue resources consumed by
Scotland and Scottish residents – the RFA
• Calculate the ecological footprint of Scottish
residents and compare with other regions – the
EFA
• Estimate ecological sustainability
• Quantify ecological sustainability of a range of
scenarios
• Assess availability and quality of data required for
this sort of analysis
Resource flow
analysis
• Scotland’s economy consumed
147 million tonnes materials,
products and fuels, of which:
• 51 million raw materials
• 60 million raw fuels
• 21.5 million products
• 13.5 million fuel products
• Produced 61 million tonnes CO2
• Produced nearly 15 million tonnes
waste
• Travelled 67 billion passenger-km
• Consumed 2.7 billion litres of
water
Ecological footprint analysis
Comparing
Scotland
Comparing Scottish Cities
Sustainability assessments
• Ecological Footprint of Scottish Residents was
5.35 gha per capita
• Global earthshare for 2001 was 1.9 gha per capita
• If every person in the world consumed resources
at this rate we would need 1.8 extra planets.
• Scotland’s biocapacity is 4.52 gha so consumption
is also exceeding the means of Scotland’s national
boundaries.
Improvement scenarios
• By component
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Household waste by production and management method
Household energy use by consumption and source
Personal transport by distance and mode
Water use by demand and source
• Variety of scenarios – business as usual, existing
policy targets, technical feasibility and…
• One planet lifestyles
– What sort of lifestyles could we have within the average earthshare
Scenarios – Domestic Waste
Scenarios - Transport
Scenarios – Household energy
Data and methodology
• Data is sufficient to indicate that Scotland
lifestyles are not currently ecologically
sustainable.
• Better data => consistent application and
more detailed analyses
• Sensitivity analyses would be possible
given confidence limits of source data.
Conclusions
• Scotland’s Footprint demonstrates the value of
quantification
– as motivator for action
– for evidence based policy making
– to assist in planning, assessing and monitoring our
progress towards sustainability
• Where to next?
– Better publicly available datasets – materials and waste
– Standardisation of terminology and methodology
– Widespread application
• Free downloadable
copy of the report
• Data spreadsheets
• Scottish Lifestyle
calculator
www.scotlands-footprint.com
Dr Richard Dixon
One Planet Living?
Head of Policy
WWF Scotland
WWF’s mission
To stop the degradation of the planet’s natural resources
and to build a future in which humans live in harmony
with nature, by
• Conserving the world’s biological diversity
• Ensuring that the use of renewable resources is
sustainable
• Promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful
consumption
Heading for Trouble
World Ecological Footprints
India - 0.77
Fair Share - 1.9
Scotland - 5.35
United States - 9.7
Venus
• similar size to Earth
• Christmas every day
• run-away greenhouse
effect
• average temp. 470ºC
• 90 atmospheres
• clouds of sulphuric
acid
• crushed, boiled and
dissolved
Mars
• rather smaller than
Earth
• gravity about 1/3rd
Earth’s
• average temp. -40ºC
• less than 1/100th of an
atmosphere, mostly
CO2
• Martians not friendly
Stuck with this one
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nice temperature
sensible gravity
plenty to eat
bit messed up
From knowledge to action
Policy level
• Use the scenarios in policy-making
• Adopt a footprint indicator
On the ground
• Angus Council
• Inverness Footprint
• WWF project
WWF’s work with local authorities
3 year project working with
with funding from
Scottish Executive
Scottish Environment Protection Agency
Scottish Natural Heritage
Scottish Power
WWF’s work with local authorities
• project officers based in North Lanarkshire and
the North East
• input to Council decision making
• local projects on waste, food, transport, energy
• a module for Eco-Schools on footprint
• full set of footprint calculations for the UK’s
regions
John Graham
Head of the Scottish Executive
Environment and Rural Affairs
Department
Questions & Answers
Panel
Richard Smith: Viridis
Peter Jones: Biffa
George Fleming: ICE/EnviroCentre
David Hay: EnviroCentre
Richard Dixon: WWF Scotland
John Graham: Scottish Executive
Nicky Chambers: Best Foot Forward
Polly Griffiths: TRL/Viridis
Thank you to …
The funders:
The advisory group:
Best Foot Forward
Bringing sustainability down to earth
For the venue & assistance: