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Annual Conference 2008
Future Challenges for the Waste Management Industry
Waste Framework Directive Impact on the European Waste Management Industry
Egbert Tölle, BDE, FEAD Vice President, Board member REMONDIS
REMONDIS –
Your Partner For Water And Environmental Services
Revenue and Employees
Corporate Group
Water and Circular Flow Economy
Logistics
Bio-Industries
Revenue (2006)
Revenue (2007)
2,332 Mio. €
4,000 Mio. €
Revenue (2006)
Revenue (2007)
1,909 Mio. €
3,000 Mio. €
Revenue (2006)
Revenue (2007)
494 Mio. €
600 Mio. €
Revenue (2006)
Revenue (2007)
4,735 Mio. €
7,600 Mio. €
Employees (2006)
Employees (2007)
15,136
17,000
Employees (2006)
Employees (2007)
12,181
14,000
Employees (2006)
Employees (2007)
3,311
3,500
Employees (2006)
Employees (2007)
30,628
34,500
All figures (in this presentation) are consolidated, projection for 2007
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We are one of the leading Water And Environmental Services
Companies. The main facts summarised
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REMONDIS offers a far reaching network with over 500 sites worldwide
REMONDIS is present in 21 European countries as well as China, Japan, Taiwan and Australia
REMONDIS services municipalities with over a total of 20 million inhabitants
REMONDIS runs more than 6,000 commercial vehicles
REMONDIS collects, processes and markets more than 25 million tonnes of recyclable materials
each year
REMONDIS operates over 500 own facilities for Sorting, Treatment and Processing
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Waste Framework Directive – Opportunities and risks
Opportunities for the European recycling and waste management
industry:
- 5-step waste hierarchy
- principle of producer responsibility
- legal certainty through distinction between recovery and disposal
- acceptance of waste incineration plants as energy recovery facilities at a guaranteed
efficiency of 60 % for existing plants (65% new plants)
- binding recycling targets for paper, glass, metal, plastic, construction and
demolition waste until 2020
- increase of bio-waste recovery through a separate bio-waste directive
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Waste Framework Directive – Opportunities and risks
Risks for the European recycling and waste management industry:
- extension of the principles of self-sufficiency and proximity to mixed municipal waste
collected from private households destined for recovery
-Infringement of the principle of free circulation of goods for waste destined for
recovery; in contradiction with the principle of the European Internal Market
- no clear distinction between waste and by-products
- no harmonized standards for the end of waste status
- Possibility to ban imports for waste destined for incineration
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Example: Article 4 – waste hierarchy
The 5-step hierarchy:
1. Prevention
2. Preparing for Re-Use
3. Recycling
4. Other recovery, e.g. energy recovery; and
5. Disposal
Exceptions:
Possible departure from waste hierarchy where this is justified by
life-cycle thinking on the overall impacts of the generation and
management of such waste
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Example: Bio-waste directive
Separate directive on bio-waste
The commission is asked to carry out an assessment on the management of bio-waste
with a view to submit a proposal if appropriate. The assessment shall examine the
opportunity of setting minimum requirements for bio-waste management and quality
criteria for compost and digestate from bio-waste
Impact: Most positive. Accompanying measure to the landfill directive. Efficient
contribution to climate protection through a decrease in methane gas emissions.
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Example: Article 5 – by-products
Common position on by-products:
1. Definition with 4 criteria,
- further use of the substance or object is certain
- the substance or object can be used directly without any further processing other than
normal industrial practice
- the substance or object is produced as an integral part of a production process; and
- further use is lawful, i.e. the substance or object fulfils all relevant product,
environmental and health protection requirements for the specific use and will not lead to overall
adverse environmental or human health impacts
2. use of comitology with scrutiny to adopt measures to determine the criteria to be met for specific
substances/objects to be regarded as a by-product
Extended compromise:
Object/substance=by-product only when conditions are met. Since by-products fall into category of
products, exports of by-products should meet the requirements of the relevant Community
legislation.
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Example: Recycling targets (article 9 & 11)
Agreed targets:
1. by 2020: re-use and recycling target: 50% for household and similar waste,
2. by 2020: re-use and recycling target: 70% for non-hazardous construction and
demolition waste
Impact:
Most positive. Defined and binding recycling targets, which have to be implemented by the
member states, require the reinforcement of circular flow activities and investments in
favour of climate protection.
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Example: Classification of energy recovery / disposal
Classification of energy recovery / disposal
Waste incineration plants can be approved as energy recovery facilities if their energy
efficiency is as high as 65 % for new plants and 60 % for existing plants.
Impact: support of high energy efficient waste incineration; electricity and heat
generation through waste incineration helps to preserve primary resources.
Potential risk associated with implementation: „possibility of deviation“ from the
application of the energy efficiency clause based on local climatic conditions. Market
distortion through unequal thresholds.
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Example: Self-sufficiency and proximity principle, (article 16)
Common position:
- establishment of an integrated and adequate network of waste disposal installations
and of installations for the recovery of mixed municipal waste collected from private
households and similar waste from other producers
- member states may limit incoming and outgoing shipments of waste for energy
recovery (thermal treatment)
FEAD position:
The extension of the self-sufficiency and proximity principle to waste destined for
recovery
= is an infringement of the internal market through national protectionism
= counteracts the environmental objective of a „European Recycling Society“
= limits the effective use of resources
= limitation of the free movement of goods
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Example: Self-sufficiency and proximity principle, (article 16)
Waste quantities vs. plant capacities in Germany
in million
Mio. t tons
50
Stichtag
Due
date:TASi
TASi,
01.06.2005
1 June 2005
in million
Mio. t tons
50
45
45
40
40
35
35
30
Prognose2012*
Forecast
2012*
Lücke
Gap
8,5 Mio. t
backlog
Überhang
8,7 Mio. t
30
25
25
20
20
15
15
10
10
5
5
0
0
Kapazitäten2005
Capacities
2005
Abfallaufkommen
Waste
arisings 2005
2005
• Planned capacities
in the Netherlands not
taken into account.
• Impact on German
market to be expected.
Kapazitäten2012
Capacities
2012
Abfallaufkommen
Waste
arisings 2012
2012
Bio-mechanical
MBA-Kapazitäten
treatment capacities
Refuse derived fuel capacities
zusätzlicheWI-capacities
additional
MVA--
additional BM-capacities
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Forcierung of
Promotion
Bioabfallkompostierung
bio-waste composting
Bulky refuse and industrial waste recovery
Additional Refuse derived
fuel capacities
Waste
MVA-Kapazitäten
- incineration capacities
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Requirements
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Maintenance of free circulation of goods also for mixed municipal waste for recovery
Unequivocal distinction between waste and by-product during implementation in the
member states
Harmonized EU standards for the end of waste status
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Thank you very much for your attention.