Transcript Zero Waste Plans

Zero Waste Plans
Richard Anthony
Zero Waste San Diego
San Diego February 24 , 2010
Zero Waste
• A Policy, Path, Direction
• A Target, Process, Way Of
Thinking
• Recognizes 71 Tons “Upstream”
For Every Ton MSW
Wasteberg
From Waste Mgt. To Resource
Mgt.
• Stops Climate Change as landfills are one of
largest sources of Greenhouse Gases
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The only peer-reviewed internationally accepted
definition of Zero Waste is that adopted by the
Zero Waste International Alliance:
“Zero Waste is a goal that is ethical, economical,
efficient and visionary, to guide people in
changing their lifestyles and practices to
emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all
discarded materials are designed to become
resources for others to use.
Zero Waste means designing and managing
products and processes to systematically avoid
and eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste
and materials, conserve and recover all
resources, and not burn or bury them.
Implementing Zero Waste will eliminate all
discharges to land, water or air that are a threat
to planetary, human, animal or plant health.”
“If a product can't be reused, repaired,
rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold,
recycled or composted, then it should be
restricted, redesigned, or removed from
production.”*
*Martin Bourque, Berkeley Ecology
Center, GRRN Zero Waste
Conference, NY, April 2005.
Upstream
• Reduce volume and toxicity of raw
materials and manufactured products
• Rethink and redesign products and
processes to reduce wasting and planned
obsolescence
• Embodied energy savings (upstream) are
greater than energy produced
• Businesses can adopt policies and make
vendors comply
Downstream
• Ensure the highest and best use of
products and packaging at the end of their
useful lives
– Reuse products and packaging, retaining their
original form and function
– Recycle materials that are not reduced or
reused
– Compost materials that are not recycled
ZW Business Principles
1. Commitment to the
triple bottom line
2. Use Precautionary
Principle
3. Zero Waste to
landfill or
incineration
4. Responsibility: Take
back products &
packaging
5. Buy reused,
recycled & compost
6. Prevention pollution
and reduce waste
7. Highest and best use
8. Use economic
incentives for
customers, workers
and suppliers
9. Products or services
sold are not wasteful
or toxic
10.Use non-toxic
production, reuse
and recycling
processes
Reuse, Recycling, & Composting Reduce Resource Use
& Greenhouse Gas Production
Aluminum
Steel
Paper
Glass
Energy
Use
90-97%
47-74%
23-74%
4-32%
Air
Pollution
95%
85%
74%
20%
Water
Pollution
97%
76%
35%
Mining
Wastes
97%
Water
Use
40%
80%
58%
50%
[1] R. Letcher and M. Shiel, “Source separation and Citizen
Recycling”, in William Robinson, ed., The Solid Waste
Handbook, New York, 1986.
All discards can be sorted into
12 Market Categories…
1. REUSABLE
Appliances
Durable Plastic Items
Textiles
Mattresses & Furniture
Composite C & D
Books & Catalogues
Other Repairables
2. PAPER
Cardboard
White Ledger
Newsprint
Magazines / Catalogs
Other Office Paper
Paperboard
Other / Composite Paper
3.
PLANT DEBRIS
Leaves & Grass
Prunings
Branches & Stumps
4. PUTRESCIBLES
Food Waste
Fish and Meat Waste
Sewage Sludge
5. WOOD
Untreated Wood
Treated Wood
6. CERAMICS
Concrete
Asphalt Paving
7. SOILS
Gypsum Board
Fines
8.
METALS
Auto Bodies
Aluminum Cans
Steel Cans
Ferrous Metals
Non-Ferrous
10. TEXTILES
Poly Fibers
Cotton and Wool
11. POLYMERS
#1 PET
#2 HDPE
#3 - 7
Tires
Asphalt Roofing
9. GLASS
Clear Glass Containers
Mixed Glass Containers
Clear Glass
Green Glass
Mixed Glass
Brown Glass
Window Glass
Other Glass
12. CHEMICALS
Used Motor Oil
Paint
Household Hazardous Products
Medicine
Sharps
Batteries and Lights
Discards Sorted into the
12 Market Categories
Note: Half of the Pie is Organic Material Suitable for Composting
Reuse
3%
Chemicals
0%
Polymers
11%
Metals
6%
Glass
3%
Ceramics
2%
Textiles
4%
Plant Debris
10%
Paper
37%
Putrescibles
19%
Soils
1%
Wood
4%
Revenue and Job Potential
from 1,000,000 Tons of Discarded
Material
Clean DozenSM
Master Categories
Jobs
Tons
per Year
Market Price
$/T (est.)
Total Value of Discards
($)
1. Reuse
350
28,000
550
15,400,000
2. Paper
65
370,000
20
7,400,000
3. Plant Trimmings
30
100,000
7
700,000
4. Putrescibles
85
190,000
7
1,330,000
5. Wood
24
40,000
4
320,000
7
20,000
4
80,000
7. Soils
20
10,000
7
70,000
8. Metals
35
60,000
40
2,400,000
9. Glass
75
30,000
10
300,000
1,020
110,000
100
11,000,000
340
40,000
200
8,000,000
4
2,000
15
30,000
2,055
1,000,000
6. Ceramics
10. Polymers
11. Textiles
12. Chemicals
Total
47,030,000
Setting Up Zero Waste Programs
1. Get top management on board
2. Examine the current system of discard
management
3. Get everyone involved in making the plan
4. Let every one know what you are doing
1. Adopt ZWIA Zero Waste definition
2. Establish benchmarks and a timeline to meet
goals for measuring success and monitoring
accomplishments
– A key part of the planning process is
establishing goals and targets that start
with the Board and top management
3. Engage the whole company.
– Don’t leave Zero Waste to “waste experts.”
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– Involve all agencies and departments,
existing vendors and resource markets.
– Challenge all to pursue Zero Waste at work.
4. Use fees levied on tons of waste hauled or
landfilled to fund programs
5. Educate employees and vendors about the new
rules & programs
– Zero Waste is a strategy not a technology that aims
for better organization, better education and better
industrial design to achieve the cultural change
needed to get to Zero Waste
6. Perform Zero Waste Assessments
– ID amount and type of discards produced
– Collect Data by generation points
– Use as baseline to ID recovery and employment
opportunities, cost savings, and to measure success
of reduction and recovery programs
7. Residual Separation & Research Facilities
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Residuals need to be made very visible to ID
Bad industrial design
Bad purchasing habits
Change through dedicated research and education
8. Develop New Rules and Incentives to move
towards Zero Waste
– new policies, new rules and new incentives.
– Restructure contracts and policies to make the avoided costs of
collection and disposal a key engine for moving towards Zero
Waste.
9. Enact Extended Producer Responsibility
– Businesses take back products and packaging at no cost
– Advocate for state and national EPR policies
– redesign products to be less toxic and easier to reuse and recycle
10. Support Zero Waste Procurement
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Adopt Precautionary Principle for municipal purchases
Purchase Zero Waste products and services
Avoid single use products and packaging
Return to vendors wasteful packaging
Reduce packaging and buy in larger units
Use reusable shipping containers
Purchase reused, recycled and compost products
Buy remanufactured equipment
Lease, rent and share equipment
Buy durables (using life-cycle cost analyses)
Encourage businesses and institutions to follow as well
11. Expand Zero Waste Infrastructure
– Develop locations for reuse, recycling and composting,
including Resource Recovery Parks.
12. Challenge Employees to lead the way to
Zero Waste
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