National Hazardous Waste Management Plan
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Re-Use – An NWPP Perspective
Keiron Phillips - OCLR
National Waste Prevention Programme
NWPP Launched April 2004 by Minister for the Environment
Core Prevention Team in EPA
NWP Committee Chaired by EPA. Members include:
IBEC/SFA
HSE
Enterprise Ireland
ISME
SEI
Forfás, IDA
Solid Waste Prevention i.e. stopping the waste before it
starts!
Waste Prevention 2006
Elimination
Reduction
“Waste Prevention”
Re-Use
Recycling
Energy Recovery
No…
It’s not recycling
It’s not composting
Disposal
Yes, it is…
Avoidance
Elimination
Reduction
Reuse of materials
Reduced “hazardousness”
Conservation of raw materials
Common sense
… an old concept dressed up in
new clothes!
Evolution of RE Concept
Advent of Green Business Initiative/LAPD 2
Need to address water (and energy too!)
“new” Waste Framework Directive (Waste
Framework Directive (2008/98/EC)
“Re-use” and “Preparation for Re-Use”
Porto June 2010 (EWWR Event)
Resource Efficiency 2010 !
“Resource Efficiency”
What it is:
What it is not (??):
It is not Recycling
It is not Centralised Composting
It is not Energy from Waste
It is not Diversion from Landfill
Elimination & Reduction
Reuse of Materials or Products
Repair of Products
Reduced “Hazardousness” eg
Substitution (RoHS, Deco-paints,
REACH)
Part of the eco-efficiency
paradigm (conservation of All
natural resources incl. Materials,
Water & Energy)
Common sense: “Waste Not,
Want Not”
Resource Efficiency
Energy
Waste
Packaging
Raw Materials
Water
Some Current Projects within NWPP
Greenbusiness.ie
Green Hospitality Award
LAPN
Packaging Waste Prevention Project
€co-cert
Green Healthcare
SMILE Resource Exchange
Stop Food Waste/Master Composters
Community Re-Use Network
EPA part-funded 2010 and 2011
Project Officer and Establishment of Office
Aims (EPA)
Promote Re-Use Projects and Activities
Give Collective Voice to Members at NWPC
Collectively Report Re-Use activities and outcomes
Grow Network
Dissemination of guidance/best practice
National Waste Prevention Programme
For More See:
www.nwpp.ie
www.greenbusiness.ie
www.ghaward.ie
www.preventandsave.ie