Transcript National Hazardous Waste Management Plan

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:
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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…
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It’s not recycling
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It’s not composting
Disposal
Yes, it is…
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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 (??):
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It is not Recycling
It is not Centralised Composting
It is not Energy from Waste
It is not Diversion from Landfill
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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