Transcript Washington State: The Next to Legislate?

Product Stewardship
Programs and Policy
Overview
Sego Jackson
Kara Steward
Veronica Fincher
Northwest Product Stewardship Council
Product Stewardship
Product Stewardship is an environmental
management strategy that means whoever designs,
produces, sells, or uses a product takes
responsibility for minimizing the product's
environmental impact throughout all stages of the
products' life cycle. Greatest responsibility tends
to be held by the product producer.
Extended Producer Responsibility
EPR is a policy in which the producer’s financial
and/or physical responsibility for a product is
EXTENDED to the post-consumer stage of a
product’s life cycle (OECD)
 responsibility and costs are shifted upstream in the productionconsumption chain, to the producer
 provides incentives to producers to incorporate environmental
considerations into the design of their products
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Product Stewardship Laws 2006
(source: Product Stewardship Institute)
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Product Stewardship Laws 2011
(source: Product Stewardship Institute)
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EPR Legislation Introduced 2011
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Electronic Waste Laws Passed
Electronic Waste Laws Introduced 2010 or 2011
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Washington and Oregon’s
EPR E-waste Laws
The Basics:
 Product manufacturers implement & finance recycling
program throughout the state (collection through processing)
 No state tax or fee charged to the consumer at point of purchase
or end of life
 Covered Products - computers, computer monitors, laptop
computers and televisions
 Geographic “convenience” requirement
 Program Implementation Date – January 1, 2009
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Successful Program Throughout
All of Washington State
– Funding for collection, transportation and processing
of covered electronics.
– Service in all 39 counties
– Service in all cities with population greater than
10,000
– Service for residents, small businesses and govs,
schools, non-profits.
– 246 collection sites/services (12 public sector)
– 45 transporters
– 7 processors
– New businesses started
– New processors established in state
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GREEN JOBS!
92% of WA residents have an E-Cycle
collection site within 10 miles of home
June 12, 2009
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“The mission of the WMMFA is to provide responsible end of life recycling
for the citizens of Washington State in compliance with state law and
Department of Ecology direction, and in the most cost-effective manner for
our members. The WMMFA is committed to being the lowest cost plan
provider for mandated electronics recycling in Washington State, to
provide fair and equitable expense allocation to our members, and to treat
all stakeholders and service providers fairly and reasonably."
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220 participating manufacturers
Transparency: Open meetings, Monthly and Annual Reports, Auditable
accounting of materials collected and where they go.
Operating cost per lb. charged producers: about $.24
2010 WMMFA Admin cost = about 3.5%
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Private Sector Jobs and
No Bloated Bureaucracy
WMMFA Staffing
– 2.5 FTEs
Department of Ecology Staffing
– 2.5 FTEs
Private Sector Jobs (collectors, transporters,
processors) estimated late 2009
– 140 net new, 360 continuing (OR and WA)
Collection Sites – almost entirely private sector,
including private reuse charities (WA)
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“The E-Cycle Washington program has been a complete success for both our business
and the local community. Thanks to the E-Cycle program we were able to create much
needed jobs locally as well as provide environmental stewardship by saving over a
million pounds of dangerous electronic waste from reaching our landfills. We are
proud to be part of this groundbreaking program and hope that it becomes a model for
the future of recycling and environmental sustainability.”
Elcid Choi
Ace Metal Company and Mukilteo Recycling Center
VP - Operations
How are We Doing?
First year of operation – over 38.5 Million lbs.
Second year of operation – over 39.5 Million lbs.
• 39.5 M lbs. x $.35 per lb. = $13.82 Million
• 39.5 M lbs. x $.24 per lb. = $9.48 Million
• 98.5% of materials collected reused or recycled
(1.5% wood debris landfilled)
• Additional units were sold or donated for reuse
by qualified collectors before “entering” system 20
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How Are We Doing?
Washington Year One = 5.78 lbs. per capita
2010 = 5.92 lbs. per capita
• California Year One = 1.81 lbs. per capita
(4 years to reach WA year one levels)
• Maine Year One = 3.16 lbs. per capita
(4 years to reach WA year one levels)
• Oregon Year One = 4.96 lbs. per capita
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What are We Collecting?
Collected products = 39.5 million lbs. in 2010
 Televisions = 63.3%
 Monitors = 27.2%
 Computers = 9.5%
But… What are We Missing?
144 million lbs. of covered and other e-waste
being land-filled annually in WA!
 Televisions = 58 M lbs.
 VCRs, DVDs, DVRs= 3.3 M lbs.
 Computers and computer peripherals = 13 M lbs.
 Gaming equipment = 1.4 M lbs.
GREEN JOBS and COMMERCE!
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What About Packaging?
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EPR For Packaging Worldwide
First EPR law: German “Green Dot” program – 1991
EU Packaging Directive – 1994
Now 33 EPR schemes covering 33 European Nations
Various programs throughout Canada, notably Ontario.
Stewardship Ontario
• provides funding for 50% “blue box” curbside service
• moving to 100%
Programs established or proposed in Asia, Australia, South
America, United States
EPR For Packaging in U.S.
First comprehensive EPR legislative proposals for packaging:
• Vermont 2010 introduced by beverage industry
• NRDC working w/ beverage industry and other stakeholders
on model legislation for states
EPA convened Dialogue: Sustainable Financing of Municipal
Recycling: Packaging and Paper
Steward Edge consulting in U.S., all EPR consultancies
expanding staff and services.
Sustainable Packaging Coalition addressing EOL management
and responsibilities
Numerous webinars sharing info between Europe, Canada,
U.S.
EPR For Packaging in Washington?
Not eminent! But good to start talking about possibilities that
would help us.
Could ERP approaches…
Assist with covering curbside costs and expand what is
collected curbside?
Provide funding for MRF improvements and equipment
upgrades?
Address away-from-home collection options?
Remove problem materials from curbside recycling/disposal
streams? Plastic bags? Glass?
Finance or establish collection options for rural areas/noncurbside areas?
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