100 kg less waste as a local policy target jean-pierre hannequart seville, 21 march 2007

100 KG LESS WASTE AS A LOCAL

POLICY TARGET

Jean-Pierre HANNEQUART Seville, 21 march 2007

THE AALBORG COMMITMENTS…

We are committed to … the prudent and efficient use of resources

and sustainable consumption and production.

We will therefore work, throughout our community, to:

1. avoid and reduce waste, and increase re-use and recycling.

2. manage and treat waste in accordance with best practice standards

3.avoid unnecessary energy consumption, and improve end-use energy efficiency.

4.undertake sustainable procurement.

5.actively promote sustainable production and consumption, in particular of eco-labelled, organic, ethical and fair trade products.

Resources Products

Wastes

REUSE REPAIR

RETHINK REDESIGN REDUCE

“100 kg less waste per inhabitant”

1. Why “avoid, reduce and reuse”?

2. Why aim for “kg less waste per inhabitant and per year”?

3. How to do “100 kg less”?

4. A European campaign: why and how?

5. How to join up and join in.

Why avoid, reduce and reuse?

• Reduce carbon footprint

• Lighten the ecological rucksack

• Lessen climate change

• Reduce socio-economic inequality

• Develop sustainable jobs

• Diminish costs

• Integrate European legal constraints

50,000 kg

3,500 kg 600 kgMunicipal waste

Industrial wasteResources

16,000 kg

Imported products andmaterial

Reduce carbon Footprint

European citizen = 2-3 planets

Products - Resources :

• 1kg iron: 2.3 kg

• 1kg zinc : 8 kg

• 1kg copper: 15 kg

5g gold ring = 3,000 kg

• Toothbrush: 1.5kg

• Mobile phone: 75 kg

• Laptop: 1,500 kg

Lighten the ecological rucksack

Lessen climate change

Product consumption (production-transport)

= 50% CO² emissions

… 1 kg paper = 1,9 kg CO² … 1 kg of meat from New Zealand = 7,5 kg CO²… 1 bottle of American wine by plane = 5 kg CO²(5kg more than for a bottle of French wine)

Reduce socio-economic inequalities

Develop sustainable jobs

prevention

Diminish costs

Vienna

Integrate European legal constraints

• …

The hierarchy

Recycling

Reuse

Reduction

Destruction

Integrate European legal contraints

COM(2005)667:

THE M.S

• Must adopt prevention programmes

• At the most appropriate geographical level

• Including objectives (qualitative and quantitative) and guidelines for follow-through

Why aim for fewer kg of municipal waste per inhab./year?

• To translate prevention into a significant result

• To have a quantitative European reference

• To have a target that is flexible for the differing local realities

• To promote an action field with several sections

Prevention can be translated into a significant quantative

result

• Many local micro-projects lead to significant reductions of many kg of waste

• Weight is not the be-all and end-all but…quantity of Kg/inhab/year of municipal waste =European guideline for sustainable development

A quantitative European reference point

Amount of municipal waste in KG/INHAB/year

(2004) (EUROSTAT) UE-15 : 580 UE-25 : 540

The European average currently stands at around:

600KG/HAB/AN

A quantitative European reference

The amount of waste managed by the town councils is between:250 and 800 KG/INHAB/AN

(2005 Eurostat)

A flexible concept

Municipal Waste = Household rubbish + other household waste + “similar” waste (between + 5% et + 100%)

= What local authorities consider to be waste flows to manage

A field of action with many sectors

• Households (door-to-door, in local skips, at rubbish dumps)

• Schools• Offices• Businesses• Hospitals• Public parks• Administrations• …

How to do “100 kg less”?

• A theoretical amount• Several major preventative actions

and four waste flows

A theoretical amount

The European average of 600 kg/inhab/year of municipal waste can be broken down as follows:

- ORGANIC (36%) 220

- PAPER-Not packaging (16%) 100

- PACKAGING (25%) 150

- BULKY-DIVERSE (22%) 130

Reduce organic waste

• Promote composting at source• Fight food waste• Choose reusable nappies

Promote composting at source

Promote composting : - individual - neighbourhood - green areas

If “green” municipal waste (kitchen, private gardens, parks) comes to 180 kg/inhab/year, we can envisage composting between 20 and 35kg.That is to say, an average European target of:

27 kg less/inhab/year

By promoting individual composting, Landkreis Scheinfurt (G) estimates that it has reduced its waste by 50kg/

inhab/year, whereas the Asti province (I) estimates 30 kg/inhab/yr

Fight food waste

Vienna estimates the potential for reduction of shop food waste at nearly 40kg/shop/day.Brussels has measured nearly 15kg/inhab/yr

wasted by households and nearly 6kg/child/year for schools

FOOD = 20-30% of total CO2 emissions

Based on household and shop food waste of 30 kg/inhab/yr, we can

realistically target: 8 Kg less/inhab/year

The amount of nappies used is increasing all the time and has been evaluated at nearly 10 kg/hab/an in Wallonia (B).They make up about 6% of household waste inMilton-Keynes (UK)

By promoting reusable nappies, Landkreis Schweinfurt (G) reduced waste by 9.4kg

to 7kg/inhab/year

The potential European average is realistically :

2 Kg less/inhab/year

Choose reusable nappies

Reduce paper waste

• Oppose free newpapers and/or flyers• Dematerialise schools and offices

STICKERS AGAINST FREE NEWSPAPERS AND/OR FLYERS

Oppose free newspapers and/or flyers

Based on 20Kg/inhab/year,

We can aim for: 5 kg less/inhab/year

Reduce paper through basic awareness-raising

Dematerialise offices and schools

a. - 17%

b. - 44%

c. - 37%

d. - 9%

e. - 7%

f. - 3%

g. +14%

h. - 11%

i. - 8%

j. - 29%

Lead campaigns against paper waste in offices and schools

The Brussels Region calculated that papers used came to nearly

150kg/worker/year and 7kg/child/year…We can realistically aim for: 10kg less/inhab/year

Reduce packaging waste

• Choose bottles that can be returned• Promote tap water• Develop reusable bags• Fight over-packaging

Choose bottles that can be returned

Based on an average yearly consumption per person of 65 bottles of wine (weighing 400g) and 100 bottles of beer and other drinks (weighing 100g), the amount of waste, if it is all ‘one way’ is 36 kg/inhab/year.

By returning a third for reuse, we can reach:


Fight “one way” packaging

Consumption of bottled water

(litres/inhab/2004)

Promote tap water

The consumption of bottled

water is going up all the time:

it reached 184 litres/inhab

in 2004 in Italy

Based on a consumption of8kg/inhab/yr (200 bottles x 40g), we can aim for:


Italy 184

Belgium 148

France 141

Spain 137

Germany 125

Cyprus 92

Czech Rep. 87

Austria 82

Portugal 80

Develop reusable bags

In France, it is estimated that the production of

disposable plastic bags has reached 17 billion,

which is 2kg/inhab/year

Potential reduction is at least 1 kg/inhab/year

Amount put on the market

(kg/inhab/2000)France 206Italy 198Netherlands 193Luxembourg 190Germany 187UK 167Average 161Denmark 159Spain 157Belgium 144Austria 131Sweden 115Finland 87

Fight over-packaging

The distribution sector in the UK has

adopted targets for reducing waste

by 5 to 10%

Based on 100kg/inhab/year, we can aim for:


At Charleroi(B)13% have changed their buying habits based on eco-labelling

http://www.acrr.org/publications/tech-reports.htm

Reduce bulky and other waste

• Promote reuse of clothes• Promote reuse of furniture, electric

and electronic equipment, toys and other bulky items

• Fight unnecessary purchasing

Promote reuse of clothes

60% of clothes should be reusable, which out of 8kg/inhab/year is:


Promote reuse of furniture, EEE, toys and other bulky

items

Out of 90kg/inhab/year we can aim, through repair-reuse and second-hand sales, for:


An ACR+ investigationrevealed 20 to 90 kg/inhab/year of bulky waste collected by

town councils

Fight excess purchasing

Nuremberg (G):

“99 WASTE-FREE PRESENTS”

There are at least 12 kg/inhab/year of excess purchases: we will aim for 3 kg LESS

How to do “100 kg less”?

Amount Potential in Kg/inhab/year reduction Organic 220 40

Compostable greenery 180 30Food waste 30 8Nappies 10 2

Papers (not packaging) 100 15

Free printed press and flyers 20 5Office papers and others 80 10

Packaging 150 25Bottles 35 12Bottled water 6 2Plastic shopping bags 2 1Other excess packaging 107 10

Bulky and other 130 20Clothing 8 4Furniture,toys,EEE/other 110 13Excess purchases 12 3

-------------------------------------------- TOTAL 600 100

A European campaign?

4 AXES

• Exchange of information and experience between local actors

• Update guidelines• Work in partnership• Encourage a European prevention week

A European campaign?

AXE 1:EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND EXPERIENCES BETWEEN LOCAL ACTORS

• No two towns or regions are identical, but all have to face similar challenges

• Preventative action is fairly complex• The international exchange of information and

experiences enables everyone to do more, better.• Parallel initiatives increase efficiency

European campaign =

Adopt one slogan for everyone Carry out actions in parallel Communicate via a shared web site Make a list of training needs Share ideas and even communication material

AXE 2: UPDATE GUIDELINES

• The waste prevention policy needs quantitative targets and guidelines for follow-through

• Towns and regions have an essential role to play in fixing similar objectives and guidelines

• The differing situations do not prevent the possibility of jointly researching technical tools for the main municipal waste flows and for the main potential preventative action categories

-> European campaign =

ACR+ working groups/ “clusters for prevention guidelines”: - biodegradable waste - paper waste - packaging waste - bulky waste

AXE 3:WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP

• “Twinning” is particularly appropriate for local prevention policies

• There is a need for partnership in north-south relations ( or decentralised cooperation) and similarly between new and old EU Members States.

European campaign =

Coordination via ACR+ Secretariat of several bilateral international agreements between towns and regions on waste prevention

AXE 4:ENCOURAGE A EUROPEAN PREVENTION WEEK

• Reinforcing the visibility of preventative actions will help reproduce them and to increase their effectiveness

• Adopting time period in which to raise awareness amongst European citizens will help encourage multiple initiatives

European campaign =

ACR+ lobbying for official adoption of a European

prevention week

HOW TO JOIN UP AND JOIN IN?

By signing the Charter “100kg less waste per inhabitant”…

and by actions:- Either as a relay-actor- Or as ACR+ actor-member

As a relay-actor

Commitments

Advantages

• Increase efficiency by accumulation action “weight”• Increase political visibility (cfr internet links)• Receive ACR+-news-prevention-ACR+ (via e-mail)• Receive (at reduced prices) documents and

campaign material

• Keep waste prevention an important, quantitative political priority

• Carry out many actions in 2008-2009 under the banner “European campaign for waste reduction”

• Create an internet link with ACR+ website

As ACR+ actor-member

• As for relay-actors• Transmit data and other information to ACR+ secretariat (to

add to private website) • Participate in one of the “Clusters for prevention guidelines”

or contribute in 2008-2009 to at least one international conference on prevention and/or international partnerships on preventative actions

• Participate in “European prevention week”

Commitments

Advantages

• Access to technical area of ACR+ website• Share expertise on guidelines• Possibility of contributing in international settings• Possibility of helping the ACR+ secretariat for action partnerships• Participation in lobbying on European policy and … political

visibility (internet links) , news-prevention-ACR+ (via e-mail), documents and campaign material (at reduced prices)

ACR+Association of Cities and Regions for recycling and sustainable resource

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100 kg less waste as a local policy target jean-pierre hannequart seville, 21 march 2007

Documents

organic waste

household waste

waste flows

similar waste

waste weight

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