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Annual Report and Vision
Jane GardnerCRUK 3rd Annual Conference
6th July 2011
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• Not-for-profit membership association
• 60 Members across the supply chain: raw material suppliers, manufacturers, retailers, waste companies, recyclers
• 14 Carpet Manufacturers
providing core funding
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• Foster Entrepreneurship
• Facilitate market driven solutions
• Establish a collaborative environment across the supply chain
• Evaluate opportunities according to the waste hierarchy
Prevent
/Redesign
Reuse
Recycle
EfW
Landfill
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• 420,000 tonnes carpet waste arising per year
• 11% residual waste in Civic Amenity sites
• Carpets composite material – recycling challenge!
Target 25% diversion by 2015
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Government Waste review June 2011:
• Landfill tax escalator ~ £80/t by 2014/15
• Restrictions on sending textile waste to landfill to be considered over the course of the current parliament
• Support for producer responsibility deals for manufacturers taking responsibility for their product from design to the end of its life
• WRAP including textile in latest business plan
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Results and Achievements
2010
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0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
2007 2008 2009 2010
Recycling
EfW
10% Diversion 2010:
• 3.5% Recycling
• 6.5% Energy from Waste
60% increase compared
to 2009
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• CRUK manufacturing members diverted more than 4000 tonnes from landfill in 2010
• Both hard and soft waste recycled into high value outlets
64% Diversion of post industrial waste by CRUK Manufacturers
Zero waste likely to be achieved by end 2011
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0
20,000
40,000
60,000
80,000
100,000
120,000
140,000
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Recycling
EfW
Targets
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Equestrian
25% Outlet
Development
3%
Fibre reprocessing
1%Plastics
reprocessing
4%
Tile Reuse
and recycling
2%
EFW
65%
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Carpet Tiles:
• Nylon recovery
• Reuse
Synthetic carpet:
• PP recovery from carpets
• Equestrian surfaces
Wool rich carpets:
• Intact carpet for mulch mats
• Use in growing media as fertiliser
• Pulling fibres for use in underlay
All carpet types:
• Energy from Waste (EfW)
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-Specialist carpet
recyclers list
increased from 6 to 24:
o 8 re-use specialists,
mainly tiles
o 16 recycling and fuel
flock producers
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Outlet Development
Collection and Sorting
Raising Awareness/ Promoting
existing outlets
Networking
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Outlet Development
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Post Installation , 16,600 t
Post Industrial, 8,400 t
Mixed Synthetics, 237,250 t
Wool rich, 103,750 t
Carpet Tiles, 54,000 t
Post consumer 395000 t
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Outlet Development
Bitumen and fibre recovery
from carpet tiles EfW
capacity growth for
carpets
Basic research
on Difficult waste
streams
Wool and PP fibre
reprocessing
PP Fibres with latex
for strengthening / binding
PP Fibres with latex for plastic recovery
Wool Fibres for growing
benefit in agriculture
50 small scale
development trials
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• Cropper Dust approved for use in contained growing media
• Trials with WRCS via composting route
Pulling fibres for non – wovens:
• Exploiting wool insulation properties
• Trials with air laying and thermal bonding technologies
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Plastic Recovery:
– Wood replacement
– Plastic extrusion into pellets for
moulding
Fibres for binding and strengthening:
– Mortars; Floor screeds; adhesives
– Rubber compounding
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• Size reduction trials
• Tile chips sampled for use in asphalt
• Nylon recovery –Aquafil
• Bitumen into road surfaces/roofing:
Desso, Econpro
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• Funding for R&D activities: – to meet EA requirements for wider land usage of
wool rich carpet shred
– PP fibre recovery
– Funding support for manufacturers to redesign carpets for recycling
• Large Scale Technology Demonstration trials to give recyclers confidence to:– Invest in equipment
– Extract highest possible value from post consumer carpet waste stream
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Collection Trials
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Material should be kept:
• Dry
• Clean
• Uncontaminated
Enable sorting
Achieve highest value
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• Trials undertaken with Griffiths Waste in South Wales
• 80 retailers contacted
Findings
• Carpet is often left with customers to dispose of via Civic Amenity sites
• Those that take back interested in scheme
• Key concerns:
– Cost
– Space on site for containers
Recycler looking into investing in collection equipment that will meet the needs of local retailers
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• Winders Carpets in Bradford contacted 4 Recycling in Leeds
• Discussions with recycler regarding most suitable collection options for carpet
• Wool rich carpets collected on pallets
Result: Winders have diverted 90% carpet waste from landfill
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• Focus on collections and recycling of post installation carpet off cuts
• Potential to increase recycling volume significantly by tackling 16,000 tonnes of post installation off cuts
• Treat carpet as a raw material and keep out of the general waste stream!
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Raising Awareness;
Case Studies; Networking
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Collection:• Bristol City Council keen to increase
landfill diversion rate
• Carpets collected by Council through: bulky waste collection and containers at 2 civic amenity sites
Recycling: • Material delivered to Greenback
Recycling for Fibre Recovery: o Synthetic fibres and wool blends
extracted,
o Cleaned to remove dirt and latex
o Baled for resale into equestrian market, plastics industry and horticultural sector
Result: Bristol City Council diverted 700 tonnes of carpet from landfill in 2010
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Background:• Britannia Building Society
refurbishment• Forbo arranged partnership
with Anglo Social – Social enterprise providing work for people with autism
Result: • 1000 m2 tiles reused and
provided to socially disadvantaged households
• Anglo Social started up as social enterprise
CRUK Members working together in partnership
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• Dissemination at events
• Regional networking events
• Exhibitions/seminars:
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• Diversion from 1.5% to 10% in 2 years
• Manufacturing members diverted 4,000 tonnes internal waste
• Raised awareness of existing carpet outlets
• Specialist carpet outlets increase from 6 to 24 in two years
• 62 members across the carpet supply chain
• Achieved increased awareness within DEFRA and WRAP of carpet sector voluntary producer responsibility position
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• Divert 50,000 tonnes from landfill – 12 %
• Increase recycling outlets to 40
• increase awareness of outlets
• Conduct selective trials
• Collection trials: Retailer take back/Post installation waste
• Lever in additional public funding to support technical work on end market development
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• 10% Diversion rate
• 24 recycling outlets
• CRUK fits in with government waste strategy
• CRUK manufacturing members demonstrating environmental leadership
Let’s keep the momentum going!
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