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Development in waste management
Lessons learned in the Netherlands
Herman Huisman
ONEIA, Ontario, August 25th 2011
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Contents
•Dutch Performance in waste management•Elements of waste policy•Examples of progress made in last 20 years•From waste management to resource management•Outstanding Dutch suppliers•Netherlands Waste Management Partnership
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The Netherlands
16,5 million Inhabitants 7,2 million households12 provinces417 Municipalities60,4 million tons waste 9,2 million tons Household waste
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Waste management development stages and scale of government
Local issueMunicipal scale
Provincial scaleconcessions
Inter-RegionalPlanning, WMC
EU Internationalmarket
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ScaleOf government
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Recovery and disposal rates for MSW in 2008
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Goals of revised National waste management plan 2
• Decoupling between GDP and waste quantity: total waste quantity may not exceed 69 MT in 2015 and 73 MT in 2021
• Waste recycling total 85 % in 2015;• Household waste recycling from 51% (2006) to 60 % (2015)• Commercial waste recycling to 60 % (2015)• CDW recycling 95% and Industrial waste (recovery 90% of
which at least 85% recycling)• Optimize energy recovery from residual waste• Limit quantity of waste to be disposed (no combustible waste
land filled 2010)• Achieving Level Playing Field in EU (promoting market forces,
encouraging innovation)
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Elements of waste policy
• Waste hierarchy: prevention, re-use, material recycling, energy-recovery, incineration, land filling
• Economic instruments to steer the waste to the preferred treatment• Stringent standards for disposal and recycling: decrees on landfill and
incineration, standards for building materials, organic fertilizers, ban on landfill
• Planning at National level: from separate panning systems for hazardous and non-hazardous waste towards one integral national waste plan
• Cooperation between 3 levels of government: municipal, regional and national
• Education and communication to create awareness and enhance participation with separate collection schemes
• Producers responsibility: legal as well as non legal systems for car tyres, batteries, Weee, ELV, packaging
• Notification and registration of waste transports: from separate to one integral system of registration and notification of waste transports
• Control and enforcement
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Hybride responsibility (differs)
Municipality Producer
-Residual waste-Biowaste-Bulky waste
Payed by citizens (waste taxes)
-Cars/end of live vehicles-Cartyres-Electronic and Electriq equipment-Plastic piping-Plastic window frames-Batteries-Paper and cardboard-Packaging
Payed by consumers (taxes, recycling fee)
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Curbside Bring
Residual waste Every other week
Biowaste Every other week
Paper / cardboard Monthly street containers
Glass Street containers
Plastic packaging One or two times a month Street containers
Textile Quarterly Street containers
Bulky waste On demand Civic amenity site
Common Dutch Collection Scheme
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Waste Hierarchy?
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Moving towards recycling
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Successful sectoral waste policy has brought many benefits, and is still necessary, but
(*) limitations of present policies are becoming clear, few gains to reach in traditional waste policy in the Netherlands
(*) environmental impact generated by current EU/NL patterns of resource use is too high (ecological footprint)
(*) scarcity in itself has become evident, while we still face an increasing demand for materials (in developed and developing countries)
(*) shift from waste to materials and supply chains
Chances for innovatie, business-cases, new coalitions
Why Chain approach?
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The choice is (y)ours
• Traditional waste management solutions need to be applied to the full extend for separate collection and recycling worldwide
• Traditional waste management alone can not solve the challenges we are facing regarding resource use and material & energy scarcity
• We need to optimize material use and dematerialize our consumption
• It is necessary to act on many levels and with many partners.• The question is not which instruments to apply, but how to apply
and combine the available instrument. • Most important now is to raise awareness for the necessity of
action and to create the right environment for these instruments to be applied
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Some Dutch suppliers of environmental equipment and advice in waste management
• Separation/sorting: Stibbe management Cluster Environment: Boa Enschede, Nihot
Amsterdam, VanderBroek thermal processes; Machinefabriek Emmen, Bollegraaf
Appingedam; Goudsmit, Bakker (magnets), Orlako (identificatiesystems), Redox
• Composting/digestion: Gicom tunnels; Orgaworld: Pacom, Biocel, Maris-projects,
• Containers/collection vehicles: Translift, Engels, Sidcon, Geesink, vanSchijndel (icm
DAF), Terberg, VanderMolen (weighing), Bammens (underground systems) Spiro
(walking floors)
• Land filling: trisoplast (GID Environmental techniques); Afvalzorg (remediation
dumpsites)
• EPR: ARN (Car recycling Netherlands), NVMP (E-waste), Nedvang (packaging);
Stibat (batteries)
• ICT: GMT (clear), NMPO (vista)
• Consultancy: Grontmij, Royal Haskoning, Arcadis, DHV, Tauw, Tebodin,
Witteveen&Bos; Kema
• Contact: www.NWMP.nl
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Netherlands Waste Management Partnership
• NWMP is a partnership of producers of equipment, of consultancies and operators and government
• NWMP is aimed at Public Private Cooperation for international business
• NWMP-members can offer solutions for a large variety of problems. The Netherlands is, with respect to waste management, a frontrunner in the European Union and the world.
• In the Netherlands less than 5% of all the waste is land filled; over 83% is recycled and recovered, 12% Waste to Energy
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Thank you for listening!Any Questions?
www.agentschapnl.nl www.uitvoeringafvalbeheer.nl
herman.huisman@agentschapnl.nl
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Targets in EU legislation
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Capacity, ownership and tariffs waste processing
number public stakeholders
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Tariffs €/ton
Incineratio cap. 6.9 Mton
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landfill cap 55,2 Mm3
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cDigestion cComposting/ 12.3 Mton
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Total waste market 6.2 bln euro (2009)
Costs municipal waste management 2010 (collection and disposal) 1,8 bln € Average municipal waste tax: 251 € househould/yr. Costs 259€. Cost coverage 96.9%. 7.3 mln households, of which 95% of households have to pay
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