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Plastics & Municipal Sustainability Opportunities

Tools to Enhance Sustainability Through Increased Recovery

Association of MunicipalitiesAugust 19, 2015

• CPIA’s Keys for Sustainable Programs

• Metrics

• Research & Innovation

• Communications & Education Tools

• Collaborative Partnerships & Pilot Projects

• Municipal Integrated Resource Recovery 4R’s Systems

• Region of Durham’s Waste Resource Recovery Systems

• Presentation by Mirka Januszkiewicz, Director of Waste on Durham’s integrated waste resource recovery system

• Making use of all 4R’s to divert waste resources from landfill

Session Overview

Serving as the national voice of the plastics industry in Canada since 1943!

• Member driven advocacy association representing the majority of the 3,170 companies employing 95,000 workers in Canada’s $30 billion plastics industry.

• Members from across the country and the value chain.

Canadian Plastics Industry Association

CPIA Core Focus – Post Use Resource Recovery

OBJECTIVES OF POST USE RESOURCE RECOVERY PROGRAM:

• Work collaboratively with stakeholders to improve the sustainability of plastics

• Increase the types and volumes of plastics diverted from landfill, through recycling & energy recovery options

• Increase the plastics recycling capacity within Canada

2014 Canada Access Rates for Plastic Container Materials

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2014 Access Rates Non-container Plastic Materials Growing Due to Innovation & New Technologies

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CPIA 2015 Report; 2013 data

Plastics Packaging Collected in Canada for Recycling

• 311 million kgs collected for

recycling

• 9% increase over 2012

• Bottle recycling still dominates

• 23% increase in film and 172%

increase in foam

• 80% of collected plastics is

reclaimed in Canada or US

CPIA 2015 Report; 2013 data

Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of Plastics Packaging

• March 2014, LCA study on benefits of plastic packaging – looked at materials, manufacturing, distribution, usage & disposal

• Examined substituting all plastic packaging with non-plastic alternatives - found significant detrimental impacts on packaging weight, transport energy consumption & global warming

• 4.4 more material used (by weight)• 2X more energy used• 2.3X more global warming potential

Report & press release: http://www.plastics.ca/_files/file.php?fileid=newsQghIRnSEQu&filename=file_NR_Plastic_PackagingGoodForenvironment.pdf

Plastics Packaging Helps to Conserve Natural Resources

GLASS 36%

PACKAGING

PLASTIC 3.5%

PACKAGING

Without plastics, distributors fleets would make

50% more journeys = more cost and emissions

Education Critical For Sustainability

• Images of various plastic packaging types and range of ads

• Free for municipal and recycling operators to use

• Register at CPIA Website -

www.plastics.ca/Recycling/PandEPlasticBottlesandContainers/I

mageBank/index.php

Image Bank Samples – Photos and Ads

Other Online Resources from CPIA

• Film – print, radio and TV ads

• Polystyrene – posters, newspaper ads, onsite banners, website content

• Tubs and lids – factsheets and market information

• Cap recycling – APR guidelines and FAQs, market information

www.plastics.ca/Recycling/index.php

Online Directory for Film –Canadian Content

CPIA Projects to Increase Recycling of Plastic Packaging

• 2014 pilot for ICI collection and recycling of film

• Partnership with Walmart & SC Johnson on return-to-retail film collection

• Ongoing partnership to manage PS foam at Montreal depot

• Support of other provincial and municipal programs to manage PS

Expanding Film Plastics Recycling to ICI Sector

• Project launched in April 2014

• Collecting/recycling stretch wrap from loading docks and back-of-store film, and educating retail tenants

• Material collected in first 4 months showed high levels of non-PE contamination

• Recycling partnership changed in August 2014; fine-tuned in Q4

• Case study and reporting in Q2 2015

Expanding Film Plastics Recycling to Retail

• Partnership with Walmart & SC Johnson announced in July 2014

• National return-to-retail model to collect a wide range of post-consumer film and bag materials

• Campaign includes in-store marketing –branded bins, e-signage, in-aisle shelf-talkers

• Upcoming national PR campaign

• CPIA providing funding for in-store support and conducting material audits at 6 Ontario stores – work ongoing

Industry-Municipal Partnership for Polystyrene (PS) Collection & Recycling

• Successful year-long pilot to collect PS at LaSalle’s Ecocentre in Montreal, Quebec made permanent in October 2014

• All types of PS collected – PS foams & rigid; food containers, cushion packaging, panels

• Partnership with member company to use backhaul infrastructure and include recycled PS in durable construction products

• Plans to introduce backhaul model to other municipalities in 2015

Expanding PS Foam Collection – New Densifier Technology

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Densifying PS reduces recycling and shipping costs substantially –systems expanding across Canada

British ColumbiaNew Brunswick

Densifiers established in other locations both municipal and IC&I

Nova Scotia

Ontario

Municipality of

Colchester

Canada

The 4R’s Benefits Plastics Sustainability

• Integrated Solid Waste Resource Management Systems utilizing 4R’s enhance opportunities for resource conservation, recycling & recovery

• Benefits to economy, environment & socially

• Plastics recycling & recovery increases from enhanced 4R’s systems

Image Source: Durham Works Spring/Summer 2015

Summary: Plastics are Too Valuable to Waste

1. Plastics make a positive contribution to the three pillars of sustainability and zero waste to landfill goals

2. Plastic packaging has high value in recycling & energy recovery

3. Communication and education needed to inform the public on the efficient use of plastics

4. Partnership models create unique outreach, collection, recycling & resource recovery opportunities

5. Integrated Solid Waste Resource Management Systems utilizing all 4R’s enhance opportunities for plastic resource conservation, recycling & recovery

CPIA Contacts

Joe Hruska

CPIA Sustainability Consultant

jhruska@cogeco.ca

416-930-1796

Krista Friesen

Vice President, Sustainability

kfriesen@plastics.ca

905-678-7749 x234

CPIA Website:

http://www.plastics.ca

Mirka Januszkiewicz, Director of Waste, Region of Durham

• Will present an overview of the Region’s award winning

4R’s approach to waste resource management.