Policy Research on SMM

Implementation Summary For OECD WGWPR Global Forum

Five Winds International

OECD WGWPR Global Forum

October 26, 2010

Outline -

• Source Documents

• Key Conclusions

1. Strive For Four Key Principles

2. Consider Existing Instruments and Tools

3. Key Considerations for SMM Policy Approaches

• Summary and Discussion

Source Documents

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Conclusion 1: Strive For Four Key Principles

• Principle 1: Preserve Natural Capital

– Vision

– Strategies

• Material Flow and Impact Information

• Resource Productivity and Efficiency

• Material Throughput

• Reuse/Recycling of Materials

• Advancing Technologies

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Conclusion 1: Strive For Four Key Principles

• Principle 2: Design and manage materials, products

and processes for safety and sustainability from a life

cycle perspective

– Design Stage Critically Important

– Strategies

• Detoxification

• Dematerialization

• Design for Value Recovery

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Conclusion 1: Strive For Four Key Principles

• Principle 3: Use the full suite of policy instruments to

stimulate and reinforce sustainable economic,

environmental and social outcomes

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Conclusion 1: Strive For Four Key Principles

• Principle 4: Engage all parts of society to take active,

ethically-based responsibility for achieving sustainable

outcomes

– Vision

– Strategies

• Multilateral Stakeholder Engagement

• Open Information Flows

• An Ethical Perspective

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Conclusion 2: Consider Existing Instruments

and Tools

• Challenge

– ‘expanding the policy approach to cover the whole life-

cycle of materials’

– SMM Specific versus Relevant Activities

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Instruments

• Taxes

• Penalties

• Incentives

• Targets

• Education

• Investment in research and

innovation

• Etc.

Conclusion 2: Consider Existing Instruments

and Tools

Examples

• Japan’s Sound Material-Cycle

Society

• UK Climate Change Act

• California’s Green Chemistry

Programme

• Electronic Product Environmental

Assessment Tool (EPEAT)

• EU Sustainable Consumption &

Production

• Green Public Procurement (GPP)

• Dutch Chain-Oriented Waste

Policy

• UK’s Clothing Product Roadmap

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Conclusion 3: Key Considerations for SMM

Policy Approaches

• Potential need for aligned programs, policies and

initiatives

• Understanding of the system in question

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Conclusion 3: Key Considerations for SMM

Policy Approaches

• Potential for systemic change

• Availability and use of indicators

• Policy implementation

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Summary and Discussion

1. Strive For Four Key Principles

• Preserve Natural Capital

• Design and manage materials, product and processes for safety and

sustainability from a life cycle perspective

• Use the full suite of policy instruments to stimulate and reinforce

sustainable economic, environmental and social outcomes

• Engage all parts of society to take active, ethically-based

responsibility for achieving sustainable outcomes.

2. Consider Existing Instruments and Tools

3. Key Considerations for SMM Policy Approaches

• Potential need for aligned programs, policies and initiatives

• Understanding of the system in question

• Potential for systemic change

• Availability and use of indicators

• Policy Implementation

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Living Our Values

Five Winds is a Carbon Neutral Company

and follows a Sustainable Purchasing Policy

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