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Transcript of Swru022008 Mil Tek Neil Holland
Waste Management in the Rural Sector
South West Rural Update
Sandy Park – Exeter
19th February 2008
Neil Holland – Mil-tek Direct
Re-cycling & Waste Management
The Mil-tek Presentation
• Why Re-cycle
• Perception of Waste
• Legislation Drivers
• Customers & Businesses
• Costs and Revenues
• Case Study
• Open Forum – Q & A Session
How waste is perceived
• A necessity in Business – Waste has always been back of house, low cost, low visibility
• Unglamorous - None of the attractions of IT, HR or finance
• Low priority - no great need to change the way waste is handled.
• INCREASED COST HAS CHANGED PERCEPTIONS
Typical waste management c.2001
What changed?• Legislation leading to an end to the UKs
dependence on cheap access to landfill
• Landfill infrastructure running out fast
• Public perceptions of waste and recycling changing
• Re-cycling can save Business money
The EU Landfill Directive 1999
• Made the environmental case for reducing landfill disposal.
• Set binding targets to reduce the volumes of waste member states send to landfill. Fiscal penalties for non-compliance.
• Introduced new requirements for landfill site operators to make provision for maintenance of the sites long after operations cease.
• Pre-treatment - finally introduced in the UK in October 2007
Landfill Tax
• Introduced in 1996
• Larger increases since 2007 budget – now a major driver of the increase in waste costs
• Politically neutral
• Still very low in UK relative to our EU neighbours - eg Ireland
Landfill Tax
• 2003 =£14• 2004 =£15• 2005 =£18• 2006 =£21• 2007 =£24• 2008 =£32• 2009 =£40• 2010 =£48• By 2012 total landfill costs could be well over £100 /
tonne
Public perception – image is everything to some !
Public perception
• Consumers increasingly exposed to higher levels of domestic recycling
• The next generation of consumers will be even less tolerant of organisations who fail to recycle
• Organisations employing best re-cycling practices will enjoy positive PR and reputation
Can we value aesthetic cost of waste?
Waste disposal in the UK is still very cheap
• Domestic waste costs lumped in with Council Tax – hides the true cost
• Landfill rates in other EU member states is much higher
• Both households and business should expect large increases in the cost of disposal.
Recycling will cease to be optional
• Commercially essential to reduce costs
• Consumers will demand best practice
• Legislative barriers to old methods of disposal (Packaging Regs & Pre-treatment already introduced)
Many firms still aren’t ready
• Research carried out by the EA recently suggests that a third of small businesses aren’t aware of the requirement to pre-treat their waste - that’s up to 1.6million firms who could be breaking the law and are potentially liable to EA fines. Netregs 2007
Recycling is no longer optional !
• A quote from an accountant in the Daily Telegraph in response to the pre-treatment laws (source KPMG)
“…the first step towards making it illegal not to recycle”
• Daily Telegraph 15 November 2007
Recycling adds ££££s
• Every tonne of material removed from the landfill stream saves the organisation upwards of £50.00
• Some recyclable materials command revenue – cardboard and plastic, metals, textiles, EPS
Why would you put it into landfill?
What happens when there is too much recycling?
• Consumer demand for recycled products
• Many recyclables are derived from finite resources - plastics from oil
• Pressure on land use for pulp – more profitable to grow food or fuel crops.
• Low cost of shipping recycled goods to areas of high demand (far east) from western consumer economies
Case Study
• Care Home
• 40 Bedroom
• No Re-cycling
• 4 1100 Wheelie Bins twice a week
• 1 X Clinical Waste once a week
Can Mil-tek save this Care Home Money ?
Is it Financially Viable ?
• Clinical Waste – No change
• Current costs £10.00 per bin - £80.00 p.w.
• Reduction of 75%
• All Cardboard, Newspapers, Paper, most soft plastics, Tins, Cans & PET Bottles removed from land-fill stream
• Equipment less that £20.00. Plus £20.00 for 2 Bins – Savings Over 4K per annum
CostPublic PerceptionHealth & Safety IssueSave Space/StorageCustomer ExpectationsChange in LegislationCurrent AffairsGlobal Warming
Prioritising Recycling?
Mil-tek Re-cycling & Waste Management
• Open Forum – Q & A Session