WASTE MANAGEMENT: Turning waste into a resource

Joanne Pollard, chief executive, CO2 Sense (chair)Professor Peter Hopkinson, director of the University of Bradford’s Sustainable Enterprise CentreNigel Sagar, senior sustainability manager, SkanskaKevin Schofield, principal consultant, BDOMark Richmond, principal consultant, WSP

Professor Peter Hopkinson

Director of the University of Bradford’s Sustainable Enterprise Centre

Ecoversity programme 2006 – current

Ecoversity

• CIBSE Carbon Client of year 2012• International Sustainable Campus Network Winners

2011• BiTC Environment Index Platinum 2012• Carbon reduction 2005 – 2014 50%, against a sector

rise of 3.9%• Recycling rate – diverted from landfill 83%• Two BREEAM Outstanding building projects• A model resource efficient organisation ? • Why a step change may be needed ?

Resource revolution – drivers

• Rising global population – 9bn• 3 billion new middle class consumers by 2030• Rising economic and environmental costs of resource

extraction and • Absolute scarcity or access to strategic materials • Geopolitics and political unrest• 44 million people in poverty from rising food prices in

2010

Re-thinking waste – transition to a circular approach to resources

• 5 year multi-activity HE pioneer partnership programme with Ellen Macarthur Foundation (2010 -15)

• Shift from waste management to resource efficiency to re-design

Two key principles:

• Design out waste : ALL products and infrastructure designed and optimised for cycle of disassembly and reuse

• Differentiate consumable and durable resources, components and materials (biological and technical)

• Major business opportunities for the Leeds City region?

Value creation opportunities for Leeds City region

• Mckinsey/ Ellen Macarthur Report 2012 Transition to a circular economy

• EU $630 Bn p.a material cost saving opportunities (selected technical resources)

• New business models• New forms of customer interaction• Innovative designs of daily products• E.g new and growing reverse sectors

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