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Zero Waste Plans for Communities
GRRN National Zero Waste Action Conference July 30, 2011, San Diego, CA
By Gary Liss & Associates916-652-7850 [email protected]; www.garyliss.com
Ask for ZW Goal and Plan
Ask to Adopt Zero Waste as a goal and to direct staff to return with a Plan within 6 months to 1 year
Include Zero Waste as a goal in Sustainability or Climate Change Plans
ZWIA Principles and Practical steps towards Zero Waste
1. Adopt ZWIA Zero Waste definition
2. Establish benchmarks and a timeline to meet goals for measuring success and monitoring accomplishments
Don’t leave Zero Waste to “waste experts.” Involve all organizations that provide
waste reduction, takeback, reuse, recycling and composting services
Challenge all to pursue Zero Waste at home, at school, at university, at work and at play, while communities develop longer term policies and programs
3. Engage the whole community
Existing incinerators must be closed down and no new ones built.
Reform landfill practices to prevent all pollution of air and water Pre-process all residues at landfills before burial to
stabilize organics and prevent methane generation
More energy can be saved, and global warming impacts decreased, by reducing waste, reusing products, recycling and composting than can be produced from burning discards or recovering landfill gases.
4. Manage Resources not Waste4. Manage Resources not Waste
EU LANDFILL DIRECTIVE
Requires all Member States to introduce measures to reduce the quantities of biodegradable material going to landfill, to 35% of 1995 levels by 2016.
Waste must be treated before being landfilled
Avoided Collection & Disposal Costs Use fees levied on tons of waste hauled
or landfilled to fund programs: To develop policies, programs and
facilities To provide startup funds for EPR programs To educate and train Resource Managers
to use a Zero Waste approach To create green jobs
New Rules Stimulate Private Investment
5. Program Funding5. Program Funding
Educate residents, businesses and visitors about new rules & programs
Zero Waste is a strategy not a technology that aims for better organization, better education and better industrial design to achieve the cultural change needed to get to Zero Waste
6. Education and Outreach6. Education and Outreach
Alameda County Billboards
Alameda County Transit Ads
ID source, amount, type and value of discarded materials
Collect Data locally or get data from comparable communities
Use as baseline to ID recovery and employment opportunities, cost savings, and to measure success of reduction and recovery programs
Evaluate what additional source reduction, takeback, reuse, recycling and composting programs and facilities are needed to make those services more convenient to users than mixed material collection and disposal services.
7. Zero Waste Assessments7. Zero Waste Assessments
Where would you take this discard? (Circle item if you don’t know;
mark “TB” if you take back to store) 1. Reusables 3. P lant Debris
Working large appliances Leaves & Grass
Working small appliances Prunings and trimmings
Durable plastic Large branches & stumps
Usable textiles and leather 4. Putrescibles
Usable furniture Vegetative food scraps
Usable mattresses Fish and meat waste
Used books and catalogs Compostable paper
Used building materials Sewage sludge and manures
Other bulky items 5. Wood
Other reusables / repairables Untreated wood
2. Paper Treated wood
Cardboard 6. Ceramics
White ledger Concrete
Newsprint Asphalt paving
Magazines / catalogs Mixed C&D
Other office paper
Paperboard
Composite paper and plastic
7. Soils Other plastics
Gypsum wallboard Carpet
Fines (including rocks and dirt) Carpet padding
8. Metals Tires
Aluminum cans Asphalt Roofing
Steel cans 11. Textiles
Ferrous metals Poly fibers
Non-ferrous metals Cotton and wool
Non-working appliances 12. Chemicals and Ewaste
Auto bodies, engines and motors Batteries
9. Glass Motor oil, filters & other auto fluids
Clear glass Paint
Colored glass Fluorescent lights
Mixed glass Pharmaceuticals
Window (flat) glass Other household hazardous wastes
10. Polymers Disposable diapers /hygiene items
# 1 PET (CRV) containers Treated medical waste & syringes
#1 PET containers Treated wood
#2 HDPE (CRV) containers Brown goods
#2 HDPE containers (e.g., milk jugs) Computers and peripherals
#4 LDPE Film, plastic bags TVs and Monitors
Know Your Discards ValueMaterial % in Wastes Value ($/ton)
Reusables 6% $400
Putrescibles 26% $35
Paper 21% $100
Ceramics (C&D) 10% $15
Metals 9% $80
Polymers 9% $150
Soils 6% $15
Glass 4% $25
Textiles 3% $20
Plant Debris 3% $35
Wood 2% $15
Chemicals 1% $200
Richard Anthony, Resource Management in the New Millennium, 2005, http://www.richardanthonyassociates.com/presentations/rm_2005.ppt
To link community responsibility and industrial responsibility
Residuals need to be made very visible to ID Bad industrial design Bad purchasing habits
Change through dedicated research and education
8. Residual Separation & 8. Residual Separation & Research FacilitiesResearch Facilities
Communities can significantly change what is “economic” in the local marketplace with new policies, new rules and new incentives.
Restructure contracts and policies to make the avoided costs of collection and disposal a key engine for moving towards Zero Waste.
9. New Rules and Incentives9. New Rules and Incentives
Hawai’i New Rules & Incentives Producer and Retailer Responsibility,
take-back of non-recyclable, reusable or compostable products and materials
Source Separation (of designated organics, reusables & recyclables)
Compostable Organics out of Landfill Construction & Demolition (C&D) reuse
and recycling plans & permits
Businesses take back products and packaging at no cost to the public
Advocate for state and national EPR policies
Incentive to redesign products to be less toxic and easier to reuse and recycle
Don’t export harm and properly reuse, recycle or compost
Support small, local businesses and nonprofits
10. Extended Producer 10. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)Responsibility (EPR)
Remove subsidies for wasting locally controlled, and call for removal of others Tax incentives for mining and timber
harvesting Subsidies for “Energy from Waste” Landfill regulations that inadequately address
leachate, methane generation and perpetual long-term care
Shift community adopted garbage rates to Pay As You Throw incentives
11. End subsidies for wasting11. End subsidies for wasting
Adopt Precautionary Principle for municipal purchases
Purchase Zero Waste products and services Avoid single use products and packaging Return to vendors wasteful packaging Reduce packaging and buy in larger units Use reusable shipping containers Purchase reused, recycled and compost products Buy remanufactured equipment Lease, rent and share equipment Buy durables (using life-cycle cost analyses) Encourage businesses and Institutions to follow
12. Zero Waste Procurement12. Zero Waste Procurement
13. Zero Waste Infrastructure Develop locations for reuse,
recycling and composting, including Resource Recovery Parks
Get Compostable Organics out of Landfills and back to the soil
Support Zero Waste practices at businesses and institutions
Adopt deconstruction, reuse and recycling policies citywide for Construction, Demolition, Landclearing and Remodeling (C&D)
Support locally owned and operated local enterprises.
Resource Recovery Park, U.K.
Thousands of Businesses already divert over 90% of their wastes from landfill & incineration
Zero Waste Businesses reduce costs, increase efficiency, decrease carbon footprint and decrease long-term liability
ID, recognize and promote Zero Waste Businesses locally and challenge others to follow.
14. Zero Waste Businesses14. Zero Waste Businesses
Reduce First!
Design out Waste Waste is not Inevitable Businesses save the most by
eliminating inefficient practices Refuse and Return Takebacks
Review Data, Policies and ProgramsParticipation Strategy Service Opportunities Analysis Policies, Programs and Facilities OptionsEconomics & Impacts (Jobs, GHG)Implementation Plan (including timeline & “low-hanging fruit” for quick success)
Zero Waste Plan Scope
Key Lessons for Pursuing ZW
Someone Has to ASK to Adopt ZW Envt. Group, Staff, Elected, State
Connect to Other Problems Jobs, Economy, Facility Siting,
Sustainability, Climate Change Educate and Build Support ID & Promote Local ZW Businesses
Resolution for Zero WasteWHEREAS:The placement of materials in waste disposal facilities, such as landfills and
incinerators, causes damage to human health, wastes natural resources and/or inappropriately transfers liabilities to future generations, and
Landfills are the single largest man-made source of methane in the United States, and contribute significantly to global warming, and
Reduced wasting, and increased reuse, recycling and composting could dramatically help reverse climate changes, and
Communities are currently forced to assume the high financial cost of collecting, recycling, and disposing of increasingly complex and toxic products and packaging, which is an unfunded mandate, and
A resource management based economy will create and sustain more productive and meaningful jobs, and
Subsidies for wasting and use of virgin materials send the wrong economic signals to both consumers and producers, and
Federal, state and local governments around the world are adopting policies to hold producers financially and/or physically responsible for collecting, recycling, and properly handling of products and packaging, and
Resolution for Zero WasteProducers should design products to ensure that they can be safely
reused or recycled back into the marketplace or nature, and Most toxic product and packaging waste can be eliminated through
the use of non-toxic alternatives in product design, and Voluntary recycling goals have not reduced wasting sufficiently, and Zero Waste policies and programs will establish practical ways in our
community to eliminate waste or safely reuse, recycle or compost discarded products and packaging;
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT
The [City/ County/ Organization] hereby adopts a Zero Waste goal and directs staff to return with a Zero Waste Plan to implement that goal within one year.
If you’re not for Zero Waste,
how much waste are you for?