Cities and regions

moving to zero waste

Jean-Pierre HANNEQUART

Directeur général IBGE / President ACR+

COR,Open Days, 11 October 2011

1. Local-regional authorities (LRA’s) are key-waste players

2. LRA’S moving to waste – resource efficiency

3. - LRA’s moving to waste prevention - Why not a COR–platform to support LRA’s moving to

waste prevention ?

4.- LRA’s moving to waste recycling - Why not a COR–platform about waste selective

collection good practices ?

-> CONCLUSIONS : CALL FOR PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN COR AND LRA’S NETWORKS FOR

THE EUROPEAN RECYCLING SOCIETY

PLAN

Citizen awareness

Public procurement

Waste strategies

Waste infrastructures/

performancesWaste taxation or

Others Economics Instruments

Waste collection

LOCAL AND REGIONAL

AUTHORITIES

PRODUCERRESPONSIBILITY

SELECTIVECOLLECTION

SUSTAINABLELIFE-STYLE

PROMOTION OF REUSED-RECYCLEDPRODUCTS

WASTE PLANS

PERMITSREGISTRATION

PAYT

1. Key waste-players !

WASTE PREVENTIONPROGRAMME

RECYCLINGTARGETS

A multi-R WASTE

approach Rethink

Recycle

Reuse

Repair

Reduce

Redesign

Resources Waste

EnergyRecovery

2. Moving to waste – resource efficiency

PRODUCTS

To reduce pollution

To tackle climate change

To preserve material and energy resources

To promote local economy and jobs

To increase competitiveness of EU industry

To stop « life-cycle breaks »

To increase resource efficiency

WASTE PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT =

Moving to waste – resource efficiency

Need of exchange of Good practices

Between local –regionalauthorities

Need to develop “ prevention action partnership”

(Twinnings/cooperation agreements)

Need to identify quantitative targets

and indicators orprevention

(Experts Clusters)

Need to increase Awareness

at cities and regions level(European Week

for Waste Reduction)

3. LRA’s moving to waste prevention

EX: ACT AGAINST FOOD WASTAGE(food = 20-30% of total CO2 emissions)

EU BENCHMARK-10 (of 30) kg

LRA’s moving to waste prevention

EX: COMPOSTING AT SOURCE(individuals, neighbourhood, green areas)

EU BENCHMARK-20 (of 100) kg

LRA’s moving to waste prevention

EX: ENCOURAGING DEMATERIALISATION

EU BENCHMARK-9 (of 75) kg

LRA’s moving to waste prevention

Actions labelled as “EWWR actions”

through a registration process

based on common criteria across Europe.

Too much waste !

Better production !

Better consumption !

A longer life for products !

Less waste thrown away !

EUROPEAN WEEK FOR WASTE REDUCTION (LIFE + )

LRA’s moving to waste prevention

Why not a COR–platform to support LRA’s moving to waste prevention ?

EXCHANGE OF PREVENTION

GOOD PRACTICES

European Week for Waste Reduction

PREVENTIONACTION

TWINNING

PREVENTIONTARGETS

RECYCLING PERFORMANCES AT LOCAL-REGIONAL LEVEL

4. LRA’s moving to waste recycling

VARIOUS SELECTIVE COLLECTION SYSTEMS

Door-to-door(BE, FR, A, All, LU,…)

Bring Systems (SW, FN, S, PT, UK,…)

LRA’s moving to waste recycling

Source: EEA, 2007.

A MULTI-SPEED WASTE EUROPE

LRA’s moving to waste recycling

Cfr the waste framework directive:

PUBLIC AUTHORITIES RESPONSIBLE FOR WASTE COLLECTION HAVE

TO APPRECIATE THE FEASIBILITY-OPPORTUNITY

« technical, environmental and economic » of separate

collection for:

- waste recovery (art.10 /1)

- recycling quality (art.11 /1 § 2)

- (in 2015) paper, metal, plastic, glass (art.11 /1 § 3)

- used oils (art. 21)

- biowaste (art. 22)

LRA’s moving to waste recycling

SELECTIVE COLLECTION

GOOD PRACTICES

European Week for Waste Reduction

CAPACITYBUILDING

RECYCLINGPERFORMANCES

Why not a COR–platform about selective collection good

practices ?

WHY NOT the COR – partner of LRA’s

network working for the EUROPEAN

(PREVENTIVE &) RECYCLING SOCIETY !

Event Title, Date

FINAL CONCLUSION

ACR+Association of Cities and Regions

for recycling and sustainable resource management

Avenue d’Auderghem1040 Bruxelles

+ 32/ 2 234 65 00

Jean-Pierre HANNEQUARTjph@ibgebim.be

www.acrplus.org

Gulledelle 1001200 Bruxelles+32/ 2 775 76 02

www.ibgebim.be

Thank you !