From regional to national wide textile recycling in Finland

TelaketjuThe collection, sorting and recycling chain for Textiles

14.6.2017 Utrech, Netherlands

Jukka Heikkilä

Southwest Finland Waste Management Ltd Lounais-Suomen Jätehuolto Oy (LSJH)

17 owner municipalities, 415,000 inhabitants

• Turnover € 28 million, personnel 85

• Fees decided by joined Board –> no tax money used

• Purchased external services ~ 60%

• Services provided in cooperation with over 700 companies

• Main tasks:

• Waste management for residential and public sector

• Waste reception, utilisation and treatment

• Hazardous waste from households and agriculture

• Waste transport arranged by the municipality

• Advice on waste

4 waste treatment centers

8 waste sorting stations

Material 390 million Tpa

Import and domestic

CIRCULAR ECONOMY

IN FINLAND Energy 386 TWh

Municipal wastes 2,7 milllion Tpa3 % of waste

< 0,6 % material flows

Waste 98 million Tpa

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Sources:

Statistics Finland 2014

Ministry of the Environment

material flows report 26/2013

LSJH Statistics 2015

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• Preservation of the value of products and materials

• Waste elimination• Resource efficiency

Much more challenging• Products get more complex

and the value is lost• Removal of contaminants• Pseudo recycling• Even indicators are missing

• CO2 emissions reduction• Emission-free (carbon neutral)

energy production• Climate editing• Resource efficiency

Challenging, but the means and indicators exists

Succes in Finnish municipal wastemanagement – waste to energy

CIRCULAR ECONOMY

– what does it mean?

CLIMATE CHANGE PREVENTION / CIRCULAR ECONOMY

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The laws ofConservation_of_massConservation_of_energy

IN CLOSED SYSTEM MATERIAL AND ENERGY CANNOT BE DESTROYED

->MATERIAL AND ENERGY ISSUES CANNOT BE SEPARATED

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Municipal solid waste in Finland 2002-2030 (Tpa)Source: Information 1975–2013 (Statistics Finland), Forecast 2015–2030 (FSWA)

Waste volume 1975 1,200,000 Tpa

Annual increase 1975–2015: n. 2.3 %

Forecast for annual increase 1.0 %Total waste amount 2013 was 98 million Tpa

Municipal waste 2015 was 2,7 million Tpa ~ 500 kg/inh.

Recycling 50 % 60 % 70%?

Waste export has increased more than expected

Municipal waste for export if recycling is not growing?

Information Forecast

CHP = district heat and electricity with over 90 % effeciency

WASTE IS A BIOFUEL

Public waste management companies

are pioneers in the climate change

prevention and circular economy

Waste treatment

centers are circular

economy platforms

98% of municipal

waste is utilised as

materials and energy

Textile is the only high value fraction

in mixed municipal waste

cewep.eu/informationWhy_waste_your_energy

Backround for textile recycling project

• Studies

• Finnish Environment Institute SYKE-TEXJÄTE” project

• Topinpuisto (Topi UrbanMine) Innovatiivinen kiertotalouspuisto – PDF - LSJH’s Circular Economy park in Turku area

• “Textile 2.0” textile recycling pilot -Learning by doing

• Download Green growth in Nordic regions: 50 ways to make it happen – Nordregio

• A common aim to get rid of uncontrolled exports of textile waste to third countries

• Public waste management companies interest for joined textile recycling

• A future EU-directive on the source sorting of textile waste

• 70,000 Tpa of (2,6% of MSW) textile waste in Finland and 350,000 Tpa of textile waste in the Nordic countries

• Finland is the leading country globally on forest industry and cellulose chemistry

• Collection ≠ recycling, recycling system is missing in Finland Telaketju cooperation

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”Rummage around ”

”Sewing Jam”

Financing

CoordinatingResearch

and Steering

The collecting, sorting

and recycle chain

for Textiles

Collection

Sorting

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Users/End

Products

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