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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GREENBLUE IOPP Atlanta / April 16, 2015 / NEXTPACK Moving Towards a Circular Economy: What does it mean and how does it relate to sustainable packaging NINA GOODRICH

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EXECUTIVE  DIRECTOR,  GREENBLUE  

 IOPP  Atlanta  /    April  16,  2015    /  NEXTPACK  

Moving  Towards  a  Circular  Economy:  What  does  it  mean  and  how  does  it  relate  to  sustainable  packaging  

NINA  GOODRICH  

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A  nonprofit  dedicated  to  researching  and  promoJng  the  principles  of  sustainable  materials  management.

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Sustainable  Materials  Management  

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The  Sustainable  Packaging  CoaliGon  

•  Membership  organizaJon  bringing  together  hundreds  of  companies  &  stakeholders  since  2004  

•  Working  together  to  broaden  the  understanding  of  packaging  sustainability  and  develop  meaningful  improvements  

•  Reports,  packaging  design  tools,  educaJonal  courses,  conferences,  and  consulJng  

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Why  Circular?  

take make waste

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“Companies  collecJvely  have  been  nibbling  at  the  edges  of  challenges  like  climate  change,  food  security,  ecosystems  preservaJon,  resource  efficiency  and  the  like.  Whether  and  how  they  take  on  the  big  problems  will  be  another  criJcal  story  to  watch.”    

State  of  Green    Business  2015  

“Recent  improvements  in  resource  efficiency,  although  welcome,  are  not  enough  to  break  the  link  between  economic  growth  and  environmental  decay.  As  a  result,  the  business  risks  of  unsustainable  natural  capital  consumpJon  are  increasing.”    

By  Joel  Makower  and  the  editors  of  GreenBiz.com  

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•  Corporate  investments  in  “material”  sustainability  are  value  enhancing  

•  Corporate  investments  in  immaterial  sustainability  are  not  value  enhancing  and  are  not  value  destroying  

•  Sustainability  AccounJng  Standard  Board  (SASB)  definiJons  were  used  to  determine  “material  sustainability  and  “immaterial  sustainability”  

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State  of  Sustainability  March  27,  2014  

SPC  Spring  Mee/ng.  Sea2le,  WA.  March  27,  2014.  

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What  are  some  of  the  key  drivers  and  challenges?  

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Planetary  Boundaries  

Steffen,  W.,  Richardson,  K.(2015).  Planetary  boundaries:  Guiding  human  development  on  a  changing  planet  Science,  347(6223).  

E/MSY  =  exJncJons  per  million  species-­‐  years    Biodiversity  Intactness  Index  (BII)    

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Resource  ConsumpGon  &  GDP  

“For  every  1%  increase  in  GDP,  resource  use  has  risen  0.4%”    

       (“The  Circular  Advantage.”  Accenture  analysis  based  on  data  from  SERI  and  Difrich  M.  2014.Global  Material  Flow  Database.  World  Bank  GDP  data,  

www.data.worldbank.org/)  

Commodity  prices  have  historically  been  inversely  related  to  growth,  but  this  relaJonship  changed  in  2000.    

(World  Bank  commodity  price  data)  

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What  is  SPC’s/GreenBlue’s  Role?    

Sustainable  Materials  Management  

   Influence  the  Debate     Enhance  Supply  Chain  

         CollaboraJon     Create  AcJon  

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What  are  some  of  the  key  drivers  and  challenges?  

“Our  Industry”  

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Key  Trends  and  Drivers  

   What  will  be  the  effect  of  low  fuel  prices            on  the  stability  of  the  recycle  markets?     What  will  be  the  unintended    

         consequences  of  dirty  MRF’s?     What  is  the  role  for    

       “Brand/Retailer  Regulators”?                        (Brands  selng  the  agenda)    

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The  Value  of  Waste  

SERDC  Reports:  •  Alabama  Department  of  Natural  

Resources  2012  study  on  the  net  loss  of  value  from  the  disposal  of  recyclable  materials  •  Value    193  Million  USD  •  Disposal  Cost      25  Million  USD  •  NET  Value  Loss      218  Million  USD  

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What  is  the  job  that  we  hire  material  recovery  to  do?  

How  Might  We  (HMW)     HMW  improve  package  design     HMW  improve  collecJon     HMW  encourage  consumer  parJcipaJon     HMW  improve  financial  incenJves  for    

         collecJon     HMW  insure  that  recycling  is  a  community    

         value  

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The  Importance  of  “Brand/Retailer  Regulators”  in  seZng  the  agenda  

   Recycle  Content  (Market  Pull)     Design  for  Recovery     Sustainability  IniJaJves     Consumer  Awareness  and  EducaJon     Selng  the  Best  PracJce  

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What  is  a  Circular  Economy?  A  circular  economy  is  an  industrial  system  that  is  restoraJve  or  regeneraJve  by  intenJon  and  design.  

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What  is  a  Circular  Economy?  A  circular  economy  is  an  industrial  system  that  is  restoraJve  or  regeneraJve  by  intenJon  and  design.  

McKinsey  and  Accenture    have  esJmated  this  to  be  a    trillion-­‐dollar  opportunity  

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Sustainable  Materials  Management    

         

+Technology  Enablers  +New  Business  Models  +Policy  Frameworks  +Financial  IncenJves  

Q:  How  Do  We  Get  There?  A:  CollaboraGon  

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design  evaluaJon  

guidance    for  recycling  

end-­‐of-­‐life  research  

material  science  

supply  chain  educaJon  

sourcing  

Lifecycle  Approach  

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The  How2Recycle  Label  Program  

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Examples  

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What’s  the  SPC  doing?  

   Advising  companies  on  recyclability  claims          through  our  How2Recycle  labeling  system  

   Establishing  the  definiGon  of  access-­‐to              recycling  through  stakeholder  engagement  

   Convening  funders  for  a  credible,  centralized            access-­‐to-­‐recycling  study  

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Defining  access-­‐to-­‐recycling  

   Which  types  of  access  count?  

   What  about  communiJes  with  mulJ-­‐family          housing?  

   What  about  communiJes  with  subscripJon          curbside  recycling  services?  

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QuanGty  

Amount  of  Material  Available  Ease  of  CollecJon  

Quality  

Purity     Uncontaminated  

       Material  Streams     Single  Materials  

Ease  of  Re-­‐Use     Diversified  opJons  for  

       re-­‐use     Durability  of  the  

       material  Lifecycle  length  

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Quality  and  QuanGty  High  PotenJal  Materials  

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Circular  Economy  New  Business  Models  Access  over  Ownership  Become  a  Service  Industry  by  Leasing  

•  Carpet  Leasing  (Desso)  •  LighJng  Leasing  (Philips)  •  Electric  Car  Bafery  Leasing  

(Renault)  

www.philips.com/sustainability  

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Designed  for  Circular  Use  •  WellThread  (Levi  Straus,  Dockers)  

Circular  Economy  New  Business  Models  

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Ownership  !  Access  CollaboraGve  ConsumpGon  

Botsman,  R.  and  Rogers,  R.  “Beyond  Zipcar:  Collabora/ve  Consump/on.”  Harvard  Business  Review.  October  2012.  

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Digital  •  Mobile,  Cloud  •  Track  and  Trace  •  Big  Data  Bio-­‐Based  (Carbohydrate  Economy)  •  Renewable  •  Carbon  Capture  Life  and  Material  Science  •  Recovery  Technologies  

Circular  Economy  Enabling  Technologies  

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Bio-­‐Based  Polymers  

  Sugar  Cane  to  PE  (Braskem)     Plant  Sugar  to  PLA  (NatureWorks)     Canola  to  PHA  (Meredian)     Eucalyptus  Trees  to  Film  (Innovia)     Sugars  &  non  food  plant  oils  to  PHA  (Metabolix)     Methane  to  PHA  (Mango  Materials,  Newlight)     Food  Waste  to  PHA  (Full  Cycle)     Biogas  to  LacJc  Acid  (Natureworks)  

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Bio-Based Polymers   Bio-Based Feedstocks

– Corn – Sugar Cane – Algea – Pulp – Food Waste – Methane

  Applications – Chemical Intermediates – Polymers

• Drop in • New materials • Blends

– Films • Food & Agriculture

– Foams –  Rigid Plastics

• Closures • Containers • Microbeads

  Compostable Applications   Recycle Applications

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Circular  Economy  Policy  Frameworks  

EU  Smart  RegulaGon  •  IncenJves:  Waste  ReducJon,  SeparaJon  and  CollecJon  •  Modernizing  Waste  Policy  •  IncenJves  for    Design  for  Reuse  and  Remanufacture  •  Chemicals    Policy  (Free  of  hazardous  and  problemaJc)  Increase  Recycling  Rates/Targets  •  Harmonizing  Categories  of  Materials  and  Metrics  •  Understanding  and  Measuring  Access  Finance  and  Risk  Management  Tools  •  Design  incenJves  for  longer  lasJng  products  •  Strong  Policy  Creates  a  Predictable  Environment  for  Investment    

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Circular  Economy  Financial  Frameworks  

•  Finance  and  Risk  Management  tools  and  Flexible  IncenJves  

•  Green  Bonds  •  Impact  Investors  (Returns  and  Impact)  •  Public-­‐Private  Partnerships  •  Eliminate  Environmentally  Harmful  

Subsidies  •  Feed-­‐in-­‐Tariffs  •  CreaJng  Markets  for  Secondary  Raw  

Materials    

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Project  MainStream  

Launched  by  The  Ellen  MacArthur  FoundaJon,  in  collaboraJon  with  the  World  Economic  Forum  and  McKinsey  &  Company.  

Goals:  Demonstrate  commitment  from  key  stakeholders,    Establish  proof  of  concept  of  the  economic  and  environmental  benefits  of  a  circular  economy,    Accelerate  the  transiJon  

3  new  projects  announced  January  23rd  2015  in  Davos  

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Project  MainStream  Eco-­‐Design  (starJng  with  paper)  The  eco-­‐design  project  aims  to  start  with  paper,  one  of  the  most  well-­‐recycled  products  in  the  world,  to  achieve  proof  of  concept  on  establishing  eco-­‐design  rules  with  approaches  that  can  be  replicated  in  other  industries.    

www.ellenmacarthurfounda/on.org/news/project-­‐mainstream-­‐launches-­‐three-­‐new-­‐programmes  

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Project  MainStream  1.Global  PlasJc  Packaging  Roadmap  

This  will  aim  to  close  the  gap  between  the  design  of  packaging  and  the  design  of  municipal  systems.  The  goal  is  to  create  an  authoritaJve  global  plasJc  packaging  roadmap  to  transiJon  to  effecJve  packaging  soluJons  based  on  re-­‐use  and  recycling  of  plasJcs  

www.ellenmacarthurfounda/on.org/news/project-­‐mainstream-­‐launches-­‐three-­‐new-­‐programmes  

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Project  MainStream  3.  Assef  Tracking  This  program  seeks  to  develop  a  design  and  implementaJon  toolkit  to  create  befer  decision  making  on  what  to  do  with  a  product  when  a  (first)  user  is  finished  with  it.    The  iniJal  focus  will  be  on  consumer  electronics  and  medical  equipment.  Globally,  consumer  electronics  and  household  appliances  with  a  cumulaJve  value  of  roughly  $390  billion  reach  end  of  life  each  year.    Asset  tracking  could  help  unlock  a  potenJal  value  of  about  $52  billion  annually  in  these  sectors  alone  through  more  reuse,  remanufacturing  and  recycling.  

www.ellenmacarthurfounda/on.org/news/project-­‐mainstream-­‐launches-­‐three-­‐new-­‐programmes  

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Why  Circular?  

   Economic  Opportunity  

   Resource  PreservaJon  

   RegeneraJve  Business  Models  

   Because  We  Must  

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Nina  Goodrich  [email protected]  

Thank  You!