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Tracy Casavant, Light House Sustainable Building Centre Meg O’Shea, Strathcona Business Improvement Association
Zero Waste for Small Businesses 101
False Creek Flats Green Enterprise Initiative Re-visioning a Sustainable False Creek Flats
What is Zero Waste?
• No waste to landfill, incineration, or the environment
• Waste is a misplaced resource
Why Zero Waste for Business?
• Save $ and/or get more value
• Engage employees (often those ‘young ‘uns’)
• Impress your customers
• Future-proof your operations
But what about… • Lack of space? Frequent
pick-up, bin design • Lack of time? Minimal
requirement • Employee compliance?
Find a champion; clear messages ‘from the top’
• Multiple languages? Multi-lingual signs
Business Generates Significant ‘Waste’
To Landfill
ICI Other
Businesses generate more than
50% of waste in Metro
Vancouver
Compostable Organics 35.8%
Paper 14.5%
Plastics 15.7%
Building Material 6.1% Non-compostable organics 8.6%
Metals 3.5% Glass 1.6%
Bulky Objects 5.1%
Average ICI Waste Composition, Metro Vancouver 2013 Waste Composition Study
Moving Toward Zero Waste
Zero Waste Workshop June 25, 2014
Craig Shishido Solid Waste Services Metro Vancouver
GOAL 1
GOAL 2 Maximize reuse, recycling, and material recovery
Minimize waste genera7on
GOAL 3
GOAL 4
Recover energy from waste stream a1er recycling
Dispose of all remaining waste in landfill a1er material and energy recovery
Solid Waste Management Plan
Integrated Solid Waste and Resource Management Plan
§ 10% per capita waste reducEon by 2020
§ Increase regional diversion rate from 58% in 2012 to at least:
70% by 2015 80% by 2020
• At Regional Facilities • Surcharge added to tipping fee • Threshold limit
– Percentage of load – Presence of some items
• Visual inspection
How Bans Work How Bans Work?
• Workshop No. 1 (Feb) • Workshop No. 2 (April) • Workshop No. 3 (June) • Industry Meetings • Online survey series • Board report (September
2014)
2014 Consultation and Engagement
CONSULTATION FEEDBACK
• Strong individual support • Support for declining threshold – allows time to
adjust • Starting threshold at 50% too generous • Equity concerns with focusing on largest
producers • Minimize transition points to avoid confusion • Minimize phase-in period • Starting surcharge level at 50% minimizes
transition points and confusion and provides a strong incentive
Next Steps
Re
• Analyze the feedback from the consultaEon process • Recommended strategy to be presented to the Metro Vancouver Board in September • ConEnue with sector engagement projects and the development of resources • Develop an implementaEon strategy
The Zero Waste Challenge
§ Barrick participated in the SBIA Zero Waste Challenge in late 2011
§ The program was offered by the Strathcona Business Improvement Association (SBIA) in conjunction with Metro Vancouver
§ Waste streams participated in – Organics
– Soft plastics
The Zero Waste Challenge
§ Attended the 38th Annual RCBC Zero Waste Conference in May 2012 – Gained additional insight into community based waste
reduction – Trade show exhibitors had fantastic products and
knowledge of waste diversion – Many ideas and projects were shared with respect to
reusing recovered resources • SBIA has its own resource exchange
ImplementaEon tools
§ Recycling bins – Purchased 41 bins from Bush Systems (RCBC Zero
Waste Conference) – Color coded, custom signs and labels – Strategic placement throughout our facility
ImplementaEon tools
§ Signage – Custom signage from SBIA – Signage from Waste Management
(our waste provider) – Metro Vancouver’s website
Barrick’s Waste Streams
§ Prior to Zero Waste Challenge – Paper recycling – Mixed container recycling – Cardboard recycling – Hazardous waste – E-waste (arranged by SBIA) – Milk Cartons – Garbage
§ Post Zero Waste Challenge – Organic recycling – Soft plastics – Batteries – Filter paper and rubber gloves
Champions for Success
§ Program Champion – Owner, Senior Manager
§ Lab Disposal Champion – Ensuring bins are
strategically located – Emptying bins
§ Custodial Champion – Communication with
janitorial services
ImplementaEon Challenges
§ Buy-in from colleagues
§ Behavioral changes
§ Checking bins for proper waste disposal – One unclean item in mixed containers could
contaminate the entire bin – Organics was the biggest challenge
§ Educating colleagues – Did not provide enough training – Language barrier
§ Educating cleaning staff
PosiEve Results
§ Educating individuals on proper recycling as Metro Vancouver ramps up disposal bans
§ Doing our part to keep waste from the landfills and lowering greenhouse gases
§ Commercial services for waste disposal – Garbage pick up now bi-weekly – Now using a garbage bin half the size – Saving money
Find a pick-up / drop-off
• Food waste haulers (City of Vancouver) http://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/food-scraps-haulers.aspx
• Licensed solid waste & recycling facilities (Metro Vancouver) http://www.metrovancouver.org/services/permits/Permits%20%20Regulations/ActiveSolidWasteLicenceList.pdf
(Recycling Alternative is in the Flats and here today!)
Communicate with Staff / Customers
www.metrovancouver.org/services/solidwaste/Resources/Pages/default.aspx
Practice What You Preach Sustainable Purchasing
• Buy recyclable products • Buy products with recycled
content • Don’t buy what you don’t need • Enact a sustainable purchasing
policy
Next Sustainability at Work Course: Sustainable Purchasing September 2014!
Your Own Zero Waste Challenge Step 1: Baseline Analysis
1. Get buy-in from senior management 2. Contact waste auditor or review Waste Audit
Guide in Resources Package 3. Arrange timing and location details 4. Discuss number of streams 5. Arrange bins 6. Collect your baseline
Your Own Zero Waste Challenge
Step 2: Make a Zero Waste Plan
1. Identify streams and number of bins
2. Contract hauler(s) 3. Identify a workplace champion(s) 4. Inform staff 5. Locate bins
Your Own Zero Waste Challenge
Step 3: Implement
1. Start separating streams! 2. Monitor systems 3. Track diversion data 4. Motivate staff 5. Communicate success
Your Own Zero Waste Challenge
Step 4: Evaluate & Improve
• Track metrics, set goals • Look for challenges • Look for opportunities • Seek accountability • Look for partners in waste-as-
resource
Where are you at now?
• Waste audits and assessments: • Material streams, volumes, diversion • Service costs? Surcharges? Are you aware of all costs? Contracts? • Collection schedule and frequency? • Right sizing – are you getting what you need? • Explore additional services and options with your current hauler,
and others
• Procurement • Tackle your trash UPSTREAM before it comes through your door • Identify purchasing choices that will reduce your waste on site
Best Practices – Make Your Diversion Count
• Follow your trash DOWNSTREAM • What’s happening to your materials? Where are they going? • Markets and recovery rates? • Source Separation vs Single Streaming • Environmental impact of your service; carbon footprint; Climate
Smart
• Stand out from the crowd – innovate and lead the pack • Can you minimize your volumes on site? • Can you pool/share your collection with neighbours • On-site equipment and innovations to reduce and recover
BEFORE you need to remove your waste
Diversion beats Disposal
• Reduce your volumes • Consolidate your services • Collaborate where possible • Quality matters • RECOVERY is key
Resources Available to You We will email you the URL
• Zero Waste Challenge Instructions • Zero Waste Equipment & Providers • Waste Auditors & Waste Reuse Online Sourcing • Zero Waste Challenge Pilot Report • Waste Visual Assessment Guide • Waste Audit Guide And more!
Think Like an Ecosystem (Image: Casavant, 2000, Adapted from Pezzack, 1998
Phrase: Côté and Smolenaars, 1994)
Lost Material Lost
Material
Materials, Other Resources
Primary Consumer
Product Mfr.
Scavenger Disassembler
Primary Producer
Component Mfr.
Decomposer Recycler
Secondary Consumer Wholesale/ Dist.
Top Consumer Consumer
Extractor Raw Material
Supplier
Tertiary Consumer Retailer
Energy
Industrial symbiosis engages traditionally separate industries and other organizations in a network to foster innovative strategies for more sustainable resource use and long
-term culture change.
National Industrial Symbiosis Program (NISP), International Synergies Ltd.
From Zero Waste to Industrial Symbiosis
Identify mutually profitable transactions for ü innovative sourcing of
required inputs ü value added destinations
for non-product outputs ü Other business-to
-business collaboration Adapted from National Industrial Symbiosis Programme-UK
Metric Results Cost Savings to Business £156,082,258 Additional Sales for Business £176,097,919 Landfill Diversion (Tonnes) 7,022,384 CO2 Reduction (Tonnes) 6,038,059 Hazardous Waste Eliminated (Tonnes) 363,626 Water Savings (Tonnes) 9,569,738 Jobs Created 3683
NISP-UK Verified Outputs 2005 to 2010 From £27 M investment, NISP-UK achieved:
From Pathway to a Low Carbon Economy Report. 2005.
“...the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme has the maximum
possible score based on economic and environmental benefits amongst
120 policies from 23 countries” COWI Report, 2011
NISPs Worldwide Hungary
Romania
Poland Belgium
Brazil
Italy
Netherlands
Slovakia
UK
Finland
South Africa
China USA
Australia
Canada
Denmark
South Korea
Chile
Mexico
EU
EU
NISP-Canada Two Year Pilot • Lower Mainland +
4 regions • Understand
– Quantified benefits – Impact of Canadian
geography – Impact of > 10 sets
of environmental legislation
– Long-term financial model
© Light House Sustainable Building Centre 2014
Delivery Team
Phase 0 Program Development generously funded by
© Light House Sustainable Building Centre 2014
NISP-Canada
• Workshops across Lower Mainland (including False Creek Flats and Strathcona) starting Fall 2014
Thank you for your time!
Special acknowledgements: • Metro Vancouver, Barrick Gold, and Recycling Alternative
for sharing their knowledge and experience • Discovery Parks for the venue; • City of Vancouver and Vancouver Foundation for funding
this workshop; • One Earth & Ecotrust Canada, our partners on the broader
False Creek Flats Green Enterprise Initiative; and • City of Vancouver & Vancouver Foundation for funding this
workshop.
Tracy Casavant, Light House E: [email protected]
P: 604 677 3728
Meg O’Shea, Strathcona BIA E: [email protected]
P: 604 258 2727
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