Zero Waste Plans Richard Anthony Zero Waste San Diego San Diego February 24, 2010.

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Zero Waste Plans Richard Anthony Zero Waste San Diego San Diego February 24 , 2010

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Zero Waste Plans

Richard Anthony

Zero Waste San Diego

San Diego February 24 , 2010

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• A Policy, Path, Direction• A Target, Process, Way Of

Thinking• Recognizes 71 Tons “Upstream”

For Every Ton MSW

• From Waste Mgt. To Resource Mgt.

• Stops Climate Change as landfills are one of largest sources of Greenhouse Gases

Zero WasteZero Waste

WastebergWasteberg

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The only peer-reviewed internationally accepted definition of Zero Waste is that adopted by the Zero Waste International Alliance:

“Zero Waste is a goal that is ethical, economical, efficient and visionary, to guide people in changing their lifestyles and practices to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all discarded materials are designed to become resources for others to use.

Zero Waste means designing and managing products and processes to systematically avoid and eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste and materials, conserve and recover all resources, and not burn or bury them.

Implementing Zero Waste will eliminate all discharges to land, water or air that are a threat to planetary, human, animal or plant health.”

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  “If a product can't be reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned, or removed from production.”*

 

*Martin Bourque, Berkeley Ecology Center, GRRN Zero Waste Conference, NY, April 2005.

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UpstreamUpstream• Reduce volume and toxicity Reduce volume and toxicity of raw

materials and manufactured products• Rethink and redesign products and redesign products and

processesprocesses to reduce wasting and planned obsolescence

• Embodied energy savings energy savings (upstream) are are greater than energy producedgreater than energy produced

• Businesses can adopt policies and make policies and make vendors complyvendors comply

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DownstreamDownstream

• Ensure the highest and best use highest and best use of products and packaging at the end of their useful lives– ReuseReuse products and packaging, retaining their

original form and functionoriginal form and function– Recycle materials that are not reduced or

reused– Compost materials that are not recycled

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ZW Business PrinciplesZW Business Principles1. Commitment to the

triple bottom line

2. Use Precautionary Principle

3. Zero Waste to landfill or incineration

4. Responsibility: Take back products & packaging

5. Buy reused, recycled & compost

6. Prevention pollution and reduce waste

7. Highest and best use8. Use economic

incentives for customers, workers and suppliers

9. Products or services sold are not wasteful or toxic

10.Use non-toxic production, reuse and recycling processes

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Reuse, Recycling, & Composting Reduce Resource Use & Greenhouse Gas Production

Aluminum Steel Paper Glass

Energy Use

90-97% 47-74% 23-74% 4-32%

Air Pollution

95% 85% 74% 20%

Water Pollution

97% 76% 35%

Mining Wastes

97% 80%

Water Use

40% 58% 50%

[1] R. Letcher and M. Shiel, “Source separation and Citizen Recycling”, in William Robinson, ed., The Solid Waste Handbook, New York, 1986.

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All discards can be sorted into 12 Market Categories…

1. REUSABLE Appliances Durable Plastic Items Textiles Mattresses & Furniture

Composite C & D Books & Catalogues Other Repairables

2. PAPER Cardboard White Ledger Newsprint Magazines / Catalogs Other Office Paper Paperboard Other / Composite Paper

3. PLANT DEBRIS

Leaves & Grass Prunings Branches & Stumps

4. PUTRESCIBLES Food Waste

Fish and Meat Waste Sewage Sludge

5. WOOD Untreated Wood

Treated Wood

6. CERAMICSConcrete Asphalt Paving

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7. SOILSGypsum Board Fines

8. METALS Auto Bodies

Aluminum Cans Steel Cans Ferrous Metals Non-Ferrous

9. GLASS Clear Glass Containers Mixed Glass Containers Clear Glass Green Glass Mixed Glass Brown Glass Window Glass Other Glass

10. TEXTILESPoly Fibers Cotton and Wool

11. POLYMERS#1 PET #2 HDPE#3 - 7Tires Asphalt Roofing

12. CHEMICALSUsed Motor Oil PaintHousehold Hazardous Products

MedicineSharpsBatteries and Lights

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Discards Sorted into the 12 Market Categories

Note: Half of the Pie is Organic Material Suitable for Composting

Metals6% Glass

3%

Paper37%

Wood4%

Soils1%

Textiles4%

Ceramics2%

Chemicals 0%

Reuse3%

Polymers11%

Putrescibles19%

Plant Debris10%

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Revenue and Job Potential from 1,000,000 Tons of Discarded MaterialClean DozenSM

Master CategoriesJobs Tons

per YearMarket Price

$/T (est.)Total Value of Discards

($)

1. Reuse 350 28,000 550 15,400,000

2. Paper 65 370,000 20 7,400,000

3. Plant Trimmings 30 100,000 7 700,000

4. Putrescibles 85 190,000 7 1,330,000

5. Wood 24 40,000 4 320,000

6. Ceramics 7 20,000 4 80,000

7. Soils 20 10,000 7 70,000

8. Metals 35 60,000 40 2,400,000

9. Glass 75 30,000 10 300,000

10. Polymers 1,020 110,000 100 11,000,000

11. Textiles 340 40,000 200 8,000,000

12. Chemicals 4 2,000 15 30,000

Total 2,055 1,000,000 47,030,000

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Setting Up Zero Waste Programs

1. Get top management on board

2. Examine the current system of discard management

3. Get everyone involved in making the plan

4. Let every one know what you are doing

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1. Adopt ZWIA Zero Waste definition

2. Establish benchmarks and a timeline to meet goals for measuring success and monitoring accomplishments – A key part of the planning process is

establishing goals and targets that start with the Board and top management

3. Engage the whole company. – Don’t leave Zero Waste to “waste experts.” – Involve all agencies and departments,

existing vendors and resource markets.– Challenge all to pursue Zero Waste at work.

.

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4. Use fees levied on tons of waste hauled or landfilled to fund programs

5. Educate employees and vendors about the 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. Perform Zero Waste Assessments – ID amount and type of discards produced – Collect Data by generation points– Use as baseline to ID recovery and employment

opportunities, cost savings, and to measure success of reduction and recovery programs

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7. Residual Separation & Research Facilities – Residuals need to be made very visible to ID– Bad industrial design– Bad purchasing habits– Change through dedicated research and education

8. Develop New Rules and Incentives to move towards Zero Waste– 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. Enact Extended Producer Responsibility– Businesses take back products and packaging at no cost – Advocate for state and national EPR policies– redesign products to be less toxic and easier to reuse and recycle

 

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10. Support Zero Waste Procurement– 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 as well

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11. Expand Zero Waste Infrastructure– Develop locations for reuse, recycling and composting,

including Resource Recovery Parks.

12. Challenge Employees to lead the way to Zero Waste

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