Quantity vs Quality Getting the Balance Right

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Quantity vs QualityGetting the Balance Right

• Jennie Price
• Chief Executive

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Quantity Drivers

• Landfill Directive targets on biodegradable
  municipal waste
• Statutory recycling targets for local authorities
• A well-developed paper recycling sector
• Existing recycling practices

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Quality Drivers

• Customer demand
• High value products
• Health and safety requirements
• Industry standards including EN 643

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The Dilemma

• Increasing recycling
• vs
• Increasing quality of supply to the reprocessors

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The Standard is

• A tool for buyers and sellers of waste paper
• Potentially influential
• European wide

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The Standard is not

• Legally binding (unless made so by a contractual
  obligation
• Effective on existing contracts (unless both
  parties agree)
• Detailed as to permissible methods of collection

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What the Standard says

• Recovered paper from refuse sorting stations is
  not suitable for use in the paper industry
• But what does that mean?

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A Matter of Interpretation

• Some suggestions for local authorities
• Talk to/negotiate with your reprocessors
• If possible, do so before reaching final
  decisions on collection methods
• Talk short term and long term
• If asked to renegotiate existing contracts, take
  advice

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A Matter of Interpretation

• Some suggestions for reprocessors
• Be clear and consistent about your requirements
• Be realistic about the effect of your
  requirements on price and availability
• Respect your obligations under existing contracts