VALIPAC

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VAL-I-PAC

• 10 years of sustainable development in
  recycling industrial packaging waste.
• Building products .

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The VAL-I-PAC system
annual report
Info B
Info A
Operators
Producers / Importers
opérateurs
opérateurs
incentives
packaged goods
Packaging waste
unpackers
Quantities packaging waste recycled / recovered
Info B
80
Quantity of packaging brought onto the market
Info A
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The 5 principles

• Free market orientation
• Limit added cost, Avoid extra administration
• Financial incentives to reach recycling targets
• Solidarity among participants
• Multi-material, multi-sectoral

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The 5 principles

• Free market orientation
• Unpackers work with waste operators of their
  choice
• Easy sorting rules for unpackers
• Waste operators settle financially with unpackers
• Waste operators inform VAL - I - PAC on
• volumes collected, recycled, recovered
• Unpackers entitled to incentives
• Reach Recycling targets via VAL - I - PAC
  incentives,
• Easy to calculate, based on facts
• Transparent system,
• Limit added cost
• Avoid extra administration
• Total Cost 17 /ton, Net added cost 8 /ton, less
  than 1 eurocent / kg
• Solidarity among participants
• Multi-material, multi-sectoral

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Key relationships

• 8200 customers (83 of potential) declare
• 670.000 tons of one-way packaging
• 2.180 000 tons of re-usable packaging
• Recycling incentives granted to 21.000 unpackers
• Wood
• Plastics
• Selective containers for industrial packaging
  waste
• Collection bag for plastics
• Cooperation with 240 waste operators
• Information on quantities recycled/recovered
• Information on unpackers entitled to incentives
• Broad representation of all private parties
  involved in the Board
• Reporting to I.R.P.C. twice/yr

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Recycling and recovery
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VAL - I - PAC Evolution of Results 2000 - 2007
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Weight of sectors in turnover
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One-way Packaging materials mix
Belgian Industry
Building Products
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Building Products vs total industry one-way and
re-usable
Industry
Building prod.
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Re-usable packaging is less popular in building
sector ! 000 ton
Belgian Industry
Building
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Clean Site System

• VAL - I - PAC finances,
• support from Life program E.U.
• 79 producers of building materials contributed
  40 of expenses, first 3 years
• Constructor purchases plastic bags at 1 /piece
• Has the right to drop this bag filled with
  plastic packaging waste from building sites in
  specific container, next to shop of Fema
  merchant.
• Fema merchant
• Organises transport and recycling of plastic
  packaging waste with operator.
• Income to cover his Costs via
• margin on sale of the bags to constructor
• value of the plastic
• VAL - I - PAC incentives
• fee for reporting name of constructor and nr of
  the bag purchased

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Participation of the Fema merchants
In total, 186 points of sale are participating to
the Clean Site project.
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Recently Recruited by
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The European directive

• 94/62/CE revised into 2004/12/CE
• New Targets
• To be converted in local legislation, (dec. 31
  2008 )
• Overall Recovery minimum 60
• Overall Recycling 55 to 80
• Recycling per material
• Paper Board, (Glass) 60
• Metals 50
• Plastics 22,5
• Wood 15