100 KG LESS WASTE

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• 100 KG LESS WASTE
• AS A LOCAL
• POLICY TARGET
• Jean-Pierre HANNEQUART
• Seville, 21 march
  2007

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THE AALBORG COMMITMENTS We are committed to
the prudent and efficient use of resources
and sustainable consumption and
production. We will therefore work, throughout
our community, to 1. avoid and reduce waste,
and increase re-use and recycling. 2. manage and
treat waste in accordance with best practice
standards 3.avoid unnecessary energy
consumption, and improve end-use energy
efficiency. 4.undertake sustainable
procurement. 5.actively promote sustainable
production and consumption, in particular of
eco-labelled, organic, ethical and fair trade
products.
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REUSE REPAIR
RETHINK REDESIGN
REDUCE

Wastes
Resources
Products
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100 kg less waste per inhabitant

• Why avoid, reduce and reuse?
• Why aim for kg less waste per inhabitant and
  per year?
• How to do 100 kg less?
• A European campaign why and how?
• How to join up and join in.

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100 kg less waste per inhabitant

• Why avoid, reduce and reuse?
• Why aim for kg less waste per inhabitant and
  per year?
• How to do 100 kg less?
• A European campaign why and how?
• How to join up and join in.

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Why avoid, reduce and reuse?

• Reduce carbon footprint
• Lighten the ecological rucksack
• Lessen climate change
• Reduce socio-economic inequality
• Develop sustainable jobs
• Diminish costs
• Integrate European legal constraints

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Reduce carbon Footprint
50,000 kg
European citizen 2-3 planets
16,000 kg
3,500 kg
600 kg
Municipal waste
Industrial waste
Imported products andmaterial
Resources
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Lighten the ecological rucksack

• Products - Resources
• 1kg iron 2.3 kg
• 1kg zinc 8 kg
• 1kg copper 15 kg

• Toothbrush 1.5kg
• Mobile phone 75 kg
• Laptop 1,500 kg

5g gold ring 3,000 kg
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Lessen climate change

• Product consumption
• (production-transport)
• 50 CO² emissions
• 1 kg paper 1,9 kg CO²
• 1 kg of meat from New Zealand 7,5 kg CO²
• 1 bottle of American wine by plane 5 kg CO²
• (5kg more than for a bottle of French wine)
  

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Reduce socio-economic inequalities
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Develop sustainable jobs
prevention
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Diminish costs
Vienna
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Integrate European legal constraints
Recycling Reuse Reduction Destruction

The hierarchy
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Integrate European legal contraints

• COM(2005)667
• THE M.S
• Must adopt prevention programmes
• At the most appropriate geographical level
• Including objectives (qualitative and
  quantitative) and guidelines for follow-through

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100 kg less waste per inhabitant

• Why avoid, reduce and reuse?
• Why aim for kg less waste per inhabitant and
  per year?
• How to do 100 kg less?
• A European campaign why and how?
• How to join up and join in.

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Why aim for fewer kg of municipal waste per
inhab./year?

• To translate prevention into a significant result
• To have a quantitative European reference
• To have a target that is flexible for the
  differing local realities
• To promote an action field with several sections

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Prevention can be translated into a significant
quantative result

• Many local micro-projects lead to significant
  reductions of many kg of waste
• Weight is not the be-all and end-all but
• quantity of Kg/inhab/year of municipal waste
• European guideline for sustainable development

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A quantitative European reference point

• Amount of municipal waste in KG/INHAB/year
• (2004) (EUROSTAT)
  
• UE-15 580
• UE-25 540

The European average currently stands at
around 600KG/HAB/AN
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A quantitative European reference
The amount of waste managed by the town councils
is between 250 and 800 KG/INHAB/AN (2005
Eurostat)
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A flexible concept

• Municipal Waste
• Household rubbish
• other household waste
• similar waste
• (between 5 et 100)
• What local authorities consider to be waste
  flows to manage

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A field of action with many sectors

• Households (door-to-door, in local skips, at
  rubbish dumps)
• Schools
• Offices
• Businesses
• Hospitals
• Public parks
• Administrations

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100 kg less waste per inhabitant

• Why avoid, reduce and reuse?
• Why aim for kg less waste per inhabitant and
  per year?
• How to do 100 kg less?
• A European campaign why and how?
• How to join up and join in.

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How to do 100 kg less?

• A theoretical amount
• Several major preventative actions and four waste
  flows

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A theoretical amount

• The European average of 600 kg/inhab/year of
  municipal waste can be broken down as follows
• - ORGANIC (36) 220
• - PAPER-Not packaging (16) 100
• - PACKAGING (25) 150
• - BULKY-DIVERSE (22) 130
  

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Reduce organic waste

• Promote composting at source
• Fight food waste
• Choose reusable nappies

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Promote composting at source
Promote composting - individual
- neighbourhood
- green areas

If green municipal waste (kitchen, private
gardens, parks) comes to 180 kg/inhab/year, we
can envisage composting between 20 and 35kg. That
is to say, an average European target of 27 kg
less/inhab/year
By promoting individual composting, Landkreis
Scheinfurt (G) estimates that it has reduced its
waste by 50kg/inhab/year, whereas the Asti
province (I) estimates 30 kg/inhab/yr
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Fight food waste
FOOD 20-30 of total CO2 emissions

Vienna estimates the potential for reduction of
shop food waste at nearly 40kg/shop/day. Brussels
has measured nearly 15kg/inhab/yr wasted by
households and nearly 6kg/child/year for schools
Based on household and shop food waste of 30
kg/inhab/yr, we can realistically target 8 Kg
less/inhab/year
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Choose reusable nappies
The amount of nappies used is increasing all the
time and has been evaluated at nearly 10
kg/hab/an in Wallonia (B). They make up about 6
of household waste in Milton-Keynes (UK)
The potential European average is realistically
2 Kg less/inhab/year
By promoting reusable nappies, Landkreis
Schweinfurt (G) reduced waste by 9.4kg to
7kg/inhab/year
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Reduce paper waste

• Oppose free newpapers and/or flyers
• Dematerialise schools and offices

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Oppose free newspapers and/or flyers
STICKERS AGAINST FREE NEWSPAPERS AND/OR FLYERS
Based on 20Kg/inhab/year, We can aim for 5 kg
less/inhab/year
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Dematerialise offices and schools
Lead campaigns against paper waste in offices and
schools

• Reduce paper through basic awareness-raising

The Brussels Region calculated that papers used
came to nearly 150kg/worker/year and
7kg/child/yearWe can realistically aim for
10kg less/inhab/year
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Reduce packaging waste

• Choose bottles that can be returned
• Promote tap water
• Develop reusable bags
• Fight over-packaging

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Choose bottles that can be returned
Fight one way packaging
Based on an average yearly consumption per person
of 65 bottles of wine (weighing 400g) and 100
bottles of beer and other drinks (weighing 100g),
the amount of waste, if it is all one way is 36
kg/inhab/year. By returning a third for reuse,
we can reach 12 kg less/inhab/year
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Consumption of bottled water

(litres/inhab/2004)
Promote tap water
The consumption of bottled water is going up all
the time it reached 184 litres/inhab in 2004
in Italy
Italy 184 Belgium
148 France 141 Spain
137 Germany 125 Cyprus
92 Czech Rep. 87 Austria
82 Portugal 80
Based on a consumption of 8kg/inhab/yr (200
bottles x 40g), we can aim for 2 kg
less/inhab/year
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Develop reusable bags
In France, it is estimated that the production
of disposable plastic bags has reached 17
billion, which is 2kg/inhab/year
Potential reduction is at least 1 kg/inhab/year
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Amount put on the market
(kg/inhab/2000)
Fight over-packaging
At Charleroi(B) 13 have changed their buying
habits based on eco-labelling
France 206 Italy 198 Netherlands
193 Luxembourg 190 Germany 187 UK
167 Average 161 Denmark 159 Spain
157 Belgium 144 Austria 131 Sweden
115 Finland 87
The distribution sector in the UK has adopted
targets for reducing waste by 5 to 10

Based on 100kg/inhab/year, we can aim for 10
kg less/inhab/year
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Reduce bulky and other waste

• Promote reuse of clothes
• Promote reuse of furniture, electric and
  electronic equipment, toys and other bulky items
• Fight unnecessary purchasing

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Promote reuse of clothes

60 of clothes should be reusable, which out of
8kg/inhab/year is 5 kg less/inhab/year
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Promote reuse of furniture, EEE, toys and other
bulky items
An ACR investigation revealed 20 to 90
kg/inhab/year of bulky waste collected by town
councils
Out of 90kg/inhab/year we can aim, through
repair-reuse and second-hand sales, for 15 kg
less/inhab/year
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Fight excess purchasing
Nuremberg (G) 99 WASTE-FREE PRESENTS
There are at least 12 kg/inhab/year of excess
purchases we will aim for 3 kg LESS
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How to do 100 kg less?

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  Amount Potential
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  in Kg/inhab/year reduction
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• Organic 220 40
• Compostable greenery 180 30
• Food waste 30 8
• Nappies 10 2
• Papers (not packaging) 100 15
• Free printed press and flyers 20 5
• Office papers and others 80 10
• Packaging 150 25
• Bottles 35 12
• Bottled water 6 2
• Plastic shopping bags 2 1
• Other excess packaging 107 10
• Bulky and other 130 20

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100 kg less waste per inhabitant

• Why avoid, reduce and reuse?
• Why aim for kg less waste per inhabitant and
  per year?
• How to do 100 kg less?
• A European campaign why and how?
• How to join up and join in.

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A European campaign?

• 4 AXES
• Exchange of information and experience between
  local actors
• Update guidelines
• Work in partnership
• Encourage a European prevention week

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A European campaign?
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AXE 1EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND EXPERIENCES
BETWEEN LOCAL ACTORS

• No two towns or regions are identical, but all
  have to face similar challenges
• Preventative action is fairly complex
• The international exchange of information and
  experiences enables everyone to do more, better.
• Parallel initiatives increase efficiency

• European campaign
• Adopt one slogan for everyone
• Carry out actions in parallel
• Communicate via a shared web site
• Make a list of training needs
• Share ideas and even communication
  material

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AXE 2 UPDATE GUIDELINES

• The waste prevention policy needs quantitative
  targets and guidelines for follow-through
• Towns and regions have an essential role to play
  in fixing similar objectives and guidelines
• The differing situations do not prevent the
  possibility of jointly researching technical
  tools for the main municipal waste flows and for
  the main potential preventative action categories

-gt European campaign ACR working
groups/ clusters for prevention guidelines
- biodegradable waste - paper
waste - packaging waste - bulky
waste
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AXE 3WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP

• Twinning is particularly appropriate for local
  prevention policies
• There is a need for partnership in north-south
  relations ( or decentralised cooperation) and
  similarly between new and old EU Members States.

• European campaign
• Coordination via ACR Secretariat of several
  bilateral international agreements between towns
  and regions on waste prevention

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AXE 4ENCOURAGE A EUROPEAN PREVENTION WEEK

• Reinforcing the visibility of preventative
  actions will help reproduce them and to increase
  their effectiveness
• Adopting time period in which to raise awareness
  amongst European citizens will help encourage
  multiple initiatives

• European campaign
• ACR lobbying for official adoption of a
  European prevention week

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100 kg less waste per inhabitant

• Why avoid, reduce and reuse?
• Why aim for kg less waste per inhabitant and
  per year?
• How to do 100 kg less?
• A European campaign why and how?
• How to join up and join in.

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HOW TO JOIN UP AND JOIN IN?

• By signing the Charter 100kg less waste per
  inhabitant
• and by actions
• - Either as a relay-actor
• - Or as ACR actor-member

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As a relay-actor
Commitments

• Keep waste prevention an important, quantitative
  political priority
• Carry out many actions in 2008-2009 under the
  banner European campaign for waste reduction
• Create an internet link with ACR website

Advantages

• Increase efficiency by accumulation action
  weight
• Increase political visibility (cfr internet
  links)
• Receive ACR-news-prevention-ACR (via e-mail)
• Receive (at reduced prices) documents and
  campaign material

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As ACR actor-member
Commitments

• As for relay-actors
• Transmit data and other information to ACR
  secretariat (to add to private website)
• Participate in one of the Clusters for
  prevention guidelines or contribute in 2008-2009
  to at least one international conference on
  prevention and/or international partnerships on
  preventative actions
• Participate in European prevention week

Advantages

• Access to technical area of ACR website
• Share expertise on guidelines
• Possibility of contributing in international
  settings
• Possibility of helping the ACR secretariat
  for action partnerships
• Participation in lobbying on European policy
  and political visibility (internet links) ,
  news-prevention-ACR (via e-mail), documents
  and campaign material (at reduced prices)

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Pour d'autres aspects Jean-Pierre
HANNEQUARTjph_at_ibgebim.be

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