Circular Economy Green Public Procurement...Life + project REBUS: 30 Pilots, UK/NL/BE - Electronics...

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Circular Economy

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Green Public Procurement =

Cuno van Geet Senior policy advisor Sustainability

7 May 2014, Bern EU Advisory Group GPP

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Society - A sense of urgency for resources - A sense of ‘need’ to change - New business models in society Business - New green business - Resource security & cost! Procurement - New alliances/relations with the market - Professionalism, functional - Cost!

WHY?

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Use Dispose Buy

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Use

6R

Buy

Reuse, Repair Refurbish, Remanufacture Retrieve, Recycle, etc.

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Existing partly ‘circular’ technologies

GRO Holland uses coffee residue for mushrooms for vegetarian kroketten

Waternet extracts phospate from sludge for agriculture

Flexible Town Hall developed by Turn Too, BAM Resource passport , for 20 years

70-90% full recycling of carpet tiles by

Interface: Recycling of old carpet tiles, but also reuse of old fishing nets in the sea

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Life + project REBUS: 30 Pilots, UK/NL/BE - Electronics / IT - Textiles

- Furniture / Floor coverings / Lighting (Office interior design) - Construction

UNEP SPPP, working group 3A: Product service Systems Green deal circular procurement NL (25 partners, 50 pilots starting in 2014)

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2. Procurement, production a. Product service systems (pilots) b. Rethink Ecodesign (long term)

3. Use Reuse, Re-organise Collecting, sorting Enabling steps in circularity

1. Waste contracts Recycling Market opportunity

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Existing case: Waste contracts Confidential documents

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Confidential documents

Total costs of disposal confidential documents: - € 750.000 Change: Selling waste - High quality 100% clean white paper

= raw material for new white paper

- guarantee of confidential disposal Total income on disposal of white paper: + € 750.000

Earnings: + € 1.500.000

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New pilots: 1. Textiles

Environmental Policy priority

High environmental impact! Cotton, water use, chemicals, Chain management programme

New:

- Insert SPP as a tool for chain management

- Ministry of Defense, category management

High interest by e.g.: Police uniforms, Customs, Rail Road company, building contractors

KLM experience

Public procurement:

- Good quality material (many of the same)

- Large quantities innovation

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Circular Procurement of Textiles

Market opportunities for pilots:

1. Recycling, waste contracts: Make fibers out of clothing, requires upgrading quality of collection and sorting:

2. Procurement, ± 20-25% recycled fibers

Long term strategy: Design

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ICT hardware

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ICT hardware Engagement - Central Government (20-40.000 ? PC’s/year) – in progress - Intention: Rotterdam city, National road company

Pilot 3: Central Government - Research on alternatives for shredder (E-recovery, IT-

donations, techreturns, Give IT now, Siso, Close the Gap, Take back systems (Dell, HP), Fujitsu trade-in)

- Research on datasecurity 4 levels of confidentiality, 95% is of lower levels, Blancco software for erasing

- Data erasing € 36/PC; Market € 7/PC (or even € 0) - Reuse (market place)

Market opportunity: recycling Long term opportunity: Ecodesign & rethinking ICT

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Construction

Engagement

- Courthouse Amsterdam Renovation (follow up flexible town hall Brummen)

- Rotterdam, Amersfoort, Rijkswaterstaat (Infrastructure)

Market opportunity:

- Leasing the resources of office buildings / resource passport

- Servicizing streets

Long term project:

- Circularity of concrete in Multi-waterworks (25 years)

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Office interior design Furniture Floor Coverings

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Engagement: - Pilot Traffic control center - In preparation: Amsterdam (intention), Province of Noord

Brabant, Amersfoort

Traffic Center National railroad company - Tender preparation:

- Floor coverings: 2 most advanced companies - Furniture: 2 companies - 3 dialogue rounds

Next pilots: - 2000 working areas Amsterdam - long term: PPP Buildings + office interior design

Office: Furniture + floor coverings

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Example of discussion, technical specifications Furniture/Floor coverings 1. Two options: circular product vs non-circular product, TCO 2. Service model: tenderer can suggest an appropriate payment

model (e.g. 10 years) e.g. lump sum or annual or monthly instalments

Content in discussion: - Design 1: Recycled materials, biobased resources, critical materials

(?), no harmful substances - Design: describe how 6R’s are taken into account in design - Production / CO2 / ask for EPD: EPD’s heavy instrument in suppliers

do not have one. CO2 not so important in for this product. - Circularity: describe reuse/remanufacture/recylcing options, how do

you retain control on in the chain is managed (also 3rd parties) - Company strategy on circularity - User aspects: Flexibility (e.g. colour), guarantee, quality, prolonging

user period, unique selling points for your product

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ICT hardware

Research for alternatives (nov 2013-jun 2014) - 4 levels of confidentiality - Political sensitivity - 95% is of lower levels, Blancco software for erasing - Data erasing € 36/PC; Market € 7/PC (or even € 0) - Reuse (market place)

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Next steps: - Creative market meeting - Engagement of pilots - Ecodesign

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New developments

- Emerging new markets for recycling

- Fist steps in Product Service Systems

- High interest in green business models, also much confusion

- Many bottom-up new experiences

- Relationships are or should be changing

- Changes in processes and organisation rather than technology

- Innovation in own management

- Ecodesign still the biggest challenge

First lessons

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- Join UNEP SPP working group 3A: cuno.van.geet@rws.nl ; farid.yaker@unep.org

- Ecoprocura workshop (parallel session) 25th of September 2015

- Submit good cases and exchange experiences

- Express intention for cooperation in EU projects, regional cooperation

Options

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