Bringing nappies into the circular economyWorld Waste to Energy and Resources

Summit

Giovanni Teodorani Fabbri, GM FaterSMART

Founded in 1958 by AngeliniSince 1992, a joint-venture between Procter&Gamble and Angelini

1,600 employees 1,000 related employees Turnover: ca € 1.0 Bn 4,563,900,882 products per year 4% of turnover in R&D 5 facilities: Pescara, Campochiaro (Italy), Porto (Portugal),

Mohammidia (Morocco), Gebze (Turkey)

THE SIZE OF THE PRIZE

• 30,000,000 tons / year sent to landfill or incinerationglobally

• 8,500,000 t/y in EU

• 900,000 t/y in Italy

• More than 12,000,000 people in Italy have access toseparate AHP* waste collection (+1,000,000 vs. ya)

*Absorbent Hygiene Products (i.e. baby diapers, fem care, adult incontinence)

A TECHNOLOGY DESIGNED TO CLOSE THE LOOP

Diaper RECYCLING | Closing the loop

*Absorbent Hygiene Products(i.e. baby diapers, fem care, adult

incontinence)

Homes and institutions

Diaper waste

Waste collector

Waste operator

AHP* Recycling

R-Cellulose

R-Plastic

R-SupersorberNew

applications

IT IS LIVE!PLANT IN ITALY

100% RECYCLING OF USEDPRODUCT!THE ONLY TECHNOLOGY THAT RECOVERS ALL THE MAIN COMPONENTS

• LOCATION• Treviso, Northern Italy

• CAPACITY• 10,000 t/y of AHP

• COVERAGE• 1 million population served by segregateddiaper waste collection from households

Key Milestones:

2009- Start of Development2013- Pilot Plant 2015- Demo Plant operational 2017- Industrial scale in place & working

Sterilized plastics

Closed-Loop Applications

Domestic container for nappy waste

School desks

Upcycling

nappy RECYCLING | Up-cycling outcome: sterilized plastics

Sterilized cellulose

Upcycling

Paper products

Constructionmaterials

Viscose

nappy RECYCLING | Up-cycling outcome: sterilized cellulose

Sterilized SAP

Upcycling

Flood protection

Protection Against humidity for cables

Absorbent products

Source: Ambiente Italia ’Report on scenarios of the collection and recycling of absorbent hygienic products’ (2016)

CARBON FOOTPRINT ANALYSIS: NETHERLANDS

As usual scenario Recycling scenario

Kg CO2eq/ton produced by the collection 11 28

Kg CO2eq/ton produced by the process 565 209

Kg CO2eq/ton avoided -235 -399

341 -162

SAFETY CERTIFICATIONS BY INDIPENDENT 3RD PARTY

• Microbiological Sterilization efficacy

• Steam penetration in every part of

the diapers

• Degradation of any drug residualsboth from SRMs and wastewater,

even when spiked with x100

commonly found concentrations

WHAT’S NEXT: EMBRACED CONSORTIUM

• Call for proposal: H2020-BBI-JTI-2016• Topic: Valorisation of the organic content

of Municipal Solid Waste and contributing to the renewable circular economy

• Starting date: June 1st, 2017• Duration: 60 months

13 Partners7 EU Countries