Jean-Jacques Dohogne
Waste Prevention Benchmarks
ISWA Beacon Conference on Waste Prevention and Recycling, May 20-21, Leeuwarden, the
Netherlands
ACR+
Waste prevention
Benchmarks
Jean-Jacques Dohogne – ACR+
ISWA Beacon Conference 20-21 May 2010, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
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Today
EU Legislation is clear about it!
Benchmarking?
ACR+ ‘-100 kg benchmark’!
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Waste prevention benckmarks
Legislative provisions
Strict avoidance
Waste prevention
Waste minimisation
A labelsReduction at source
More efficient
Less efficient
Reuse
Prepare for reuse
Recycling
Incineration + energy rec.
Lanfilling
Waste hierarchy?
B
C
D
E
Legislative provisions
Art.29 of ‘New Waste Framework Directive’
3 Member States shall determine
appropriate qualitative and quantitative
benchmarks for waste prevention measures
adopted in order to monitor & assess progress
of the measures and... may determine specific
qualitative or quantitative targets and
indicators.
“Systematic research into the waste
prevention activity performances and the
underlying processess and methods of one or
more leading reference bodies in a certain
field, and the comparison of one‟s own
performance and operating methods with these
„best practices’, with the goal of locating and
improving one’s own performance”
Benchmarking?
To have a quantitative European reference
Transfer successful know-how, concepts
and instruments
Compare cities and regions programmes,
including quantitative data
A flexible measuring tool taking into
account differing realities
Focuses on continual improvement.
Benchmarking?
ACR+ -100 kg benchmark
Waste generation EU 15 in kg/inh/y
600 kg/inh/y 500 kg/inh/y
Waste generation EU 15 in kg/inh/y
(with prevention)
-100 kg or -15%
Waste generation
(kg/inh./y)
Potential waste
quantitative benchmark
(kg/inh./y)
All Waste 600 100
Bio-waste 220 40
Paper waste 100 15
Packaging waste 150 25
Bulky & other waste 130 20
ACR+ -100 kg benchmark
Per waste stream
Bio-waste generation(kg/inh./y)
Potential bio-waste
quantitative benchmark(kg/inh./y)
1 Bio-waste 220 40
Green scaping90 10
Smart gardening
Smart food consumption 30 10
Home, community & on-site composting
100 20
ACR+ -100 kg benchmark
Bio-waste, best practices
Case 1: Meadow areas – UK (Scotland)
Country RA/LA Scale Scope Results
UK (Scotland)
Chester-le-Street
Pilot (parks)
Green waste
Frequency of cuttings from every 10 days to 1-3 times per year and saving time and costs
Bio-waste, best practices
ACR+ -100 kg benchmark
EU Benchmark- 10 (of 90) kg
Case 17: Home composting in Asti
Country RA/LA Scale Scope Results
Italy Asti province
Roll out (14.000 composters)
Bio-waste
85.71 kg/inh/y diverted
EU Benchmark- 20 (of 100) kg
Bio-waste generated
220 kg/inh/y
Decentralised composting
Greenscaping & smart food consumption
Centralised composting
Bio-waste, best practices
ACR+ -100 kg benchmark
A+(+)
B
D
Incineration
Paper waste generation(kg/inh./y)
Potential paper waste quantitative benckmark(kg/inh./y)
Paper Waste 100 15
Reducing unwanted andunaddressed mail
15 4
Encouragingdematerialisation through ICT
75 9
Reducing kitchen, tissueand towel paper
10 2
Paper waste, best practices
ACR+ -100 kg benchmark
Packaging waste
generation(kg/inh./y)
Potential packaging
waste quantitative benckmark(kg/inh./y)
Packaging Waste 150 25
Encourage refillable/returnable bottles
35 12
Promoting tap water 6 2
Encouraging reusable bags 2 1
Fighting excess packaging 107 10
Packaging waste, best practices
ACR+ -100 kg benchmark
Get rid of
one way
packaging
Bulky waste generation(kg/inh./y)
Potential bulky waste quantitative benckmark(kg/inh./y)
Bulky waste 52 12
Promote textiles waste prevention
15 4
Promote furniture waste prevention
20 4
Promote WEEE prevention
17 4
Bulky waste, best practices
ACR+ -100 kg benchmark
Case 70: Reusing clothes through Roba-Amigo project
Country RA/LA Scale Scope Results
Spain Catalonia Pilot Textiles 40% reusable
Bulky waste, best practices
ACR+ -100 kg benchmark
Case 81: Repair centers in Vienna
Country RA/LA Scale Scope Results
Austria Vienna Roll out WEEE 25% of WEEE diverted
EU Benchmark- 4 (of 15) kg
EU Benchmark- 4 (of 17) kg
WEEE generated
17 kg/inh/y
Prepare for reuse
Prevention
Recycled
13 kg/inh/y
WEEE waste, best practices
ACR+ -100 kg benchmark
A+(+)
A
C-E
Shipment
Art.29 of ‘New Waste Framework Directive’
1 Member States shall establish waste prevention programs not later than 12 december 2013.
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Chp 1: New legislative framework
Chp 2: Benchmarking principles
Chps 3 – 7:
Quantitative benchmarks : bio-waste, paper, packaging, bulky waste & others
90 concrete quantitative ‘best practices’ cases
Sensitizing for waste prevention
for EU citizens
to promote new waste prevention initiatives
& enhance the visibility & effectiveness of those initiatives
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