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Development in waste management

Lessons learned in the Netherlands

Herman Huisman

ONEIA, Ontario, August 25th 2011

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Contents

• Dutch Performance in waste management• Elements of waste policy• Examples of progress made in last 20 years• From waste management to resource management• Outstanding Dutch suppliers• Netherlands Waste Management Partnership

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The Netherlands

16,5 million Inhabitants 7,2 million households12 provinces417 Municipalities60,4 million tons waste 9,2 million tons Household waste

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Waste management development stages and scale of government

Local issueMunicipal scale

Provincial scaleconcessions

Inter-RegionalPlanning, WMC

EU Internationalmarket

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ScaleOf government

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Recovery and disposal rates for MSW in 2008

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Goals of revised National waste management plan 2

• Decoupling between GDP and waste quantity: total waste quantity may not exceed 69 MT in 2015 and 73 MT in 2021

• Waste recycling total 85 % in 2015;• Household waste recycling from 51% (2006) to 60 % (2015)• Commercial waste recycling to 60 % (2015)• CDW recycling 95% and Industrial waste (recovery 90% of

which at least 85% recycling)• Optimize energy recovery from residual waste• Limit quantity of waste to be disposed (no combustible waste

land filled 2010)• Achieving Level Playing Field in EU (promoting market forces,

encouraging innovation)

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Elements of waste policy

• Waste hierarchy: prevention, re-use, material recycling, energy-recovery, incineration, land filling

• Economic instruments to steer the waste to the preferred treatment• Stringent standards for disposal and recycling: decrees on landfill and

incineration, standards for building materials, organic fertilizers, ban on landfill

• Planning at National level: from separate panning systems for hazardous and non-hazardous waste towards one integral national waste plan

• Cooperation between 3 levels of government: municipal, regional and national

• Education and communication to create awareness and enhance participation with separate collection schemes

• Producers responsibility: legal as well as non legal systems for car tyres, batteries, Weee, ELV, packaging

• Notification and registration of waste transports: from separate to one integral system of registration and notification of waste transports

• Control and enforcement

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Hybride responsibility (differs)

Municipality Producer

-Residual waste-Biowaste-Bulky waste

Payed by citizens (waste taxes)

-Cars/end of live vehicles-Cartyres-Electronic and Electriq equipment-Plastic piping-Plastic window frames-Batteries-Paper and cardboard-Packaging

Payed by consumers (taxes, recycling fee)

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Curbside Bring

Residual waste Every other week

Biowaste Every other week

Paper / cardboard Monthly street containers

Glass Street containers

Plastic packaging One or two times a month Street containers

Textile Quarterly Street containers

Bulky waste On demand Civic amenity site

Common Dutch Collection Scheme

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Waste Hierarchy?

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Moving towards recycling

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Successful sectoral waste policy has brought many benefits, and is still necessary, but

(*) limitations of present policies are becoming clear, few gains to reach in traditional waste policy in the Netherlands

(*) environmental impact generated by current EU/NL patterns of resource use is too high (ecological footprint)

(*) scarcity in itself has become evident, while we still face an increasing demand for materials (in developed and developing countries)

(*) shift from waste to materials and supply chains

Chances for innovatie, business-cases, new coalitions

Why Chain approach?

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The choice is (y)ours

• Traditional waste management solutions need to be applied to the full extend for separate collection and recycling worldwide

• Traditional waste management alone can not solve the challenges we are facing regarding resource use and material & energy scarcity

• We need to optimize material use and dematerialize our consumption

• It is necessary to act on many levels and with many partners.• The question is not which instruments to apply, but how to

apply and combine the available instrument. • Most important now is to raise awareness for the necessity of

action and to create the right environment for these instruments to be applied

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Some Dutch suppliers of environmental equipment and advice in waste management

• Separation/sorting: Stibbe management Cluster Environment: Boa Enschede, Nihot

Amsterdam, VanderBroek thermal processes; Machinefabriek Emmen, Bollegraaf

Appingedam; Goudsmit, Bakker (magnets), Orlako (identificatiesystems), Redox

• Composting/digestion: Gicom tunnels; Orgaworld: Pacom, Biocel, Maris-projects,

• Containers/collection vehicles: Translift, Engels, Sidcon, Geesink, vanSchijndel (icm

DAF), Terberg, VanderMolen (weighing), Bammens (underground systems) Spiro

(walking floors)

• Land filling: trisoplast (GID Environmental techniques); Afvalzorg (remediation

dumpsites)

• EPR: ARN (Car recycling Netherlands), NVMP (E-waste), Nedvang (packaging);

Stibat (batteries)

• ICT: GMT (clear), NMPO (vista)

• Consultancy: Grontmij, Royal Haskoning, Arcadis, DHV, Tauw, Tebodin,

Witteveen&Bos; Kema

• Contact: www.NWMP.nl

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Netherlands Waste Management Partnership

• NWMP is a partnership of producers of equipment, of consultancies and operators and government

• NWMP is aimed at Public Private Cooperation for international business

• NWMP-members can offer solutions for a large variety of problems. The Netherlands is, with respect to waste management, a frontrunner in the European Union and the world.

• In the Netherlands less than 5% of all the waste is land filled; over 83% is recycled and recovered, 12% Waste to Energy

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Thank you for listening!Any Questions?

www.agentschapnl.nl www.uitvoeringafvalbeheer.nl

herman.huisman@agentschapnl.nl

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Targets in EU legislation

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Capacity, ownership and tariffs waste processing

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Incineratio cap. 6.9 Mton

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landfill cap 55,2 Mm3

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Total waste market 6.2 bln euro (2009)

Costs municipal waste management 2010 (collection and disposal) 1,8 bln € Average municipal waste tax: 251 € househould/yr. Costs 259€. Cost coverage 96.9%. 7.3 mln households, of which 95% of households have to pay

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