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Taking

Waste Management into the future

Danilo Vismara

Marketing Manager – AMSA S.p.A.

Brussels, December 3rd 2014

This information was prepared by Amsa and it is not to be relied on by any 3rd party without Amsa’s prior written consent. 2

1.3 million inhabitants

800,000 commuters

182 km2 city area

4,000 km of road network

over 7,000 inhab./km2

650,000 tons of MSW collected

500,000 km of roads swept per year

1,300 waste collection and street-sweeping vehicles (30% CNG)

42.9% waste separate collection rate in 2013

Critical issues

Lack of space

Traffic jamming in rush hours and parked cars

High population density and presence of commuters

Next targets

Increase recycling to comply with European rules

EXPO 2015: challenges on sustainable development issues

The city of Milan: figures and key indicators


Better quality of collected waste

Limited street exposure of waste

Positive effects on hygiene and

appearance of the city

Benefits of door to door collection

Amsa is the company part of the A2A Group that has been

managing for over a hundred years the Integrated Waste

Cycle (from collection to transport and treatment) and

cleanliness of the city of Milan.

Current waste collection is based on:

• door to door collection throughout the city with:

- bins (paper and cardboard, glass and food waste)

- bags (light metals, plastic, residual waste)

55.000 waste collection points

230 bring banks for paper and glass

bulky waste collection service at home by appointment,

free of charge at road level and directly at home with

charge

5 civic amenity sites for hazardous and bulky waste

and 1 mobile civic amenity site

36.000 bins for streets and parks

Operative Depts

Civic amenity sites MCAS Mobile Civic Amenity Site

Waste collection system in Milan


At the beginning of 2000, in Milan was implemented an integrated system mainly based on:

1. Maximizing separate waste collection for recycling plants

2. Recovery of energy and heat through thermal treatment from NOT recyclable waste

3. Zero landfill (since 1997)

Milan integrated waste management system


The household packaging waste management is set up by the Italian law and is based on the establishment of CONAI, the national no-profit packaging consortium, adhesion to which is compulsory for all packaging producers and users with the aim of achieving the recovery and recycling targets set by the EU.

For the recovery and recycling operations of individual materials, CONAI co-ordinates the activities of all the consortia for other materials (steel, aluminum, paper, wood, plastic and glass)

Milan collects all of the 6 main packaging materials, mostly separated at the source, to ensure the best quality and best recycling performances

Milan has its own plant only for glass sorting (Amsa SpA) while all the other materials are treated in other plants that participate in the CONAI recycling system

Plastic and light metals

Paper and cardboard

Glass

Food waste

Packaging waste and food waste collection

Italian household packaging management system

This information was prepared by Amsa and it is not to be relied on by any 3rd party without Amsa’s prior written consent.

Integrated waste collection system

• Door to door collection • Civic amenity sites • Mobile civic amenity site

PAPER

CARDBOARD GLASS

PLASTICS

METALS BIOWASTE

Sorting and recycling plants

(COMIECO)

FROM PRODUCTION TO COLLECTION Sorting and recycling plant in Asti (COREVE)

Sorting and recycling plants (COREPLA, CIAL

and RICREA

Anaerobic digestion plant

in Montello

FROM COLLECTION TO RECYCLING

FROM RECYCLING TO PRODUCTION

Biogas/Compost New material

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Waste production

Households-Small businesses

Office buildings-Retail trade-Institutions

Streets and parks

Product -

packaging

Packaging and food waste recycling in Milan


The Legislative Decree 151 of 2005 states that EEE Producers are responsible for financing transportation, treatment, recovery and disposal of WEEE from their own products. Producers have a collective responsibility, proportionally to their respective share of the market. This responsibility is exercised through the establishment of Collective Schemes.

The Coordination Centre, managed and regulated by the Collective Schemes under the supervision of the WEEE Compliance and Control Committee, ensures that the all collective systems work with harmonised modalities and operative conditions.

•WEEE groupings:

R1 Refrigerating equipment

R2 “Great whites”

R3 TV and Monitors

R4 Small appliances, consumer electronics, appliances and more enlightening

R5 Light Sources

The new WEEE Directive approved by the European parliament establishes that in 2019 must be recovered 65% of the average weight of electrical and electronic equipment put on the market in the preceding 3 years.

For Italy it means that the system must reach an average of about 10 kg/inhabitant.

In 2012 AMSA collected in Milan 3,130 tons of WEEE, approximately 2.32 kg/inhabitant. -10 tons of light sources R5

WEEE system in Italy


European Directive on Waste

EU Commission proposals to review recycling and other waste-related targets represent an important step towards improving resource efficiency and moving closer to a circular European economy. They set out ambitious goals proposed to increase the share of recycling and preparing for reuse of municipal waste to a minimum of 50% by weight by 2020 and to a minimum of 70% by weight by 2030.

Objectives of waste collection in Italy

The current Italian legislation does not set targets for recycling, but identifies specific targets for separate collection to be achieved by 2012* (under revision)

* National Environmental draft law sets the goal

of 65% of separate collection to be reached in 2016

Leg. Decree 152/2006

Year Target

2006 35%

2008 45%

2012* 65%

European and Italian reference standards


MSW production and separate collection rate in Milan

MSW PRODUCTION (t) SEPARATE COLLECTION GROWTH (%)

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

640.000

660.000

680.000

700.000

720.000

740.000

760.000

2000 ‘02 ‘04 ‘06 ‘08 ‘10 ‘12 ‘14 ‘16 2000 ‘02 ‘04 ‘06 ‘08 ‘10 ‘12 ‘14

2016 Forecast * 2014 Forecast based on Jan-Oct data

*

-13% from 2008 to 2013


43,4%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

Projection to 2016

* Progressive September 2014

50,2%*

36,7%

Energy recovery

Household organic collection

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Separate collection rate in Milan


Action plan implemented in Milan 2012-2014

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ACTION PLAN

To increase results achieved in the past years, Amsa started in 2012 a two phase plan:

1. Introduction, in mid february, of the trasparent bag to replace the traditional black bag for the collection of the residual waste to divert and easily control plastic, glass and paper still present in the residual waste

2. Organic waste collection (food waste) extended to households, starting November 2012

SIDE ACTIONS

Awareness and communication campaign to all the citizens

Targeted controls and sanctions (42,379 for WASTE NON CONFORMITY in 2013)

GENERAL GOALS

Increase separate collection rate and recover household organic fraction (anaerobic digestion and composting)

Keep the qualitative results of the current waste collection service

Customer Satisfaction survey shows in April 2013 a mean value greater than 8 over 10 as a maximum value for the waste collection services

Benefit by a “trailing phenomen” with positive feedbacks on quantity, but especially on quality of all recyclable fractions


In February 2012 the use of transparent bag was introduced in place of the black bag for the collection of the residual fraction.

Specific Objectives

Diversion of plastic, glass and paper still present in the residual waste

Checking more easily for recyclable waste fractions erroneously put together with residual waste.

Results (after 6 months)

Significant increase of plastic (+1%), paper (+0.7%), glass (+0.2%)

* The compulsory use of transparent bags was launched in view of the introduction of the household organic waste collection

1. Introduction of the transparent bag


Collection plan

Door to door collection system with brown bins

Census of the area for designing the service, and to detect any possible management problems

Coordinated activities with the Municipality of Milan (registering households and mayor ordinance for each step)

Implementation program in 4 steps (start november 2012 and finish June 2014)

Modelling new collection routes (weights, number of households, streets, productivity, etc.)

Final testing on field and optimization

2. Organic waste collection plan

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4 step program

1° phase

November 2012 2° phase

June 2013

3° phase

December 2013

4° Phase

June 2014

Areas served

Start June 2014


Organic waste households kit

10 lt. ventilated kitchen bin

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Note: bins are given free loan to citizens

The small kitchen bin has a special airy structure to ensures optimal oxygenation of the bag and its content to minimize the inconvenience related to the formation of odors and liquids.

Bioplastics bags have properties and characteristics of use very similar to traditional plastics, but at the same time, they are biodegradable and compostable according to the European standard EN 13432

HDPE brown 35 lt. bin with handle and lock

For SMALL BUILDINGS (on request)

120 lt. curbside bin

For LARGE BUILDINGS

25 free compostable bags


DIRECT MARKETING ACTIONS

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Letter to families signed by mayor and Amsa president

Letter to building administrators, including posters and street list reached by collection service

Letter to the presidents of Area City Councils

Awareness and communication campaign 1/2

App PULIamo

App developed for the Environmental Companies of the A2A Group and available for all mobile OS with dedicated information on where and when of the new service and general rules. The app helps citizen to keep the city clean and sustainable talking directly to the Company.

Updated information for each step

Communication material available in 8 languages (English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese, Ukrainian, Romanian and Sinhalese)

Street search

Audio guide for the blind

DEDICATED PAGE on the WEB SITE www.amsa.it


ADVERTISING AND MEDIA RELATIONS

Ad on local newspapers

Communication campaign on municipal

Totems

Bus and underground ads

Press release for bins delivery

Awareness and communication campaign 2/2

EVENTS AND MEETINGS

Communication activity to primary and secondary schools with dedicated information

and meetings in the Area City Councils

Communication and information to users of the Mobile Civic Amenity Site (CAS)

Mobile CAS - MOBILE CIVIC AMENITY SITE


Household organic waste quality results

Biowaste collected in Milan is treated in anaerobic digestion plant with energy recovery (biogas) and production of good quality compost.

Organic fraction collected has to comply with AD plant requirements. So after every step of implementation, food waste composition analysis were performed in collaboration with the Parco di Monza Agronomy School revealing:

Good quality of samples taken from January 2013 to June 2014, with Non Compostable Material (NCM%) equal to 4.34%

In all samples, the compostable fraction is almost exclusively composed of kitchen waste, with a negligible (on average <3%) fraction of paper, cardboard and green waste

Plastic is the main contaminant, in particularly the plastic bags used inappropriately for containing the organic fraction

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Recall actions for specific targets

Information campaign on quality Ethnic campaign for separate collection

• 180,000 guides in 10 languages: Italian, English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese, Ukrainian, Romanian and Sinhalese and Tagalog

• One to one distribution, foreigners among people of the same Nation


2011 2012 2013 2014

691.806 666.418 649.838 660.200

523 503 480 493

*

*

* 2014 Forecast Source: AMSA

65.5% 63.2% 56.6%

51%* 12.0% 12.3%

12.7%

12.7%

18.1%

11.2%

6.2%

9.5%

5.3%

9.2%

4.5% 5.2% 6.0% 6.3%

9.6% 9.7%

3.5% 3,6% 3.9% 4.2%

Total MSW (t)

MSW per capita (kg/inh. *year)

Residual waste

Paper and cardboard

Biowaste

Glass

Plastic and metals

WEEE, Bulky waste and other

49%

*

Separated collection trend in Milan (2011-2014)


Fraction MILAN (Kg/inh.)

LOMBARDY(Kg/inh.)

ITALY(Kg/inh.)

Anno 2013

Biowaste 53,0 101,5 85,9

Paper and cardboard 61,0 54,1 50,2

Plastics 29,0

18,5 15,5

Metals 5,2 4,0

Glass 46,1 39,9 26,4

Wood 4,0 15,6 10,5

WEEE 2,2 3,9 3,4

Textiles 2,4 1,9 1,8

Bulky waste 8,4* 6,5

Total 209 245,4 205,8

* only recycled

Source: MSW Report 2014 - ISPRA

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>

>

>

20

(>90**)

** forecast value with all the new service implemented

Separate collection in Milan/Lombardy/Italy (2013)


Over 20 millions of visitors during the Universal Exposition hosted in Milan (May - October 2015)

Target 80% for separate collection and material recycling inside the Exihibition Centre

Next challenge for the city of Milan: EXPO 2015

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Conclusions and future steps

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The case of Milan shows how it is possible to separate recyclable waste in densely populated metropolitan cities, with excellent quantitative results and high standards of the collection service

The waste collection system adopted by Milan – door to door - proves to be more efficient compared to other methods adopted by Italian and European cities in order to achieve the recycling targets set by the European Directives

The door to door organic waste collection has exceeded our expectations, leading Milan to over 50% recycling (September 2014) with all the residents served by this new collection

For achieving the new recycling targets expected by EU Commision, Milan will have to improve new separate collection services focused on specific targets with low capture-rate (for example paper and WEEE from office buildings and institutions or cardboard and other packaging wastes from small business and retail trade or biowaste from open markets)

Further Milan will have to extend its sorting and recycling plant network: in this direction EU and regional funds will play an important role in order to support investments based on innovative technology

Milan will have also to carry on with a widespread awareness campaign and to develop new projects in order to improve waste prevention and reuse (for example food distribution from restaurants and canteens to charities or repairing center close to civic amenity sites)

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