Recycling for the Future

Thursday 24th November 2011

Steve Lee – CEO Chartered Institution of Wastes Management

The CIWM Vision“A world where:

• Resources are kept working

• Wastes are put back to work

• Residues are carefully disposed of”.

It is only a “policy review”....

• CIWM: 30p evidence

• But...its NOT a strategy

• National waste plan (2012)

• Finance no-go area

• Planning no-go area

• NOT the Energy Review

• General de-regulation climate

• NOTHING trumps overcoming the national defecit

This is Spinal Tap

CIWM: A Luke Warm Response

• CIWM recognises Defra's commitment to broaden waste policy into the wider realms of resource efficiency. However, there is nothing radical or new in the document.

• What this review doesn't do...is identify how England will aspire to become a thought leader and top performer in sustainable waste and resource management

“Hot” • Broad objectives – well beyond

“waste”

• Recognition of roles of technologies

• Planning guidance / need

• Responsibility schemes

• Carbon metric

• AD strategy

• No radical change supports continuity

“Cold” • “waste” policy review

• No interim or ambitious targets

• Weak on data

• Not enough on I&C wastes

• Nothing on pre-treatment

• Late on Prevention Plan

• “actions” often to “look at”, “Explore” or “Encourage”

Action• Voluntary responsibility deal – ESA (1)

• MRF Code of Practice (2)

• Hospitality VR deal (5)

• LA recycling and waste services commitment (23)

• Reward and Recognition scheme fund (24)

• Waste collections (32)

• AD Strategy (37)

• EfW Guide (39)

More, Please!• Packaging recycling targets (26)

• Food waste

• Controlled Waste Regs (43)

• National Waste Management Plan (47)

• Landfill bans (51) and (54)

• Waste prevention Plan (7)

• PPS10, NPPF, Waste Local Plans

• Green Investment Bank

Data

• The edoc programme will modernise the way waste data is collected in the UK and ..... the ability to extract good quality data for businesses, regulators and government.

• With the support of EU LIFE+ funding, the programme aims to create a national, internet-based system to monitor the waste journey from production to collection, transportation, treatment and disposal.

Proposed Municipal Waste Recycling Rates (But still subject to further change)

2010

2013

2015

2016

2020

2025

England 40%

45%

50%

Scotland

40%

50%

60%

70%

Wales 40%

52%

58%

64%

70%

N Ireland

35%

40%

45%

60%