the future of material recovery facilities 2013
DESCRIPTION
This presentation was prepared for the Resource Recycling 2013 Conference in Louisville in late August. It is a Point of View (POV) presented by the RRS President, JD Lindeberg and represents the collective and collaborative work of many of RRS's senior thinkers.TRANSCRIPT
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Driving Forces Behind Tomorrow’s MRFs
Dyn amic Dev e lopm en t o f O p po r tu n i t i e s (b o t h New an d O ld )
Materials/Market
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Materials/Market
Processing
Materials/Market
Processing
Infrastructure
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Emerging Trends
Materials/MarketProcessingInfrastructure
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Materials & Markets:Market vs No Market
GREENFENCE
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Materials & Markets:Regional DifferencesGlass market access varies
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Materials & Markets:Material Mix Changes
Huge Decrease
Huge Increase
Huge Increase
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Materials & Markets: Market Timing
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Dynamic and strengthening material markets.
Materials & Markets: Wrap-Up
World growth drives commodities prices.
A Gold Rush is coming. Own the waste stream.
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Single Stream vs Something Else: Few Alternatives Scale Opportunities
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Single Stream vs Something Else: Market Pushback
CONTAMINATION
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Single Stream vs Something Else: Steward pushback in CA Price/Quality dilemma
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The MRF is the central feature of recovery.
Processing: Wrap-Up
Constant pressure to increase stream size is at war with quality.
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Infrastructure: Scale vs Diversity
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Infrastructure: Economics of Transfer vs Specialization
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Cost if material was processed
locally=
$/ton availabl
e for Haul
Transfer Station Load Cost
Destination MRF Cost+( )-
Based on operating Model for MRF size likely for each region
Based on cost curve for tonnage at each aggregation point
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Infrastructure: Infrastructure Sufficiency (Tennessee)
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IMPACT PER 10,000 TONS OF ADDITIONAL DIVERSION – SINGLE STREAM
$ 1,181,250CAPITAL INVESTMENT
MARKET EFFICIENCIES
$ 1,860,200
$ 678,95068JOBS
REV
$130 million total capital
7,480 total jobs
$180 million in market activity
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Infrastructure: Infrastructure Sufficiency (USA)
90 million tons=> Landfill
900 New MRFS=> $15.3B capital
Valuable Material=> $9.0B
2nd Shift all MRFS820 New MRFs
=> $13.9B capital
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Plenty of Unmet Need.Infrastructure: Wrap-Up
Huge Economic Returns Are Available.
Lowest Hanging Fruit for GHG Reduction.
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Emerging Trends: Silver Bullet vs Sophisticated/Flexible Solutions
• Still need picture or graphic
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Emerging Trends: Dirty MRF
HANDS ON
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Emerging Trends: Energy Recovery
DIRTYFUEL?
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CLEANORGANICS
Emerging Trends: Organics
CONTAMINATIONTROUBLES
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Emerging Trends: Innovation
WHATNOW?
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Emerging Trends: Wrap-Up
Highest and best use wins.
Energy recovery is only a gateway to higher and better use.
Flexible facilities accommodate change.
CONTACT
JD Lindeberg, President
EMAIL: [email protected]
RECYCLE.COM 734.646.3303
Thanks: Aaron, Jason, Jim, Kerry, Marty and Elizabeth