Rethinking Waste

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• Rethinking Waste
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• Integrated Resource Management
• October 2009
• RAM / SWANA Conference
• Presented by
• Tim Brownell
• Eureka Recycling

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• Stakeholder Process is presenting an opportunity
  to re-think how we should be managing our
  discards.
• Managing Wastes
• Vs
• Full Utilization of Resources

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• Eureka Recycling
• Mission to demonstrate that waste is preventable
  
• not inevitable

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waste
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• Waste

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waste cd
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• Waste

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waste
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waste cd pallets
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waste cell phones
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waste water bottles
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waste milk jugs
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waste bottle caps
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• waste aluminum

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waste 55 gallon steel drums
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waste steel gas cylinders
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waste clothes other textiles
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waste glass bottles
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waste aseptic boxes and cartons
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waste boxboard
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waste paper
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waste paper
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waste paper
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Carbon Footprint

• Climate change
• hope/fear versus potential

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Carbon Footprint
Sound Resource Management, 2007
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Carbon Footprint
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Carbon Footprint
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Carbon Footprint
Sound Resource Management, 2007
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Other GHG Reduction Factors for Composting not
Captured by WARM Model
Some carbon contained in organic material is
returned and stored in the soil and not released
in atmosphere Reduces use of N20 fertilizers and
energy intensive pesticides. Sequesters carbon
in soil Improves soil health, mitigates damage
to soil caused by climate change
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San Francisco, California, US
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Composting Slides from Enzo Favoino Ambiente
Futuro, Treviso Region, Italy
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Anaerobic Digester
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Value of Recycling

• Minnesota throws away over 2 million tons of
  recyclable material each year. The 2 million tons
  of material which could be recycled has an
  estimated value of 312 million. It costs
  Minnesota 200 million to dispose of this
  material.
• Currently recycling rates remain flat, while
  Minnesota is producing greater amounts of waste.
• Minnesotas recycling industry is directly and
  indirectly responsible for 20,000 jobs 64
  million in tax revenue and adds 2.98 billion to
  the state economy.
• From 01-03, many sectors of the Minnesota
  economy lost jobs the recycling industry had a
  3.4 gain in employment.

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Recycling Jobs
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Strategies being Considered for Increasing
Recycling

• Mandatory Recycling Legislation 50 by 2015,
  60 by 2020
• Increased requirements for Commercial, Industrial
  and Institutional recycling rates
• Incentives for Recycling ( i.e. rebates)
• Recycling End Market Development
• Carpet and Mattress Recycling Programs
• Increase Waste Reduction and Recycling Education

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Strategies being Considered for Source Separated
Organics Management

• Goals of 5-7 by 2015 through Food-to-people,
  Food-to-animals, Composting, Anaerobic Digestion,
  rising to 15 by 2020
• Backyard Composting
• Residential Curbside Source-Separated Organics
  Collection
• Restaurants, Cafeterias, Institutions, and
  Business that are large generators of organic
  streams
• Anaerobic Digestion for energy recovery prior to
  composting
• Revise permitting requirements for composting
  sites for SSO
• State Investment in and support for Composting
  facilities and End-Market development
• Legislative support for and enforcement of 15
  recovery goal.

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Results

• What is left in the trash will be recognizable.
• It will be unwanted
• It will become a target
• It will be synonymous with climate change
• No one in their right mind will want to have
  their brand name on it.
• What we call results are beginnings Ralph Waldo
  Emerson