Circular Waste Management #11

South Africa

·??????This report is a review of the Waste-to-Energy (WtE) policy in South Africa within the framework of the IEA Bioenergy Task 36. In addition, drivers and barriers in the implementation of WtE solutions in different counties (i.e.,Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Sweden and United States of America) are also presented and discussed. The purpose of this review is to provide countries with inspiration and support in implementing suitable policies and solutions in the waste-to-resources management and WtE sector that would facilitate their transition towards circularity. The IEA Bioenergy Task 36, working on the topic “Material and Energy Valorization of Waste in a Circular Economy”, seeks to raise public awareness of the sustainable energy generation from biomass residues and waste fractions including municipal solid waste (MSW) as well as to increase technical information dissemination. As outlined in the 3-year work program, Task 36 seeks to understand what role energy from waste and material recycling can have in a circular economy and identify technical and non technical barriers and opportunities needed to achieve this vision. More to read: https://task36.ieabioenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/34/2023/02/Task-36-Waste-to-Energy-Policy-Review_2023final-2.pdf

·??????Concept note for a technical assistance to assist the DSI in establishing the appropriate process and modalities, and cooperation, to develop a detailed Science Technology Innovation -led Circular Economy Roadmap for South Africa based on evidence-led and knowledge based policy making to drive the transition to a circular economy. The focus of this technical assistance will be to build on top of existing initiatives (STI4CE Framework) and to develop the detailed and operational STI4CE Roadmap in a stakeholder inclusive process with clear government ownership. More to read: https://www.ctc-n.org/content/developing-sti-led-cross-sectoral-circular-economy-roadmap-abating-ghg-emissions-south-0

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·??????The Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE) and Circle Economy have established the Circular Economy Indicators Coalition (CEIC) to drive harmonization and increased application of circular indicators. More to read: https://www.circle-economy.com/metrics/circular-economy-indicators-coalition

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·??????The Zambian Circular Economy Study was funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland under the Accelerated Growth for SMEs (AGS) Program private sector development initiative, implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprise Development of Zambia. The overall aim was to understand the market needs in Zambia and business opportunities for the private sector in the circular economy space based on raw material available in Zambia for recycling and manufacturing. More to read: ?https://agsprogramme.org/2023/02/20/ags-launches-circular-economy-study-report/

·??????PREVENT Matchmaking Session with?Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)?on “Challenges and opportunities for waste pickers in EPR” that will take place on?28 March 2023 at 3:30 pm CEST. More to read, contact [email protected] .

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·??????Over Rwf 3 billion needed to evict affected Communities in Nduba Landfill surrounding Area. The City of Kigali has announced that plans are underway to relocate families surrounding the Nduba Landfill. This will respond to the concerns of the local populations who have continued to lament the Landfill to be?dangerous as some of the residents are suffering from various diseases and other infections caused by many flies that come from the landfill zone and spread to the nearby homes. Based on the problems they are facing, the residents are asking the administration of the City of Kigali, which is in charge of the Nduba landfill, to evict them and find them somewhere else to live, so that they can continue to have a good life like other citizens. The administration of the City of Kigali says that since 2012, they have relocated about 821 residents from the area for reasons of public interest, while about 80 remain to be relocated. More to read: https://www.topafricanews.com/2023/02/21/over-rwf-3-billion-needed-to-evict-affected-communities-in-nduba-landfill-zone/

·??????EPR and DRS policy recap: With momentum surging in state legislatures to tackle our growing waste crisis, we face a pivotal opportunity to catalyze the new reuse economy. State legislation such as Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and Deposit Return Systems (DRS) must focus on transitioning to a circular economy that prioritizes reuse. The best solutions are place-based, which is why these principles include flexibility for policies to reflect each state’s unique needs. More to read: https://upstreamsolutions.org/blog/epr-policy-principles

·??????Complementary to waste prevention and recycling, Waste-to-Energy facilities currently represent the most sustainable solution to treat non-recyclable waste. The Integrated Resource-Recovery Facility (IRF) represents a new model of plant and a step-change evolution in waste thermal treatment. This holistic project, first introduced in 2019 by ESWET in its 2050 Vision, can now be implemented thanks to state-of-the-art European engineering. There are two options for the treatment of non-recyclable and residual waste: thermal treatment, or landfilling. The former is recognized as part of the ‘recovery’ operations, above ‘disposal’. The report is made by the European Suppliers of Waste to Energy Technology ESWET. It is also presenting waste to hydrogen. The utilization of residual waste is not only limited to heat and electricity. Indeed, renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and e-fuels are now on the table. Via electrolysis or certain types of gasification, but also by coupling captured carbon and hydrogen to produce methane (gas) and methanol (liquid), new technologies are ready to contribute to decarbonizing other sectors such as transport. Furthermore, hydrogen can be used as intermediate storage to manage fluctuating electricity load. As about half of the energy produced by plants is of biogenic origin, Waste-to-Hydrogen is partly renewable, partly low-carbon. Waste-to-Hydrogen has been proven in Wuppertal, Germany. There, the WtE plant can generate enough hydrogen to power 20 public transport buses (with a goal of 70 buses by 2025), contributing to the decarbonization of heavy transport vehicles, and avoiding particle matter emissions. More to read: https://eswet.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ESWET_IRF-Report_14.03.pdf

·??????Socio-economic development drives solid waste management performance in cities: A global analysis using machine learning: for the first time the long-standing hypothesis that both the rate of municipal solid waste (MSW) generation in a city, and the performance of its MSW management system, depends on its level of socio-economic development level. We prepared the first consistent and comprehensive dataset for 40 cities around the world and used state-of-the-art statistical and machine learning techniques to correlate Wasteaware Cities Benchmark Indicators (WABI) with a broad range of explanatory socio-economic indices (including Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Social Progress Index (SPI) and Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). More to read: ?https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0048969723005284?token=BA95CAA6BF905EC5B6E487AC8B6210D4074A9FC44646074FD59364C44F456ED7A33146D08B66120DD5130BB52F7B03FD&originRegion=eu-west-1&originCreation=20230318044233

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·??????Zero waste to landfill approach is not only targeting municipal waste but also industrial waste. See this guide to help understand. More to read: https://f.hubspotusercontent40.net/hubfs/4944195/Gbook_Zero-Waste-to-Landfill_FINAL.pdf?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_cAA56NKxE1G8l3BLQcPvNjQNtEs9NVzPlZULe-xgmiORx3PGTIunbQLoyaYxCB68VUWZbAdlZpDPOEumy375eUXnsWQ&_hsmi=96065475&utm_content=96065475&utm_source=hs_automation&hsCtaTracking=1ccfc336-27d7-4c0a-a86f-35789f9bb284%7Cc5774653-d35b-451c-ba18-1a149fc12309

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·??????Burger King in Germany goes for RECUP (Food and drinks to take away – without disposable waste) More to read: https://recup.de/

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·??????Nestlé Indonesia is actively exploring innovative, alternative delivery systems such as bulk, reuse and refill options across several product categories,” to gain new insights that can be applied to our products, as well further assess the refillable system’s effectiveness in preventing packaging waste along the supply chain.” More to read: https://packagingeurope.com/news/nestle-pilots-refillable-vending-machines-for-cereal-brands-in-indonesia/9519.article?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Packaging%20Connections%20-%2016323&utm_content=Packaging%20Connections%20-%2016323+CID_8ebae9b932851380acf0c3c2dca47cfb&utm_source=News%20letters&utm_term=Read%20more

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·??????A cross-industry coalition representing the European hospitality and beverage industries and its packaging value chain has called for an improved impact assessment surrounding the proposal for a EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), cautioning that businesses and consumers alike could suffer under the inefficient rollout of reuse and refill schemes. In the coalition’s view, the impact assessment as it relates to reuse and refill targets for certain Member State operators and different beverage categories is currently insufficient. It is said to only present unfounded EU aggregated numbers without breaking down the figures per country, product category, or reuse solution. Arguing that the economic impact of said targets have been underestimated, the companies point to a study conducted by?PwC ?suggesting that a 10% refillable PET target at EU level would cost the soft drinks sector €16 billion, excluding the setup of appropriate deposit return schemes (DRS). On the other hand, the PPWR’s impact assessment anticipates capital and operating costs of €1.48 billion for all reuse schemes, including DRS-related costs for refillable. More to read: https://packagingeurope.com/news/cross-industry-coalition-from-beverage-hospitality-and-packaging-sectors-calls-for-improvements-in-ppwrs-impact-assessment/9545.article

France

·??????Report: 500 solutions to plastic pollution and 12 recommendations. To act against plastic pollution, the association No Plastic In My Sea and its partners, Réseau Consigne, Réseau Vrac and the Institut du Commerce, are calling for an acceleration of the transformations of our production and distribution methods. More to read: https://noplasticinmysea.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Rapport-DEF-500-solutions-2023.pdf

·??????INEC unveils a study conducted with Capgemini that takes stock of the low-carbon transition and critical mineral and natural resources by 2050. It reveals that the National Low Carbon Strategy (SNBC), a roadmap for the decarbonization of France, does not sufficiently take into account the resource constraints that weigh on its implementation, especially in the context of a linear economy system. More to read: https://institut-economie-circulaire.fr/strategie-nationale-bas-carbone-sous-contrainte-de-ressources/

·??????This study was carried out for ADEME in order to better understand the concept of low-tech and to clarify it in order to position it with regard to its fields of intervention. Through a bibliography study and some thirty interviews, the contours of this concept with diverse and changing definitions were traced and the conditions for large-scale deployment were identified. Bearers of synergies and compatible with the concepts of sobriety, circular economy and especially frugal innovation, low-tech reinvest the notion of innovation, in the service of the ecological transition.?It shows that low-tech can be an interesting tool for the ecological transition, given the environmental, economic and social benefits it can bring. However, low-tech companies are hampered in their large-scale deployment by cultural, regulatory and financial obstacles that ADEME could help to remove through its business base. More to read: https://librairie.ademe.fr/dechets-economie-circulaire/5421-demarches-low-tech.html

·??????Article L. 541-10-1 4° of the Environmental Code provides for the establishment of an "extended producer responsibility" (EPR) sector for the management of construction products and materials in the building sector. Thus, any "producer" of construction products and materials in the building sector is required to provide for or contribute to the prevention and management of waste from them as well as to adopt an eco-design approach to products, to contribute to

development aid projects for the collection and treatment of waste and to develop their reuse, recycling or recovery. For this, producers must join a PRO approved by the public authorities, paying it a financial contribution (or failing that, set up an individual system approved by the public authorities). There are?4 PROs (Ecomaison, Ecominéro, Valdélia and Valobat)?to take charge of the obligations of manufacturers and distributors in terms of collection and treatment of products and building materials in the building sector that adhere to them. More to read: https://www.valobat.fr/communiques-de-presse/presentation-du-deploiement-operationnel-de-la-filier-pmcb/ and for this a new demolition database at the service of construction waste was developed (https://www.apur.org/fr/nos-travaux/une-nouvelle-base-donnees-demolition-service-dechets-btp )

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·??????Based on a study combining interviews and surveys of more than 60 manufacturers from all sizes and in all sectors, the National Institute of Circular Economy and OPEO worked together to define industry models circular and the identification of levers to enable its implementation and scaling up. The objective of this study is to accelerate the pivot of industry towards circular industry and to facilitate the commitment of the actors towards a model capable of respond to economic, environmental and social challenges. The study consists of 3 parts. The first one part, “Understanding”, reaffirms the need and the interest of initiating a systemic transition towards a circular industry. The second part, "Rethinking", describes how to rethink the circularity of models economics, product design and models industrial. Finally, the third part "Accelerate", identifies the obstacles encountered and the levers in motion and acceleration for the actors industrial and institutional. The industry remains a startup. It hasn't yet found its model to make this transition to scale and respond to developments over the next 50 years. A transition is underway. Of the improvements confined to the heart of the factory systemic transformations, manufacturers are committed to this transformation and seize the opportunity represented by the circular economy. Scaling up the circular industry can happen thanks to the constitution of a structural framework incentive, relating to regulations, economics and behavioral change. All these levers must therefore be activated in order to emerge a circular industry of the future. More to read: https://opeo-conseil.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Pivoter-vers-lindustrie-circulaire-Etude-OPEO-INEC-1.pdf

·??????The complexity of packaging: find technical information on packaging and its recycling. All our works are licensed under CC 4.0 (BY-NC-SA). You can reshare them for free as soon as you attribute authorship to us, citing the license, outside of any commercial use and without modifying them, unless you put a link to the original work. More to read: https://m-mme-recyclage.com/services.html?