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Open Day Two Workshops
Notes from Workshop H
Steve Read, East Hants District Council
Session 1
List the issues that currently prevent us from closing the "environmental
and economic loop" for the waste materials we collect
- Consistency and volume (critical mass for commercial outlets)
- Quality and contamination of material collected
- Fractions of waste eg mixed paper easier for public to separate, public demand
for recycling- can’t turn on and off recycling schemes
- Changing market place vs stability
- Only get low price for long term contract
- Risk – way forward to share this?
- PRNs – opportunity to keep price higher and assist in recovering more
materials from waste
- PRN needs to go back into LAs etc
- Green waste
- Collection and separation – physical problems in urban areas
Session 2
What can WE do to close this loop on a local level in next 10 years?
- In Surrey private sector responsible for finding markets, providing points for
them to deliver to, taking on the risk on price. WCAs must meet minimum quality.
- Increase member awareness
- Need to work with other disciplines eg Planning
- WCA and WDAs dialogue with neighbours within a region
- Need a focal point – RDAs role?
- Public education
- National level
- Work in schools – is this consistent?
- Information to SMEs on what recycled products are available to use
- Incentives
- Targets to reduce waste (put on private sector) – team of people to educate
the public (SITA) must be prepared to pay for this
- Landfill tax – need to be able to access this (LAs)
- Problem of global market, cheap imports. Can this be reduced? Lobbying central
government?
Session 3
Three solutions to ‘close the loop’ locally within the next ten years
METALS
Discussion
- Different types
- Metals
- Grades
- Ferrous and non-ferrous
- Values
- Toxic (some)
- Abandoned and end of life vehicles
- Large source of metal
- EU directive
- White goods
- Large amount in construction and demolition wastes
- Some metal incorporated in wastes
- Can recover metals from EFW plants (ferrous metals) at front or back end of
incineration
- Role of gasification – Bridge End plant
- Pyrolysis
- ¼ million tonnes per annum for electric arc furnace (Port Talbot: 12 sq miles
site)
- drink cans
- steel
- aluminium – expensive
- competitive market between steel and aluminium packaging industry
- lightweighting, steel cans have been reduced in weight from 32g ® 19g ® and less in the future
- consider the life cycle of packaging material
- 4½ million tonnes produced a year, of steel
- 750,000 tonnes for steel cans
- 150,000 tonnes recycled
- Corus can take far more cans, but only steel
- Reverse vending machines
- PRNs
- Glut at the moment, low price £7-11/tonne
- Targets increasing next year 52%® 58%
- Shortfall planned for next year
- Batteries – problem of markets
- White goods
- Fashion items
- Not designed for durability
- Refurbish® export to developing countries
- Secondhand sale at HWRCs
- Need to check in working order
Three solutions
- Waste exchange – ‘virtual’ exchanges on web sites
- Reconditioning white goods, local and international use
- Education
- SMEs
- Members
- Householders
- Other professions
- Voluntary sector
- Planning
- New housing areas
- Major Development Areas
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