recycling and recovery UK
Waste and recyclingThe next five years: is local democracy at odds with efficient service delivery?
Prepared by Stuart Hayward-Higham, Technical Development Director for SUEZ
LGA
19 July 20192
SUEZ | who are we ?
We harvest
resources discarded
by others.
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SUEZ | who are we ?
We recover
resources from the
waste others throw
away
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SUEZ | who are we ?
We recover energy
from the materials
that cannot be
recycled
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The activity chain | that we are involved in
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The activity chain | interventions planned
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A value chain | that needs to work together
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Collaborate | else we fail
8 I
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Coordination | to achieve
9 I
To get to 70% packaging recycled we need 5 x 93% efficiency
93% of people
Doing 93% of the right
things
93% of the time
With 93% of materials
being sorted
And 93% of materials
being reprocessed
HABIT MAKES EXCELLENCE
• Brand communications &
advertising
• Retail communication & advertising
• LA communication
• Waste company communication
• School education
• Government communication
QUALITY MONO STREAMS
• Product alignment and
design range reduction
• Recyclability by design
• Consistent collections
• Minimal Contamination
• Optimised MRF design
SECONDARY RESOURCES
• Minimised designed-in
contamination
• Quality mono stream feedstock
• Optimised refining &
reprocessing
MAKE IT SIMPLE
• On pack labelling
• Recycling by numbers
• Consistent collections
• Reduced product
variations
REINFORCE & REPEAT
• Continual communication and
advertising from all
• Incentive and penalty
• Bin weighing
• Targeted interventions
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push | top down or bottom up.
10 I
Most progress today has been achieved top down
National
policy
Local
delivery
Systems
imposed
Expectations
definedTargets set
After a certain level, progress will be more delivered
by decentralized multiple small improvements
Social
sector
Local
activists &
actions
Local
solutions
Local
empowerment
Value chain
actions
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So What ?
11 I
• Working across the value chain will be crucial
• Local solutions, empowerment and facilitation
will be fundamental
• Find a balance between the efficiency of
standardization and the care and emotion of
local citizen & community delivery
• Be happy to fail in something, fail quick, learn
and move on.
• Accept change in all we do with waste.
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End
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Stuart Hayward-Higham
Technical Development Director