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Resource Efficiency and Waste: The Challenge for Ireland
1. RESOURCE EFFICIENCY & WASTE:
THE CHALLENGE FOR IRELAND
Dr Jonathan Derham SOE Conference
Resource Use Unit
Environmental Protection Agency
27-6-2012, Dublin
3. Progress to EU targets
ï Packaging Directive
ï WEEE Directive
ï End of Life Vehicles
ï Landfill Directive
ï Batteries Directive
ï Waste Framework Directive
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4. Household Waste Generation
European Ireland
Average Average
per person per person
444 kg 368 kg
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5. Municipal Waste Management
100% 4%
20.0%
90%
80% 38% Incineration/
70% Use as a Fuel
42.0%
60%
Recycled
50%
40%
58%
30%
38.0%
Landfilled
20%
10%
0%
IRELAND EU 27 (EuroStat)
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10. Infrastructure & Collection
ï No Merchant Hazardous Waste Incineration
ï No Hazardous Waste Landfill
ï Landfill Capacity 12 years at current rates
ï 15 of current 28 MSW landfills will close in 3 years
ï Merchant WtE capacity of 543,000tpa
ï Biological Treatment 550,000 tpa
ï One Civic Amenity Site per 43,000 population (107)
ï 1,922 bring banks
ï Cannot account for waste from over ÂŒ Million homes
ï Only 1 on 3 houses on a collection scheme have a 3rd bin
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11. Sustainable Consumption & Production
ïȘ
- Disposed
3t
6t - Wasted
16t - Raw Materials
Consumed
Per Person in EU 27
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12. Responses .1
ï LandfillLevy
ï Municipal Waste Pre-treatment
obligations
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13. Policy Driving Behavioural Change â
Landfill Levy & Diversion of BMW
tonnes âŹ
2,500,000 35
30 EPA MSW Pre-
2,000,000 treatment
25 Obligations &
1,500,000
Food Waste
20 Regulations
15
1,000,000
10 MSW Disposed to
500,000 Landfill
5 BMW Disposed to
Landfill
EU BMW Limit 2010
0 0
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 EU BMW Limit 2013
Year EU BMW Limit 2016
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14. Responses .1
ï Landfill Levy
ï Municipal Waste Pre-treatment
obligations
ï Compulsory commercial food waste bin
ï Producer Responsibility Schemes
ï Greater recovery of energy from non-
recyclable residual waste
ï Private Sector infrastructure delivery
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15. Responses .2
ï Development of National Waste Prevention
Programme www.nwpp.ie
ï Promotion of Resource Efficient
consumption & production behaviours
www.epaBeGreen.ie
ï Waste is being considered a resource
ï§ By-Product & End-of-Waste status
ï Implementation & Enforcement
ï Environment Fund
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16. Outlook .1
ï Need to tackle Food Waste issue
ï Need for strong and sustained action to drive the
ambitions of the waste hierarchy
ï Continuation of the national Resource Efficiency,
Waste Prevention & Cleaner Production
Programmes (NWPP, SEAI, EI) â more
integration, and targeted intervention)
ï Need for sustained societal action on
unsustainable production & consumption
behaviours
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17. Outlook .2
Producer Responsibility & Waste Prevention
ï Manufacturers & Service providers to accept greater
range of producer responsibilities
ï Life-cycle Thinking/Assessment
ï Product / Service Eco-Design
ï Resource Efficiency
ï Clean Technology
ï Reduction/elimination of hazardous substances in
products
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18. Thank you !
Jonathan Derham
ïź j.derham@epa.ie
ïź 053 9160670
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