A snapshot of international and national progress of IE.

1. Industrial Ecology-International
and National Roundup
Grant Musgrove, CEO

2. About ACOR
• Australia’s peak representative of the resource
recovery and recycling industry
• Advocate on behalf of the industry to influence
government policy and decision making
• Work closely with the Federal and the State
Government to promote a sustainable and
productive economy

3. Circular Production and Consumption
Benefits
1. Net material savings
- Estimated $1 trillion per
year globally
2. Mitigate supply risks
- e.g. demand- driven
volatility
3. Job creation
- Estimated 1m
remanufacturing and
recycling jobs in EU and the
US
4. Close the loop/ Zero
waste

4. International- Europe
• On 2 July 2014, the EU Commission launch the ‘Green
Growth Package’
– Linking waste policy with resource efficiency through the
‘circular economy’ to reduce resource consumption, maximise
reuse and recycling
• The Resource Efficiency Flagship Initiative and the
Roadmap to a Resource Efficient recommend the EU
members to prioritise IE as an opportunity to exploit
resource efficiency
• The Ellen Macarthur Foundation and the UK’s National
Industrial Symbiosis Programme strongly push
businesses towards a circular economy

5. International- China
• The Circular Economy Promotion Law passed the 11th
National People’s Congress in 2008
• The Chinese ‘Circular Economy’ Initiative prioritised IE as
the key to address the existing environmental issues
– Committed US$ 1.2B in science and technology investment for
sustainable development by the Minister of Science and
Technology
• Developed the largest national Eco- industrial Park (EIP),
encompassing 15 national demonstration EIPs and 45
national trial EIPs
– E.g. the Tianjin Binhai New Area (electronic and chemical
clusters)

6. IE in Australia…
The concept of IE has been applied in Australia over 15
years!!
However…
• Lack of initiatives and financial support by Govt
• Regulation constrains
– e.g. licencing and approvals, environmental planning
and enforcement
• Lack of certainty about planning policy
• Low community awareness
As a result…
• Many of the industrial areas recognised as an IE
precincts either Struggling to Survive or DIED due to the
lack of financial support, regulation constrains and low
public awareness/ support
• E.g. Kwinana industrial area (IA), Gladstone IA, Port
Melbourne industrial park and Synergy Park QLD

7. (Editor: Corder, Fyfe and King 2014)

8. Too Little too Late? Our progress
so far…
• Federal
– Emergent funding for IE via Dept of Industry
– the 2014- 15 Product List and the additional material
streams under the Product Stewardship Act 2011
potentially create an IE system for the resource
recovery industry
• Restructure the existing industry and further increase
secondary material recovery

9. • NSW
– Sustainability Advantage Program
• over 530 participants, saving a combined $85m per year
– IE Business Network Support Grants Program
• $3.6m over 4 years to support medium and larger
businesses across NSW
– Round 1: 6 projects have been awarded in July 2014
– Edge Environment’s office fit out material recycle and
reuse program 2014
• VIC
– Manufacturing Productivity Network Program
• provides up to $600, 000 funding for manufacturing firms
in research and cleantech opportunities

10. • QLD
– Draft QLD Waste Avoidance and Resource
Productivity Strategy 2014- 2024
• recognised IE and planning as one of the strategic
priorities to optimise economic benefits from reuse,
recovery and recycling
– Draft Environmental Protection and Other
Legislation Amendment Bill 2014
• Amendment for the increased recovery of waste materials
under the Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011 reduces
significant regulatory burdens on secondary materials

11. • WA
– Red Tape Reduction 2009 aims to reduce regulatory
burdens on secondary materials
– The Oakajee Industrial Estate Development
• supported by the State Govt
• recognise and integrate IE in its Structure Plan
• SA
– $253m Tonsley Park Redevelopment Project
• The Tonsley Park Redevelopment and General
Section Development Plan Amendment (DPA) was
approved by the Minister of Planning in Dec 2003

12. What is Required for
Success?

13. What Government needs to understand
• Waste does not exist, ONLY RESOURCE!
• Support IE locally as an essential service building
a sustainable economy and maintaining
competitive advantage post mining boom and in
the non- mining states now
• Frame policy in the context of international policies
• Streamline approval process to ease the
administration costs
• Create a broad network of the IE to facilitate and
support interactions between industries

14. Q & A
Thank You