This document summarizes the work of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and its Solid Waste Initiative to promote sustainable waste management among global cities. It provides an overview of the C40 network and its initiatives to facilitate knowledge sharing on topics like adaptation, energy, finance, and waste management. Specific examples are given of leading cities taking action to reduce emissions from waste, including San Francisco achieving 80% diversion through organics separation and anaerobic digestion, and Milan's clean natural gas collection vehicles. Challenges facing global cooperation on waste are also discussed.
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The C40 Cities
Los Angeles
Madrid
Melbourne
Mexico City
Milan
Moscow
Mumbai
Nairobi
New Orleans
New York
Oslo
Paris
Philadelphia
Portland
Rio de Janeiro
Rome
San Francisco
Santiago
Sao Paulo
Seattle
Seoul
Shanghai
Shenzhen
Singapore
Stockholm
Sydney
Tokyo
Toronto
Vancouver
Venice
Warsaw
Washington, DC
Yokohama
Addis Ababa
Amsterdam
Athens
Austin
Bangkok
Barcelona
Basel
Beijing
Berlin
Boston
Bogota
Buenos Aires
Cairo
Cape Town
Caracas
Changwon
Chicago
Copenhagen
Curitiba
Dar es Salaam
Delhi
Dhaka
Hanoi
Heidelberg
Ho Chi Minh City
Hong Kong
Houston
Istanbul
Jakarta
Johannesburg
Karachi
Lagos
Lima
London
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The Power of the C40
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13. GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
American and European cities have
demonstrated that raising disposal
costs has a direct impact on waste
generation.
14. GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Japan produces approximately
30% less waste per capita than
the United States, despite having
roughly, the same GDP per
capita.
15. CITIES TAKING ACTION
• 1,039 actions in the waste
management sector.
• 65% of climate actions are
transformative.
• 50% on treatment, 40% on waste
reduction and 10% on waste
collection.
• 30% of organics management
actions focus on source separation.
• 86% of C40 cities intend to expand
their waste management
16. SOLID WASTE INITIATIVE
There is a significant opportunity for C40 cities
to reduce emissions from integrated waste
management actions, as cities have the
powers to enact change and there is the
opportunity for still more actions in this area.
Sustainable Waste Systems must be planned,
developed, and operated within the framework
of local resource availability, economics, and
environmental factors.
The Sustainable Solid Waste Systems Network
aims to transform C40 cities’ holistic approach
to waste management through reduction,
improved collection and transportation,
resource and energy recovery, recycling,
organics utilisation, landfill diversion and
alternative disposal.
Sustainable Solid Waste
Systems Network
Climate and Clean Air Coalition
Municipal Solid Waste Initiative
The Climate and Clean Air Coalition is a global
partnership of countries, international organizations,
NGOs, and the private sector, seeking to rapidly
reduce short-lived climate pollutants like black
carbon, methane, and HFCs.
The CCAC launched its Municipal Solid Waste
Initiative with C40 at the Rio+20 conference.
The Initiative seeks to foster partnerships, political
will, and technical capacity that enable cities to
undertake lasting action to mitigate short lived
climate pollutants from the Municipal Solid Waste
sector.
19. SOLID WASTE INITIATIVE
Johannesburg
• Focused on minimisation, recycling
programmes and separation-at-source.
• Converting five landfill sites from flaring to
power generation.
• Learning from other cities to develop policies
and strategies for informal sector issues.
• Community based programs for recycling and
value added recyclables processing.
20. SOLID WASTE INITIATIVE
Rio de Janeiro
• Improving leachate management, increasing
treatment capacity and LFG collection efficiency.
• Pilot program for organics collection.
• Optimizing collection routes to increase service
quality, reduce fuel consumption and associated
GHG emissions.
• Stated goal of increasing recycling efficiency.
Looking at technology and community based
approaches.
21. SOLID WASTE INITIATIVE
San Francisco
• 2013: 80% diversion
• Focus on organics: Food waste, garden waste
mandatory separation on households and businesses
• Successful Public Private Partnership for waste
services: RECOLOGY
• Mandatory collection fees
• Progressing on product bans
• International outreach and networking: collaborating
with C40 Cities of Milan, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles,
Sao Paulo on Anaerobic Digestion for MSW,
composting, public outreach, etc.
22. SOLID WASTE INITIATIVE
London
• LWARB: invests in waste related projects on a
commercial basis.
• City Wide focus: key infrastructure,
communication campaigns, service delivery
and regional development
• Main goals: Reduction, recycling, sustainability
• Innovations: Food waste reduction
programme, London Reuse Network,
Commercial / Environmental focus.
• Targets: Household Recycling / composting to
45% by 2015, 50% by 2020 and 60% by 2031
23. SOLID WASTE INITIATIVE
Milano
• 1,200 household collection vehicles.
30% running on clean CNG.
• Best integration of recyclables recovery,
organics processing and energy recovery.
• Successful implementation of
transparent bag program for residuals
collection.
• Segregated organics collection operating
in 42% of the City by 2013.
25. CHALLENGES
• LANGUAGE BARRIERS
• CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND AWARENESS
• STAFF AVAILABILITY
• COMMUNICATION AND CONNECTIVITY
INFRASTRUCTURE
• WASTE IS NOT SHINY
NETWORK ACTIVITIES