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Recycling Funding: Impacts and Opportunities for Your Clients

Recycling Funding: Impacts and Opportunities for Your Clients. April 18, 2011 John F. Katers. Background and Experience. 1999 - Current Associate Professor, Natural and Applied Sciences (Engineering), UW-Green Bay 1995 - 1999 Commodity Specialist for the Wisconsin RMDB

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Recycling Funding: Impacts and Opportunities for Your Clients

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  1. Recycling Funding:Impacts and Opportunities for Your Clients April 18, 2011 John F. Katers

  2. Background and Experience • 1999 - Current • Associate Professor, Natural and Applied Sciences (Engineering), UW-Green Bay • 1995 - 1999 • Commodity Specialist for the Wisconsin RMDB • Recycling Specialist for UW-Extension • 1993 • Master’s thesis on “The Economics of Recycling in Wisconsin” • Recently asked by WNDR to revisit this topic • Funding provided by the UW System SWRC

  3. Summary of the Opportunity Waste is often a material in the wrong form Waste = MISPLACED RESOURCE Waste = ENERGY Recycling is a small component in the overall system Potential sources - Municipal - Industrial - Agricultural (manure, bioenergy, etc.) Opportunities - Increased landfill tip fee in Wisconsin ($7.10/ton) - Local resource assessments (waste sheds) - Aggregation of wastes

  4. Example: Brown County Waste Transformation Initiative (BCWTI) PROJECT BACKGROUND • A significant amount of organic materials are generated annually in Brown County • Dairy Farms – “Dairy Donut” of Wisconsin • Meatpackers • Rendering facilities • Municipal wastewater treatment plants • Paper mill residuals • Others materials • The cost of managing these materials has been increasing

  5. BCWTI (cont.) • There have been significant environmental impacts associated with current management practices • Surface water quality (nutrients) • Ground water quality (pathogens, nitrogen, etc.) • Air quality / odor • Opportunities exist to better manage these materials • Need to get key stakeholders involved • Economies of scale exist • These projects can be a win-win for the community and the environment

  6. BCWTI Stakeholders • Brown County Land Conservation Department • Green Bay Metropolitan Sewerage District • Appleton Sewerage District • JBS Packerland • American Foods Group • Sanimax • AgVentures • Daanen and Jansen • FEECO • ENCAP • UW-Green Bay • Wisconsin DNR

  7. BCWTI Results to Date • Financial contributions of $250,000 from stakeholders • 2. AFG constructed an anaerobic digester • Utilizing “waste” from other generators • 3. Green Bay Metropolitan Sewerage District considered several options for a planned system upgrade for 2014 • “Economic Engine” for the region • Potential marketing/sales of biosolids through ENCAP • Business relationship established between AgVentures and ENCAP

  8. Local Resources • UW-Green Bay • Undergraduate program • in Environmental Science • Graduate program in • Environmental Science and Policy • Faculty involved in research related to waste • management and resource recovery • VIDEO – UWGB, FEECO, ENCAP Collaboration • http://blog.uwgb.edu/inside/index.php/featured/leading-learning/03/16/making_wonders_out_of_waste/

  9. Wisconsin Waste Management Hierarchy • Reduce • Reuse • Recycle • Compost • Energy recovery • Land disposal • Burning without energy recovery

  10. Reduce • Waste Minimization / Pollution Prevention • Education • Maintenance • Product design decisions • Raw material selection • Non-toxic • Renewable • Abundant • Locally available • Process changes PROCESS EFFICIENCY!

  11. Reuse - Tosca • Refurbish beer barrels and cheese boxes • Food Tech — Keg ER — History.com Videos#keg-er • Currently working with Tosca on an LCA • Being driven by the likes of Wal-Mart

  12. Wisconsin’s Recycling Law Wisconsin Act 335 • Landfill/incineration bans • Grants to “Responsible Units” • Grants tied to “Effective Recycling Programs” • Product regulations • Newsprint

  13. Wisconsin’s Recycling Law (cont.) 1991 Lead acid batteries, appliances, waste oil (except energy recovery) 1993 Yard Waste 1995 Aluminum containers, steel containers, glass containers, bimetal containers (steel/aluminum), plastic containers, corrugated paper, magazines, office paper, newspapers, foam polystyrene and waste tires *Bans later lifted for 3-7 plastics

  14. What is a Responsible Unit? • Local unit of government responsible for implementing recycling programs • County, city, town, township, village or Indian Tribe • Original intent was to have 72 RUs • Nearly 900 in 1992 • Over 1000 in 2010 • Some consolidation has occurred • Outagamie County • Tri-county agreement (Brown, Outagamie and Winnebago Counties) • Share landfills, recycling facilities, HHW services

  15. What is an Effective Recycling Program • Defined by NR544 • Several required components • Public information/education program • Recycling ordinance as specified in NR544.06 • Recycling collection system • Prohibition on disposal or burning • Compliance assurance plan (8/1/06) • Provisions to manage waste under the highest feasible priority • Recordkeeping • Annual report

  16. Recycling Funding • RU Grants • Covered 30-40% of operating costs • Eliminated under the current budget proposal • Landfill bans would also be eliminated • Recycling Development Grants • Planning Grants (RMDB) • Low Interest Loans (RMDB) • Demonstration grants (WDNR) • Research Grants (UW System) Only UW System Grants remain (2-3/year)

  17. Composting – City of Appleton • Biosolids and Yard Waste

  18. Incineration / Combustion • Barron County • CHP Project with Saputo Cheese

  19. Incineration / Combustion • Oneida Seventh Generation Project • Proposed gasification project • 150 tons/day of MSW • Currently meeting significant local opposition • Issues • Impact on the BOW agreement • Potential Loss of Brown County’s largest solid waste customer

  20. Landfills • Large shift away from municipally owned landfills • Now less than 15% in Wisconsin • Landfills are getting larger • Energy recovery opportunities • CHP not common • Potential Issues • Loss of other solid waste services • Education • HHW • Sharps collection

  21. Opportunities • Recycling is a small component of the overall solid waste management system, but may provide a reason to contact clients • Integrated Solid Waste Management • Think about the overall waste management hierarchy and how that applies to our clients • Efficiency • Current need for municipalities to reduce costs • Program changes – contract reviews, collection changes, material changes, reduction in education • Consolidation • Program elimination

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