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Extracting Value from Waste

Extracting Value from Waste. The Drive to Resource Recovery. Steve Bell Navigant Consulting Global multi-disciplined consultancy with a breadth of knowledge, skills and experience focused on project management, analytical expertise and local delivery including:. “.

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Extracting Value from Waste

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  1. Extracting Value from Waste The Drive to Resource Recovery

  2. Steve BellNavigant ConsultingGlobal multi-disciplined consultancy with a breadth of knowledge, skills and experience focused on project management, analytical expertise and local delivery including: “ • Public services and procurement • Management consultancy • Construction advice • Financial services and advice • Energy • Disputes and investigations ”

  3. Recycling for the Future • Can we learn lessons from the past? • Folkestone and Shepway • Organic processing • Material Recovery Facilities (MRF) • Energy Recovery Facilities

  4. Drivers • Costs • Landfill Tax • Legislation • Recycling rates • Carbon reduction • Greenhouse Gas • Recycling culture • Landfill void • Socio economic • Composition change

  5. Concept and ApproachesMore of the Same

  6. Extracting Value from Waste • Collection regimes • Participation and recognition • Infrastructure development • More energy from waste • C&I MRFs and SRF production • Anaerobic digestion and compost • Economies of scale • Re-processors and secondary markets • Working together

  7. Working Together • Collection, recovery and re-processors • Shepwayand Dover collection contract • Public and private sector • South Tyne and Wear • BDR – Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham • Welsh hubs for EfW and AD procurement • Somerset recycling collections • Cornwall collection contract • Community sector

  8. Plastic Recycling Recoup Non bottle plastic - WRAP research Re- processors required – apply here Overseas markets Biffa Polymers at Wilton, Teesside – recycling and compounding German PET recycling back to food grade PET

  9. Energy Recovery • Energy from Waste • Plant efficiency • Gasification • Bottom ash recycling and metal recovery • APCr recycling • Combined Heat and Power • Solid Recovered Fuel (RDF) • C&I Material Recovery Facilities • Mechanical Pre-treatment (MPT) Facilities • Gas to the grid from Anaerobic Digestion

  10. Specific ExamplesEmbrace New Technology

  11. Nappy Recycling Knowaste (Canada) in Birmingham 36,000 tpa disposable nappies Customers - OCS/Cannon Hygiene, PHS All Clear and Initial Rentokill Autoclave, sterilisation, chemical treatment Plastics to re-processor Organic dried and to energy recovery Effluent to sewer

  12. Gulley Waste • F M Conway, Dartford • Gulley and other “wet” waste • 30,000tpa from gulley cleaning operations • 60% solids and 40% water • Water cleaned and re-used on site in washing plant • Aggregate and sand washed and cleaned • Organic for compost • Metals recycled • Street sweepings

  13. End of Life Plastics to Diesel • Waste plastic • Diesel, kerosene, gasoline, gases, char • Partnership SITA UK and Cynar • Mini petro-chemical plant – 6,000tpa • 1t of plastic produces 700l of diesel • Avonmouth, Autumn 2012

  14. Landfill • Void space – 2018 • Landfill mining • Technical and commercial challenges • Nottingham shire Recycling (Kiverton Park) • Inert landfill – washing and screening for aggregates and metal • Hasselt in eastern Belgium (Advanced Plasma Power) • Metal and aggregate extraction • Energy recovery • Energy crops from Compost Like Output • Landfill gas to collection vehicles

  15. Conclusions and Key Messages Lessons from the past Working together to drive change More of the same Embrace new technologies and opportunities Waste to recycling and resource recovery

  16. Extracting Value from Waste The Drive to Resource Recovery stephen.bell@navigant.com Tel: 07825 553436

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