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Circular Economy for Plastics 2015
This document discusses moving towards a circular economy for plastics. It outlines the current challenges with different types of plastic packaging, including flexible films and laminated plastics which have poor recycling infrastructure. For rigid bottles and containers, it notes there is infrastructure but no incentives for brands to use recycled content. It proposes solutions like advanced sorting technology, harmonized collection, and incentives to increase recycling rates and use of recycled materials. Overall the document advocates for systems changes, new business models, improved reverse logistics, and designing packaging for circularity.
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- 1. CIRCULAR ECONOMY FOR PLASTICS INDUSTRYPERSPECTIVE MARCH 2015 LOUIS LINDENBERG THE DUTCH CENTRE
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- 3. Improving Health &Well-being Enhancing Livelihoods Reducing Environmental Impacts HEALTH& HYGIENE NUTRITION GREENHOUSE GASES WATER WASTE SUSTAINABLE SOURCING BETTER LIVELIHOODS Reduce diarrhoeal disease Improve heart health Improve oral health Improve self-esteem Provide safe drinking water Reduce salt Reduce saturated fat Remove trans fat Reduce sugar Reduce calories Reduce GHG from skin cleansing & hair washing Reduce GHG from washing clothes Reduce GHG from manufacturing Reduce GHG from transport Reduce GHG from refrigeration Reduce water use in agriculture Reduce water use in laundry process Reduce water use in skin cleansing & hair washing Reduce water use in manufacturing Recycle packaging Tackle sachet waste Eliminate PVC Reduce waste from manufacturing Reuse packaging Reduce packaging Sustainable palm oil Sustainable paper & board Sustainable tea Sustainable fruit & vegetables Sustainable soy Sustainable cocoa Help smallholder farmers Support micro- entrepreneurs Sustainable sugar, sunflower oil, rapeseed oil & dairy Provide healthy eating information Our thinking then
- 4. MORE WASTE More PeopleMore Consumption More Packaging
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- 6. Packaging Sustainability From… To… CircularEconomy design Today’s and tomorrow’s technology Business solution for Sachet waste a corporate priority Focused recycling effort on specific materials in relevant geographies Renewed waste ambition Many packs not recyclable Today’s technology Sachets a risk Small scale approach to recycling
- 7. GAME CHANGING TECHNOLOGY Develop reductionand regenerative technologies which are radical TRANSFORMING MARKETS Open up technologies to move the entire industry Packaging Sustainability DESIGN FOR CIRCULAR ECONOMY Move from product design to systems design RECYCLING & RECOVERY Collaborate for maximum value – businesses, the environment and society Resource reduction & next use strategic thrusts
- 8. Packaging Sustainability FLEXIBLE FILMSAND LAMINATED FILMS • Poor to no infrastructure • Some mono-layer materials are recycled • At best end up in waste 2 energy • Very little investment in industry solutions RIGID / SEMI RIGID CONTAINERS • Fair infrastructure • Most cascaded into lower value propositions • No common industry drive to generate find harmony • NO INCENTIVE for brands to develop / re-use recycled content RIGID BOTTLES • Good infrastructure • PET & HDPE highly collected • More can be done on B2B to improve circularity • NO INCENTIVE for brands to re-use recycled content Our perspective on the current situation
- 9. Packaging Sustainability RIGID BOTTLES • Good infrastructure • PET & HDPE highly collected • More can be done on B2B to improve circularity • NO INCENTIVE for brands to re-use recycled content What can be done • Increased consumer messaging (public & private) • Investment in advanced sorting technology • Colour batching • Circular rather than cascading • Consider financial mechanisms to incentivise the use of recycled content
- 10. Packaging Sustainability RIGID /SEMI RIGID CONTAINERS • Fair infrastructure • Most cascaded into lower value propositions • No common industry drive to generate find harmony • NO INCENTIVE for brands to develop / re-use recycled content What can be done • Harmonious nationwide collection • Investment in advanced sorting technology • Investment in developing higher quality recyclates • Consider financial mechanisms to incentivise the use of recycled content • Increased consumer messaging (public & private)
- 11. Packaging Sustainability FLEXIBLE FILMSAND LAMINATED FILMS • Poor to no infrastructure • Some mono-layer materials are recycled • At best end up in waste 2 energy • Very little investment in industry solutions What can be done • Invest in high output value technologies i.e. chemical recycling • Investment in sorting technology – mono, multi and composite materials • Intense consumer messaging campaigns • Incentives to use maximum amounts of recyclates • Public / private “discovery” schemes
- 12. Systems conditions - conflictinglegislation, - conflicting infrastructure, - conflicting messaging New business models - financing mechanisms, - collaborations, - supply-chain Reverse logistics - EPR & Kerbside collection, - Retailers collection, - Consumer habits Designing for circularity - material choices, - combinations, - disassembly
- 13. The Circular Economy in the AsiaPacific Region www.keepasiabeautiful.org