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OECD Modelling Plastics Use Projections Workshop - Julien Boucher
1. Modelling Plastic Leakage in
the Environment
STATE OF THE ART AND OPEN QUESTIONS
OECD
23/06/2020_v1
Julien Boucher, Phd
Julien.boucher@shaping-ea.com
+41 76 (0) 532 57 27
2. 2
Guiding line
1
2
PAST & ONGOING EA WORK
3
CORPORATE/PRODUCT
FOOTPRINTS
4 WHAT’S NEXT ?
REGIONAL PLASTIC POLLUTION
HOTSPOTTING
National Guidance for Plastic Pollution Hotspotting an
8. 8
PAST ONGOING WORK | PLASTIC
RESEARCH
DEVELOPMENT
PILOT
PROJECTS
METHODOLOGICAL
STANDARDS
We have assessed plastic leakage in 30 countries
10 corporate/product plastic
leakage assessment
9. 9
PAST ONGOING WORK | PLASTIC
RESEARCH
DEVELOPMENT
METHODOLOGICAL
STANDARDS
PILOT
PROJECTS
COUNTRY GUIDANCE CORPORATE / PRODUCT GUIDANCE
12. 12
Plastic Leak Project – key questions
Fate
What is the total
leakage along my
value chain?
Where does the
leakage occur
along the value
chain?
Which market is
responsible for
the leakage?
Which products
are contributing
to the leakage?
Which
polymers are
contributing to
the leakage?
Key results Value chain Country Market Product Polymer
How much
plastic will be
remaining
after 1 year?
In which
country does
the leakage
occur?
22. 23
Identifying hotspots through mass balance coupled with leakage
modelling
Waste Import
Import of
products
Production and
Import of
primary
(thousandstonnes/year)
Waste Export
Export of primary
and products
Change in stock
Recycling
Properly managed
Left in open
environment
Leaked to ocean
Improperly managed
INPUT
component
OUTPUT
component
23. 24
Identifying hotspots through mass balance coupled with leakage
modelling
Waste Import
Import of
products
Production and
Import of
primary
(thousandstonnes/year)
Waste Export
Export of primary
and products
Change in stock
INPUT
component
OUTPUT
component
STEP 1
Modelling plastic flows
Trade flows (Commtrade)
Modelling plastic intensity per
product category (Exiobase)
Industry Production data
Modelling based on product lifetime
(Geyer et al. 2017)
1
2
3
4
1
1
2
2
1
3
4
24. 25
Identifying hotspots through mass balance coupled with leakage
modelling
(thousandstonnes/year)
Recycling
Properly managed
Left in open
environment
Leaked to ocean
Improperly managed
INPUT
component
OUTPUT
component
STEP 2
Modelling waste
management
Data collection
PLP
1
2
1
1
1
1
2
25. 26
Identifying hotspots - per POLYMER TYPE
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
4000
4500
LDPE Polyester HDPE PET PP Synthetic Rubber PVC PS Other
thousandtonnes
Polymer Hotspot [Thailand 2018]
HDPE
LDPE
Polyester
PVC
PET
PP
Synthetic
Rubber
11%
6%
8%
7%
5%
Legend
Top 3 contributors to
leakage in absolute OR
relative value
Highest contributors to
leakage in absolute AND
relative value
7%
4%
7%
PS
5%
27. 28
Regional Hotspots
Waste Generation (tonnes)
Waste Collection Rate (%)
Mismanaged Waste Index (%)
(i) Overlaying different
information available at city /
district / sub-district level
and/of modelled through
archetypes…
(ii) … and using geographic,
hydrographic and
demographic information…
(iii) … allows to compute a
leakage map and identify
regional hotspots
Plastic leakage (tonnes)
33. 34
Key areas for improvement
WASTE MANAGEMENT DATA
RELEASE RATE OF MISMANAGED WASTE
(per plastic application/polymer/type of
mismanagement)
IMPORT AND EXPORT OF WASTE PLASTIC
WASTE
LITTERING RATES
RELEASE RATE FOR TYRE DUST
IMPACTS (quantity is not all)
34. 35
Key areas for improvement
WASTE MANAGEMENT DATA
RELEASE RATE OF MISMANAGED WASTE
(per plastic application/polymer/type of
mismanagement)
IMPORT AND EXPORT OF WASTE PLASTIC
LITTERING RATES
RELEASE RATE FOR TYRE DUST
IMPACTS (quantity is not all)
35. 36
Key areas for improvement
WASTE MANAGEMENT DATA
RELEASE RATE OF MISMANAGED WASTE
(per plastic application/polymer/type of
mismanagement)
IMPORT AND EXPORT OF WASTE PLASTIC
LITTERING RATES
RELEASE RATE FOR TYRE DUST
IMPACTS (quantity is not all)
36. 37
Key areas for improvement
WASTE MANAGEMENT DATA
RELEASE RATE OF MISMANAGED WASTE
(per plastic application/polymer/type of
mismanagement)
IMPORT AND EXPORT OF WASTE PLASTIC
WASTE
LITTERING RATES
RELEASE RATE FOR TYRE DUST
IMPACTS (quantity is not all)
37. 38
Key areas for improvement
WASTE MANAGEMENT DATA
RELEASE RATE OF MISMANAGED WASTE
(per plastic application/polymer/type of
mismanagement)
IMPORT AND EXPORT OF WASTE PLASTIC
WASTE
LITTERING RATES
RELEASE RATE FOR TYRE DUST
IMPACTS (quantity is not all)