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ACOR is a national peak representative body for the recycling and resource recovery industry in Australia. It lobbies governments for policies that support recycling organizations and advises its members. Key barriers to increasing packaging recycling include packaging design, lack of investment in infrastructure, and the fact that some packaging is not recyclable. Current trends in packaging design focus on life cycle assessments, while recycling trends involve new technologies. Regulatory trends are moving towards internalizing externalities and requiring design for recovery of packaging materials. International trends, like China's circular economy law, will have major impacts and require local infrastructure and policy changes to support a transition to a circular materials economy.
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Packaging recovery final gm
- 1. Packaging Recycling: Current and future trends Grant Musgrove ACOR E-mail: grantm@acor.org.au
- 2. About ACOR • Formed in 1983 • A national peak representative body for the recycling and resource recovery industry –any organisation can join, only one LGA which is odd • Our core business o Lobbying governments for policies and regulations that support organisations in the recycling and resource recovery industry o Advising our members on what’s going to happen next! • >80% of all recycling activity • >30 million tonnes p.a. • 40,000+ jobs and growing grantm@acor.org.au
- 3. Key barriers to increasing recovery and recycling of packaging 1. Packaging design 2. Manufacturer’s resistance 3. Lack of supply chain alignment 4. Lack of investment/ infrastructure 5. Landfill costs 6. Uncertainties of regulatory standards 7. Regulatory failures 8. Increasing complexity of packaging 9. Increasingly packaging is not recyclable/recoverable 10. Lack of end-of-life markets/ price grantm@acor.org.au
- 4. The “old” waste hierarchy • This is linear, not circular, but a useful intermediate /transitional framework grantm@acor.org.au
- 5. Current direction of packaging design trends Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) grantm@acor.org.au
- 6. Current direction of packaging resource recovery trends grantm@acor.org.au
- 8. Age of new materials Institutional Change Technological change uneven Packaging Recycling Technological developments Time grantm@acor.org.au
- 9. Regulatory trends Externalities being internalised grantm@acor.org.au
- 11. Design for recovery • Material information • Progressive reduction of contaminants • More effective sorting • Easy dismantling – not using multiple polymers or mixing different types of materials that cannot be separated grantm@acor.org.au
- 12. Future trends – International context grantm@acor.org.au
- 13. Future packaging resource recovery trends – International context • In 2009 China passed new law to form a Circular Economy • Major strategic importance – if successful will set a new level for global competitiveness • Part of the law is a Packaging Master Plan comprising of legislation that will restrict, recover, recycle and reuse all packaging materials. • “Green Wall/Fence/hedgerow- in Chinglish • Contaminated plastic imports being stopped by customs grantm@acor.org.au
- 14. A Time Bomb by 2025.. +47% Old Style Contemporary packaging grantm@acor.org.au
- 15. Future pathway of packaging waste? Sustainability of current system? grantm@acor.org.au 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 In$million Waste Exports Paper Glass Plastics
- 16. Big Changes • Price volatility+ divergence + scarcity • Just the beginning, as developing countries deal with their own packaging time bombs • Need for local reprocessing infrastructure support from government • Made to be made again, design for recovery/ M&A of supply chain • Deployment of information technology • Policy/ regulatory agenda change for a circular materials economy grantm@acor.org.au
- 17. ACOR ACOR will continue to advise our members and governments and our members on these transformations grantm@acor.org.au
Editor's Notes
- 1 LGA
- Packaging design unnecessary complexity of packaging undermines supply chain alignment and resource recoveryManufacturer’s resistance to improving design for end-of-life recovery due to:encourage increased consumption manufacturers don’t always benefit economically from changing the design to be more recyclableLCA’s can be used to justify cost minimisation (pouches).Not the business model of the futureLack of investment/infrastructurecollection systems/ source separationLandfill costs may be cheaper in some areas than recyclingUncertaintiesin recycling standards and regulationsRegulatory failure different jurisdictions have different regulations and policy frameworks. Increasing complexity of packaging multiple materials used in one productcomposites and fixtures contaminating the resource streamconstraining government recycling targets. Increasingly packaging is not recyclable/recoverableLack of end-of-life marketsestablishment of value recovery chains for recycled materialsLack of supply chain alignment manufacturing and recovery facilitiesSYSTEMS thinking
- Used by Government and industryAll resources are inherently limitedAvoidance=cost minimisation should not be at the expense of viable recovery optionsIts not going to work
- 9 layers, diversity of chemistry
- Amortize plant and equipment, not financially viableNeeds to be made to be made againThe rapid pace of change in packaging technology requires changes in resource recovery and recycling technologies, many of which require amortisation over 10-25 years which is not commercially realistic.
- Negative externalities, prices not telling the truth! Regulatory trends wrestling with how to internalise and recover resourcePackaging Product Stewardship the shared responsibility across the packaging supply chainADF’s and EPR negative externalities being internalised APC’s Strategic Plan : packaging industry regulatory creep if not fulfilled.Advance disposal fees for non recyclable/recoverable packagingCorporate social license to operateDriven by environmental concerns, not resource recovery
- Regulatory trends1-4 system binsWaste levies $35-$125 tonne ex QldPlastic bag bans coming inCDL, cash for containers S.A and N.T, Vic?CDL allows jurisdictions to accept or reject new containers based on packaging material or design.Ban of land filling of packaging materials.Recovery/ recycling targets set
- Made to be made again is the biggest problem/ challenge/ business opportunityCocaCola Company statement in Circular Economy 2 p. 66 “We [as a consumer good community] need to make sure that more of the materials we put on to the market have value to encourage the circular economy approach; too many today are difficult to recycle or contaminate existing recycling streams.
- No recycling in residential areasContaminated shipments being refusedMust be a licensed recyclerRecyclers being bannedState media being used
- Why is China doing this?USD $10,000 per annum middle class= packaging exponential growthSocial stabilityPollutionLitterBRIC’sEstimate based on the comparison of low-income countries or population segment (e.g., India) and middle/high income countries and segments (e.g., US)SOURCE: World Bank. Ellen MacArthur Foundation circular economy team
- Paper, Plastics exports up and up: but going to china!!!!!!!!!!!They only want the good stuffSick of being a toxic dump for the worldNote glass, LCA, cost reduction, light weighting issue, lost resource at design phasehttp://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Products/4602.0.55.005~2013~Main+Features~Australia%27s+International+Trade+in+Waste?OpenDocument