Repak

Greening the Economy

Role of Waste Market

Darrell Crowe – Repak

Contents

• Waste Market Market Evolution

• Trends/Opportunities in Waste

• Producer Responsibility

• Repak – delivering real change

• Summary

Waste Collection Market

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Value of Market

Source : Forfas Report October 2008

4,500 directly employed in waste market

Recycling rates growing

Source: EPA Waste database report 2008

Legislation has been driver of

recycling

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Source : EPA NWDR

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How

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75%

Exported

Major Players in the market

• Greenstar

– Veolia

• Mr Binman

• Thorntons

• Greyhound

• Oxigen

• Panda

• Irish Packaging

recycling

• AES

• Dublin LA’s

• DCC, DLR, SDC, FC

Characteristics of Waste Market

• Large Valuable Market

• Collection market saturated/fragmented –

Consolidating

• Focus away from collection – extracting value from

waste

• Recycling rates still opportunity to grow

• Driver is Legislation /Regulatory Compliance

• Hampered by lack of clear government Policy

• Investment in Market is mainly by Irish Companies

• Investment costs becoming barrier to entry

Opportunities in Waste

• Waste collection/services– Private/public

• Provision of waste facilities– Landfill

– Waste to Energy

– Waste Processing

– Outlets for RDF

• Landfill opportunities – build manage and operate

– After care/remediation

– Energy recovery from landfills

– Mining of old landfills ?

• Waste treatment facilities

• Recycling of Organic

Waste

• Waste to Energy– Energy from Waste (EfW)

– Gasification

– Anerobic Digestion

– Pyrolysis

– Secondary fuels

• Bio Fuel

• RDF

• Waste Wood into fuels

• Waste processing equipment

supply/maintenance

• Consultancy services– Regulatory compliance

– Environmental impact assessments

– Environmental reports

– Environmental audits

• IPPC licences, ISO 14001

Recycling

Why has it Grown ?

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Recycling Costs

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Who Pays?

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Producer responsibility

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Irish Legislation

Irish Waste Management (Packaging) Regulations

Self comply

- Register LA

Join Compliance

Scheme - RepakOR

Turnover > €1m Place More than 10 tonnes of

packaging on market pa

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If any Business has ?

Must help fund the recycling of the packaging they supply

Then

Repak

How does it work ?

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Charge

universal

packaging

Levies

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Making

Recycling

commercially

viable

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Repak’sReach into our daily lives

€200m

recycling funding

2,300 businesses

10,000 premises

1 million Kerbside

Collections

2,000 bring banks 100 recycling centres Education

Repak Grows Packaging

Recycling Over a 12yr. Period

Source : Repak Returns

Landfill Levy PBW/UNew

RegsOriginal Regs

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RepakAchievements since 1998

65% packaging

recycling

644,000 tonnes

recycled ‘095.0m tonnes

diverted

from landfill

2.1m trucks260,000 tonnes

saved annually 8th in EU

Packaging Recycling Targets

Source: EPA Waste database 2008

2001 tgt

2005 tgt

2011 tgt

Packaging Recycling driving

overall MSW recycling

Source : EPA NWDR

Landfill Levy PBW/U WEEE RegsWMPR

Ireland is in top quarter of EU states re

recycling packaging

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Recycling and Recovery Rate for Packaging Waste 2007

Recycling Rate

Recovery

Recycling

Targets

Repak

Promoting Packaging recycling

Sponsorships

Summary• Waste collection markets in growth/maturity phase

• Recycling still in infancy/early growth

• Opportunities in Waste

– Recycling, Infrastructure/Equipment

supply, Processing, Waste to Energy, primary processing

– Environmental services

• Repak - Not for Profit producer responsibility scheme

– Is driving and investing in Recycling

– Is help to change us to a recycling nation

• Producer Responsibility expanding and working well

– Packaging, Farms Films, WEEE, Batteries

• Investment costs becoming barrier to entry