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Climate Emergency in Waste

Presentation to LB Redbridge Members Panel

James Fulford Director – Local Environment Eunomia R&C

11th March 2020

Agenda

• 1. What are other authorities doing
• 2. ELWA
• 3. What can you do?
• 4. The importance of choosing the right

measure

Emissions Performance Standard

• GLA asked in 2010 for an alternative measure

to recycling rates

• Emissions Performance Standard (EPS) looks

at:

– Each borough’s recycling system – Each borough’s recycling performance – What we know about the treatment systems being used in each area

Emissions Performance Standard

What are other Authorities doing?

• Devon

– Look at what achieving a 65% recycling rate AND carbon reduction would look like – What about Carbon Capture and Storage?

• Bristol

– How can the City achieve net zero GHG emissions by 2030?

• LB Hounslow

– What are the pathways to net zero carbon for the whole borough?

What do we find?

• Most of it relates to disposal and recycling

– Landfill is currently worst

• Plastic is critically important

– Even at 65% recycling, there will be loads of this left in the residual waste stream

• Textiles and food come next

What do we recommend?

• Dispose of less – waste prevention
• Maximise recycling
• Target plastics

– High recycling performance – The best possible pre-treatment

• And focus on commercial waste

Vehicles – Beyond Diesel

• Retrofit E-RCVs

– They’ve extended the life of the national fleet – They’ve started to create the market – The financial case isn’t there yet

Vehicles – Beyond Diesel

• True E-RCVs

– More trials are needed, of all aspects – Initial evidence is positive – Charging infrastructure is a consideration

Vehicles – Beyond Diesel

• Hydrogen

– Technology isn’t quite ready – Hydrogen is highly explosive – Hydrogen isn’t yet low carbon

Vehicles – Beyond Diesel

• The benefits?

– Noise – Air quality – Maintenance – And potentially low carbon

What else?

• Good recycling

– Good communications – Wide range of materials collected – We expect support from packaging producers

• Waste prevention

– Deposit Refund? – Litter picks – Promote reusables

Single Use Plastics

• Getting the Council’s Own

House in Order

– Procurement – No disposables

• Helping residents to do

their bit

– Water fountains

• Getting businesses to do

their bit

Single Use Plastics for businesses

• Promoting good

practice

• Water fountains –

again!

• License conditions for

events

Waste Prevention Actions

Choosing the Right Measure

• Net zero or zero(!) carbon… of what?

– The borough’s own activities?

• Scopes 1, 2… and 3?

– Territorial emissions?

• What is the declaration intended to achieve?
• Maybe there’s a better way to be ambitious

Greenhouse Gas Protocol

What does that miss?

A possible alternative challenge

• Net zero of the borough’s scope 1 & 2
• And the Council uses its influence through

purchasing and service delivery to maximise the reduction of other emissions

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ANDREW LAPPAGE, MANAGING DIRECTOR AND JON HASTINGS, HEAD OF STRATEGY & DEVELOPMENT Redbridge Climate Panel 11 March 2020

East London Waste Authority (ELWA)

• ELWA established on 1st April

1986 following abolition of GLC.

• Statutory Joint Waste Disposal

Authority (WDA)

• Two elected Members per

borough make up the Authority

• London Boroughs of Barking

& Dagenham, Havering, Newham and Redbridge

• Constituent Councils are

responsible for waste collection.

• ELWA is responsible for waste

disposal and RRCs.

Objectives – until now

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/framework/

How ELWA delivers services

• 25-year PFI contract signed in 2002; Contractor

(SPV) is ELWA Ltd; Renewi (formerly Shanks) is the Operator

• Governance by eight Members; also through A-

Director on ELWA Ltd, Cllr D Akwaboah

• Approx 450,000 tonnes delivered to ELWA facilities

by the Constituent Councils annually, from over 400,000 households (over 1m residents)

• RRCs x4, MBTs x2, bring sites x600 approx.
• Performance in 2019/20 year-to-date (Jan):

Recycling: Contract 26.5%, Household 28.8% Diversion (from landfill): 99.8%

Jenkins Lane MBT Facility, Newham

Frog Island, MBT Facility, Rainham

2020/21 Budget

Expenditure £m Income £m Staff, support & premises £1.023 PFI Grant £3.991 Contract & supplies £67.760 Bank interest &

• ther

£0.429 Payments to Constituent Councils £3.121 Commercial waste charges £3.023 Capital financing £2.332 Levy £67.488 Contingency & transfer to reserves £0.695 Total £74.931 Total £74.931

2020/21 Levy Apportionment

Delivered Waste RRCs and

• ther

Levy 2020/21 £m £m £m LBBD £10.397 £2.134 £12.531 LBH £12.659 £3.704 £16.363 LBN £16.844 £3.400 £20.244 LBR £14.531 £3.819 £18.350 Total £54.431 £13.057 £67.488

Recycling Performance

0.0% 5.0% 10.0% 15.0% 20.0% 25.0% 30.0% 35.0% 40.0% 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19

Household Reuse & Recycling Rate (NI 192)

Barking and Dagenham Havering Newham Redbridge ELWA

Contract Efficiencies and Improvements

• Reviews of PFI contract and key conclusions

– Commissioned between 2011 to 2014, covering various issues – Limited scope for savings, but some agreed – Early termination financially unviable

• Recent and ongoing work

– Diversion performance is exceptionally high – Considering with Constituent Councils widening material acceptance in recycling streams – Recycling improvements at MBTs, RRCs, transfer stations, mixed recycling contamination

Upcoming Improvements

• Upcoming projects

– Implementation of Resources & Waste Strategy, such as food waste – Increasing reuse at RRCs – Improving recycling rate at RRCs – Capture more recycling from residual waste

• East London Waste Prevention Programme

– Two-year trial approved from 2020-2022 – Three staff, plus a resources and project budget – Complement existing work in the four boroughs – Explore joint working opportunities with neighbouring waste authorities

DEFRA Resources & Waste Strategy

Government’s Key Proposals

• DEFRA - Extended producer

responsibility for packaging

• DEFRA - Introducing a deposit return

scheme

• DEFRA - Ensuring a consistent set of

recycling materials is collected from households and businesses (next slide)

• Treasury – Tax on plastics with less than

30% recycled content

DEFRA’s Consistency Framework

• Kerbside (note green waste too):
• Residual frequency minimum fortnightly

localpartne rships.org. 35

• Multi-stream – source-

segregated dry, food, garden, residual

• 5 stream – separate

fibre, dry mixed, food, garden, residual

• 4 stream – dry mixed,

food, garden, residual

London Environment Strategy

• Published in June 2018, replacing individual

strategies Used European targets, albeit looking at all local authority collected waste (LACW)

• Recycling targets (50% LACW by 2025; 65%

MSW by 2030) and carbon pressures through ULEZ

• ‘Expected’ service standards from the London

Mayor, including separate food and pots/tubs/trays

• Reduction & Recycling Plans (RRPs) – ongoing

process, new cycle from 2020

Objectives - future

http://www.wrap.org.uk/about-us/about/wrap-and-circular-economy

ELJRWS Aims & Objectives

Aims

• To promote and implement sustainable municipal

resources and wastes management policies in East London

• To minimise the overall environmental impacts of

resources and wastes management

• To engage residents, community groups, local

business and any other interested parties in the development and implementation of the above resources and wastes management policies

• To provide customer-focused, cost-effective, best

value services

ELJRWS Aims & Objectives

Objectives

• To minimise the amount of municipal wastes

arising

• To maximise reuse, recycling and composting rates
• To maximise the diversion of resources and wastes

from landfill, particularly organic wastes that would produce greenhouse gases

• To co-ordinate and continuously improve municipal

wastes minimisation and management policies in East London cont/

ELJRWS Aims & Objectives

• To manage municipal wastes in the most

environmentally benign and economically efficient ways possible through the provision and co-

• rdination of appropriate resources and wastes

management facilities and services

• To ensure that services and information are fully

accessible to all members of the community

• To maximise all opportunities for local

regeneration

• To ensure an equitable distribution of costs, so

that those who produce or manage the waste pay for it

ELJRWS Climate Considerations

• Determination of metric to be used

– EPS, WRATE, English carbon tool (upcoming) etc.

• Consideration of priorities

– Waste prevention – Garden waste collection is priority for recycling performance – Textiles are a priority for carbon reduction

• Scope of measurement

– Data on international waste movements and treatment processes harder to source and validate

• Whole systems consideration

– Collection operations and treatment processes

ELWA’s key issues / risks /

• pportunities
• Current performance and cost of services
• Brexit – possible delays at ports / reverse logistics
• Policy / legal change (UK / EU / elsewhere)

– packaging design changes (fewer types of plastic) – demand for packaging material? – funding for Councils (Full Net Cost Recovery)? – consistency of collection services (garden, food and mixed dry recycling)? – materials and energy security? – carbon tax and other legislation for climate change?

• Processing infrastructure (planning / funding)
• Products, materials and process innovation

ANDREW LAPPAGE, MANAGING DIRECTOR AND JON HASTINGS, HEAD OF STRATEGY & DEVELOPMENT 11 March 2020

Thank you