EU Action Plan for a circular econom y H2 0 2 0 Exam ples Carm en - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

4th ICSSWM Limassol, Cyprus, June 23rd 2016

Carm en Mena Abela Head of H2020 Eco-innovation Sector

EU Action Plan for a circular econom y H2 0 2 0 Exam ples

Content

• EASME
• Policy Drivers – Waste Legislative proposals
• Policy Implementation – H2020
• Examples of Waste Innovation Actions

EASME's role

Evaluations GAP Monitoring Networking Policy feedback

Content

• EASME
• Policy Drivers – W aste Legislative

Proposals

• Policy Implementation
• Examples
• Forward Looking

From a Linear Econom y…

DI SPOSE MAKE TAKE NATURAL RESOURCES

W ASTE W ASTE W ASTE

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• lost value of materials and products
• scarcity of resources and unstable supply of raw materials
• volatile prices of resources
• w aste generation
• environm ental degradation & clim ate change

…to a Circular Econom y to

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• maintain the value of products, materials

and resources in the economy for as long as possible

• alleviate security of supply risks to

European Industries

• boost the econom y by up to + 7% GDP
• Increase com petitiveness, creating new

business opportunities, and introducing innovative products and services

• create jobs in the EU
• reduce w aste generation, GHG em issions

and other environmental impacts

Concrete actions – som e exam ples

• Review of EU waste legislation (align actors' interests in the value chain)
• Prom ote eco-design to include reparability, durability, recyclability
• Independent test program on planned obsolescence
• Spread best practices on waste management and resource efficiency in

industry and local authorities

• Further promote Green Public Procurem ent
• Develop quality standards for secondary raw m aterials
• Review of EU fertilisers legislation incl. to promote organic fertilisers
• Strategy on links between chem icals, products and w aste

legislation

• Minimum requirements for the reuse of w astew ater
• Make use of available EU funding

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Priority sectors

Biom ass & Bio-based Products Plastics Food W aste Construction & Dem olition Critical Raw Materials

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W hy is action needed?

42% 6% 2% 4% 9% 36% Deposit onto or into land Land treatment and release into water bodies Incineration/disposal Incineration/energy recovery Backfilling Recycling 10

• low levels of recycling
• high levels of landfilling
• incineration of

recyclable waste

• loss of valuable materials
• negative impacts on land,

water and climate

• no long-term targets

Other key provisions

• MS to put in place econom ic instrum ents to promote

waste hierarchy + general requirem ents for EPR

• By-products and end-of-w aste status (conditions

unchanged; more active role for MS to apply them)

• Possible exem ption from registration requirem ent for

companies collecting/ transporting non-hazardous waste

• Reinforced w aste prevention m easures (e.g. on food

waste + industrial, mining and construction, setting waste prevention targets at national level, etc.)

• MS to ensure separate collection of bio-w aste
• MS to promote sorting system s for C&D w aste
• Simplification of reporting and ensuring better data
• MS to set electronic registries on hazardous waste data

Conclusion & Potential gains

• Resource efficiency – Industries spend 40 % costs on

raw materials, to be compared to a share of 20 % for labour costs.

• Resource productivity increase 30% by 2030.
• Boost EU GDP by up to 3.9 % by creating new markets

and new products and creating value for business.

• Net savings of €600 billion, or 8 % of annual turnover

for businesses in the EU,

• Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2-4 % / year
• Eco-industries and eco-innovation employment
• increase. Green technologies as competitive

advantage.

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Content

• EASME
• Policy Drivers
• Policy I m plem entation
• Examples
• Forward Looking

I nnovation & I nvestm ent

I nnovation

• Horizon 2020

initiative launched on ‘I ndustry 2 0 2 0 in the Circular Econom y’ (EUR 650 million)

• LIFE

Regional Policy

• European

Structural and Investment Funds

I nvestm ent

• EFSI
• new platform for

financing Circular Economy with European Investment Bank and national promotional banks

Overcom ing barriers

• pilot

‘innovation deals’ to address potential regulatory

• bstacles for

innovators

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Content

• EASME
• Policy Drivers
• Policy Implementation
• Exam ples
• Forward Looking

RESYNTEX A new circular econom y concept: from textile w aste tow ards chem ical and textile industries feedstock

Coordinator: SOEX Group GmbH, Germany EC contribution: 9,1 Meuro

w w w .resyntex.eu

BAMB Buildings as Material Banks: I ntegrating Materials Passports w ith Reversible Building Design to Optim ise Circular I ndustrial Value Chains

Coordinator: I BGE, BE EC contribution: 8 ,9 Meur

w w w .bam b2 0 2 0 .eu/

CABRI S I m plem entation of a CirculAr econom y Based on Recycled, reused and recovered I ndium , Silicon and Silver m aterials for photovoltaic and

• ther applications

Coordinator: CEA, FR EC contribution: 7 ,8 Meuro w w w .spire2 0 3 0 .eu/ c abriss/

Photo courtesy of PV Cycle

DECI SI VE A DECentralI zed m anagem ent Schem e for I nnovative Valorization of urban biow astE Coordinator: I RSTEA, FR EC contribution: 7 ,6 Meur

Source: http: / / www.r-urban-wick.net/

URBANREC New approaches for the valorisation of URBAN bulky w aste into high added value RECycled products Coordinator: AI MPLAS, Spain EC contribution: 8 ,4 Meur

W ASTE4 THI NK Moving tow ards Life Cycle Thinking by integrating Advanced W aste Managem ent System s Coordinator: Fundación Deusto, Spain EC contribution: 8 ,8 Meur

Content

• EASME
• Policy Drivers
• Policy Implementation
• Examples
• Forw ard Looking

More info on Horizon 2 0 2 0 : ec.europa.eu/ program m es/ horizon2 0 2 0 @EU_ ecoinno ec.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTI ON

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Carm en Mena-Abela (Head of Sector) H2020 Environment and Resources Carmen.Mena-Abela@ec.europa.eu