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Kent Resource Partnership The Power of Partnerships

Delivering a solution for black plastics recycling

Mark Caul Sustainability Manager Mark.caul@Tesco.com

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Tesco

440,000 colleagues £51 billion Sales 6800 shops around the world 1929 First Store

• pened

2010 Worlds first zero carbon store 80 million shopping trips per week 10 countries

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The Kent Resource Partnership

Fresher for Longer Initiative in 2012

(INCPEN, PackFed, BRC, FDF, WRAP)

Collaborated on the first black plastics detection project in 2012 Pledge 4 Plastics Comms Programme

(RECOUP, Retailers, waste management companies and reprocessors)

Metal Matters campaign across Kent (twice!)

(MRFs, Alupro, metal cans and aerosols sector)

Long History of demonstrating the value of public-private partnership

The first (and only) collective council as a resource partnership

(‘cutting edge rename: ‘Resource Partnership’)

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The Power of Partnership

• The KRP was a founding member of the Resource Association in 2011 and continues to have a role in the
• rganisation, and in supporting the ‘quality agenda’ when it comes to recycling.
• Today’s audience of public and private sector colleagues coming together is itself a demonstration of the

power of partnerships, and the KRP’s ongoing ability to pull people together.

• The KRP’s focus on providing full and transparent data on reporting End Destinations of Recyclates through

the EDR Charter continues to demonstrate leadership to other councils up and down the country.

• The enduring partnership working between the 13 Kent councils – involving all 12 districts and the County

Council – is now ‘business as usual’ to you, but it remains ‘business unusual’ to much of the rest of the country.

• The partnership remains a unique opportunity for further retailer collaboration.

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Tesco: Packaging Strategy

Leadership Team Ownership - Data – Targets – Reporting - Action

Brilliant basics

Helpful Educate Fit for purpose Legal and safe

Efficiency & Cost

Efficiency Optimisation Buy for less Cost Mitigation

Sustainability

Our ambition is to move towards a progressively closed loop system for packaging

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Leadership Team Sign off on our Ambition:

Part of the Little Helps Plan and on our website

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Tesco - Packaging

321,000 Tonnes

• wn brand primary

packaging Represents circa 2.8% of total packaging placed

• n the UK market

Year Widely recyclable Check Locally Recyclable with bags at larger stores Widely recyclable at recycling points Not yet recycled Total Recyclable 2015 65.4% 12.7% n/a n/a 21.9% 78.1% 2016 79.9% 3.9% 9.5% 2.0% 4.7% 95.3% 2017 82.8% 5.6% 7.1% 1.8% 2.6% 97.3%

0.0 5.0 10.0 15.0 20.0 25.0 30.0 35.0 40.0 45.0 20072008200920102011201220132014201520162017 Year

Business Packaging Reduction

(Total Foods, GM and Clothing Reduction for UK and NI, accounting for sales growth)

Average Weight Per Pa (g)

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Tesco - Packaging

0.0 5.0 10.0 15.0 20.0 25.0 30.0 35.0 40.0 45.0 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Year

Business Packaging Reduction

(Total Foods, GM and Clothing Reduction for UK and NI, accounting for sales growth)

Average Weight Per Pack (g)

Circa 34% reduction achieved to date

(Subject to end year verification and audit)

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Sustainable packaging design Remove Reuse Re-design Customers Use Reuse Return Recover & collect Standardise Stores Recycle Recycled content Repurpose Closed-loop Eliminate waste We believe there is a unique opportunity to lead the creation of a closed loop for packaging in the UK. We will support a circular economy

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Customers Use Reuse Return Recover & collect Inside out Standardise Stores

• Deposit Returns
• Front of Store Recycling
• Head Office/Store canteens
• Consumer Education
• On Pack Recycling Logos

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Recycle Recycled content Repurpose

BLACK PLASTIC S

January - March 2017

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Recycle Recycled content Repurpose

BLACK PLASTIC S

http://www.recoup.org/news/7531/black-plastic-packaging-recycling-forum

March 2017

• A cross-industry working group created

(trade associations, retailers, independent specialists, material re- processors, packaging companies, brands and packers)

• Collaboration across the chain

(agreed a range of new actions and commitments to tackle black plastics).

• Roadmap was created to review:
• Detectable pigment dyes
• Impact of removing black from the packaging portfolio
• Assess new technologies to sort existing black polymers

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Recycle Recycled content Repurpose

BLACK PLASTIC S

Circa October 2017

• Retailers assess the commercial impact of using detectable pigments
• Cost was a magnitude order higher than what was reported in the press
• Decision was taken to use detectable pigment and retailers commenced

plans to use and roll out.

• These plans were to be reported to the RECOUP working group prior to

launch.

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Recycle Recycled content Repurpose

BLACK PLASTIC S

November 2017

Working Group Conclusions

• Detectable pigment dyes

Risk that using detectable pigments would mean that PET trays would contaminate the PET bottle stream.

• Impact of removing black from the packaging portfolio

Risk that the removal of black trays by brands and retailers would remove an outlet for recycling ‘Jazz’ flake.

• Assess new technologies to sort existing black polymers

No new technology solutions were presented

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What is Jazz?

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Recycle Recycled content Repurpose

BLACK PLASTIC S

January to July 2018 Joint Partnership Collaboration (Project Vadar)

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Recycle Recycled content Repurpose

BLACK PLASTIC S

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Uk Recycling Map - Draft

Recycling Centres (MRFs, Depots) Local authorities that actively do not collect black plastics

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Recycle Recycled content Repurpose

BLACK PLASTIC S

Next Steps

• Resolve technical challenges on PVC contamination
• Develop food grade recycled content for CPET
• Commitment to recycle and reuse 120 tonnes of black per month
• Develop national solution

Our Ask

• A few local authorities are specifically stating that they will not collect
• black. We need this decision to change
• 3 of those authorities are in Kent – which is where we have developed

the solution

• Support from WRAP and the OPRL scheme to communicate the

solution to local authorities

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Partnerships are critical to how we can deliver our ambition to move towards a closed loop society.

Thank You.