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Quality Recyclates and Demand for Recovered Raw Materials Municipal Waste Europe, 26 November 2013 Jori Ringman-Beck Director Recycling, Product, Environment Confederation of European Paper Industries

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Aligned with resource efficient recycling society • Paper recycling mills are modern, large scale industries that need good quality input in 24/7 production process. • Paper recycling mills face increasing quality and fitness for purpose requirements by end-users. • (Paper) recycling has intrinsically increasing marginal cost - can be mitigated by improving quality and availability of input. Policy challenge Technology challenge Other/Final disposal Non-recoverable Net trade of paper for recycling Recycling “made in Europe” 4

Tu papel es importante • Climbing up from “ worst ” to “best in class” • Between 1991 – 2001 domestic demand doubled, dependence on imports – Capacity investments from 2 mt to 5 mt (1991/2011) • Systematic work with local authorities to increase domestic collection – Between 1991 – 2001 domestic collection doubled, 1991-2011 tripled from 1.7 mt to 4.5 mt (1991/2011) • Still import dependent, as exports increase! 5

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Circular economy: think globally • Paper industry supports recent EU move to ‘circular economy’ • Circular economy should not be just renaming ‘global economy’ • Result would be “exporting pollution” by promoting recycling in regions with lower environmental standards and “importing unemployment” as EU-based producers would suffer in competition. 7

Circular economy: think globally, act locally • Velocity of the cycle determines resource efficiency – EU state of the art newspapers back in recycling in 7 days, corrugated boxes cradle to cradle in 14 days • Supporting local economy 8

Risk of renewable energy policies, co-mingling (Pöyry, 2011) Three scenarios looked at with conservative assumptions: Paper is not preferred fuel in normal situations. However,... Mandatory use of Waste incineration Co-mingled waste biomass in European plant overcapacity collection expanding coal-fired power building in Europe plants These scenarios are independent and can cumulate. At risk: 20 5 5 9 (Million tonnes)

Creating bio-economy Paper industry is enabling a resource efficient bio-economy – if the EU policy framework is set right! 10

Championing recycling Coming soon at authorities close to you: Best practice in public procurement! - Criteria to consider - Life cycle costing - Benchmarking tool 11

Thank you! CEPI aisbl / Confederation of European Paper Industries 250 Avenue Louise, Box 80, B-1050 Brussels Tel: +32 2 627 49 11 / Fax: +32 2 624 81 37 j.ringman-beck@cepi.org mail@cepi.org www.cepi.org / www.paperonline.org / www.paperforrecycling.eu Follow us : @EuropeanPaper http://www.youtube.com/cepi250 http://www.flickr.com/photos/cepiindustry http://www.linkedin.com/company/cepi http://www.cepi.org/news-feed.xml 12