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THE ROLE OF SORTING AND RECYCLING TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY Oliver Lambertz Göteborg October 2018

DID YOU KNOW? • By 2025 solid waste generation will increase by 70% compared to 2010 levels • 32% of all plastic packaging made ends up in nature every year • 20% of plastic packaging could be profitably re-used and 50% could be profitably recycled if designed for after use systems • Continuing current practices there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050 Sources: Wrap, Ellen McArthur Foundation, World Bank 4

Content Who is TOMRA? The Circular Economy The New Plastics Economy Waste sorting Closing remarks +6,0 +7,0 +12,6 +26,4

Content Who is TOMRA? TOMRA (Sorting) and the Circular Economy TOMRA and the NPE Closing remarks +6,0 +7,0 +12,6 +26,4

TOMRA SORTING FOOD Potatoes, vegetables, nuts, fruit, dried fruit, seeds, grains, meat, gummies, seafood, tobacco RECYCLING Packaging, municipal solid waste, thermoplastics, paper, commercial & industrial waste, e-scrap, aluminum MINING Industrial minerals, gems, precious metals, ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals, fuels

SORTING PRINCIPLE High-tech sensors to identify objects Feeding of unsorted material Precise ejection by air jets or mechanical fingers High-speed processing of information (material, shape, size, color, defect, damage and location of objects) 9

Content Who is TOMRA? The Circular Economy The New Plastics Economy Central MSW Sorting Closing remarks +6,0 +7,0 +12,6 +26,4

THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY ‘’EVERYTHING IS AN INPUT TO EVERYTHING ELSE” 11

For the first time we see a Push and Pull in Recycling market CONSUMER AWARENESS Demand for LEGISLATION PUSH MARKET PULL recycled materials

Circular Economy is the name of the game MUCH MORE RECYCLING WILL BE NEEDED SORTING AND RECYCLING FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES CONTENT WILL CHANGE E.G SIMPLER PACKAGING DESINGNED FOR RE-USE AND RECYCLING NEW PLAYERS WILL EMERGE E.G. VIRGIN PLASTIC PRODUCERS PART OF RECYCLING SINCE THIS IS „NEW“, THOUGHT LEADERS ARE WELCOME! 13

Regulators take action: EU has high ambitions to transform the challenge into an opportunity for the EU economy CHINA IMPORT BAN ON WASTE BY 2030, A COMMON EU TARGET FOR RECYCLING: - 70% OF PACKAGING WASTE - 55% FOR PLASTICS + new way to measure + more investments

Global CPG brands step up with ambitious targets about the use of resources for their products and packaging EXAMPLE: PRESENTED DURING

Content Who is TOMRA? The Circular Economy The New Plastics Economy Waste sorting Closing remarks +6,0 +7,0 +12,6 +26,4

NEW PLASTIC ECONOMY 17

We are only touching a small fraction of waste today GLOBAL FLOWS OF PLASTIC PACKAGING MATERIAL IN 2013 CURRENTLY ADDRESSED POTENTIAL TO BE ADDRESSED BY TOMRA BY TOMRA Source: Ellen MacArthur Foundation 18

Todays high-quality plastics recycling is focused around PET bottles, which is only a small fraction of the total plastics market Plastic use by type of material in % Plastic use by industry in % Consumer Packaged Goods 40 Building and Construction 20 19% 30% Others 17 7% Automotive 10 8% Electronics 6 7% 19% 10% Households, Leisure & Sports 4 Agriculture 3 PE (HD, LD, MD, LLD) PP PVC PS PUR PET Other Source: PlasticsEurope Market Research Group (PEMRG) and Conversio Market & Strategy GmbH 2017 20

Recycling: industrializing the process for recycled plastic GOALS Reverse vending Sorting Sorting Washing Extrusion • Create a demand for the plastic through a process • NDA Output to be of high NDA quality in order to replace virgin material WASTE SORTING PLANTS • WASTE Extract plastics from all INCINERATION waste streams (incl. LANDFILL Virgin plastics Collection Reprocessing landfill and incineration) • NDA Municipal solid waste NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA • NDA NDA to satisfy demand Single Stream NDA NDA NDA NDA Consumer Integra • Separate Collections • • Reverse Vending Feasibility proven, Data working with multiple partners on commercialization NEW PRODUCT Retail/e-commerce Consumer goods Packaging/converter NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA NDA 21

Post Consumer Plastics – Todays recycling 22

The target is… Upgrade post-consumer PO´s to a high quality enabling to replace virgin material with 100% recycled material at competitive price = 23

The future of plastic is high quality recycling PE/PP from Pre- Flake Extrusion waste waste washing production sorting sorting deodorization sorting plants Yield Yield Yield 100% Yield 64,9% 92% 70% 65%

ECODESIGN ECODESIGN REDESIGN CIRCULAR PRODUCT DESIGN 26

Actual situation and design of products Sorting MULTILAYER MATERIALS: BLACK MATERIAL, PET BOTTLE 4 different materials FULL-SLEEVED PET depending on the top Carbon black is WITH PVC LABEL combined BOTTLE: depending on layer material and generally PVC is contamination In sorting plants such the material and thickness, standard for PET product. E.g. PP product will most thickness not detectable with sorting technology is not label would help. probably end up splitted of the label, the basic standard sorting units. able to distinguish from Black without carbon into two fractions. One material is not mono-layer material. is detectable. material should have a detectable. Color Multilayer from one big majority of the sorting is not possible. material type would be entire product. good. 27

Actual situation and design of products Recycling ALUMINUM BODY COMBINED MATERIAL PAPER – PLASTIC COMBINED MATERIALS: WITH PET BOTTOM: Most of the product will end COMBINATION: Combined material always Leads to material losses up in residual stream and/or In paper mill, all plastic ends in has negative influence on either in PET recycling or has a negative influence on residual stream. In plastic efficiency and sometimes as aluminium recycling final product recycling plant results in very well on product quality after low efficiency and high cost recycling. Small items mostly because all paper ends in are not sorted out anyhow. residual stream. 28

Workshops – Ecodesign / Sorting and recycling technologies 29

Workshops – Ecodesign / Sorting and recycling technologies PP bottle PE label PP bottle PP label 30

Content Who is TOMRA? The Circular Economy The New Plastics Economy Waste sorting Closing remarks +6,0 +7,0 +12,6 +26,4

Plastics collection in Norway / Sweden 25 – 30 kg/(cap * a) 20-25 kg/(cap * a) 5-6 kg/(cap * a) 35

IN OPERATION-ROAF MSW sorting plant Romerike, Norway  Commissioning in Jan 2014  MRF for MSW (40 t/h)  16 NIR systems included  Recovery of recyclables from MSW - PE film, - PET, - HDPE, ~ 12 kg/ (cap * a) - PP, - mixed plastics, - Mixed paper, - ferrous and non-ferrous metals - Organic waste (green bags)  Innovations: - Sorting of green bio waste bags with NIR from MSW - First fully automated sorting of all recyclables 36

IN CONSTRUCTION – PLASTKRETSEN PLASTIC SORTING PLANT, MOTALA PLASTKRETSEN, Motala, Sweden  Start of operation end of 2018  Sorting plant for plastic packaging from separate collection and MSW  Capacity of 120.000 t/a plastics  22 NIR - PE film - PET bottles - PP - HDPE natural / color - PET trays - Other film (optional) 37

IN CONSTRUCTION – IVAR MSW Sorting + plastic washing plant Stavanger, Norway  Start-up end of 2018  Pre-sorting before incineration  Capacity 40 t/h  Fully automated plant for MSW + separately collected paper with 22 NIR for - PE film - PET bottles - PP - HDPE - PET trays - Mixed paper + beverage carton - Deinking negative - Beverage carton  Hot washing + extrusion line for film and hard plastics 39

MAYBE NEXT? – FORTUM BRISTA AND SVOA MSW Sorting Stockholm , Sweden  Tender awarded Q3 2018  Pre-sorting before incineration  Capacity 45 t/h / 40 t/h  Fully automated plants for MSW Mixed plastics  input to Motala Plastkretsen plant - - Biowaste bags (option FORTUM) - Mixed paper + beverage carton (option FORTUM) 40

Content Who is TOMRA? The Circular Economy The New Plastics Economy Waste sorting Closing remarks +6,0 +7,0 +12,6 +26,4

Closing remarks CIRCULAR ECONOMY IS THE NAME OF THE GAME CHANGE IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN PROCESS OF THE PRODUCERS CONSUMER AWARENESS PROFITABLE SOLUTIONS LEGISLATION AS BASIS FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE IN THE WAY THE CO.‘S APPROACH THE TOPIC

Closing remarks PLASTICS ARE WRONGLY COLLECTED AND HIGH AMOUNTS ARE LOST PRODUCT DESIGN LEADS TO FURTHER LOSSES IN SORTING/RECYCLING HIGH QUALITY AND QUANTITY RECYCLING WILL BE NEEDED TO SATISFY BRAND OWNER EXPECTATIONS PRE-INCINERATION PLANTS/MSW PLANTS AS ADDITIONAL IMPORTANT SOURCE FOR FEEDSTOCK OF RECYCLED PLASTICS +12,6 +26,4

WE ARE MAKING LOST OPPORTUNITIES HISTORY. www.tomra.com/recycling 44

Rethink. Reimagine. Resource. 45