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Waste Management

Innovation, Sustainability and Customer Value

2013 Tennessee Symposium: Growing Tennessee’s Recycling Economy

August 15, 2013

Jessica Preston, ATAK Market Area Sustainability Program Director

Company Overview

Ø Know Our Customers Better than Anyone Else Ø Extract More Value from the Waste Stream Ø Innovate and Optimize our Operations

Transformational Change

Not just a push – pack – cover company!

Ø More than double our recyclables volume to 20 million tons per year Ø Improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions of our fleet by 15% Ø Double the amount of green energy produced from waste to power more than two million homes Ø Quadruple our wildlife habitat sites to 100 certified sites (in 2008, 49 Wildlife Habitat Council certified sites)

Transformational Goals by 2020

Focus on management of existing resources

§ Corporate Goal - More than double our recyclables volume to 20 million tons per year § Meet customer needs § Increase revenues/market share § Airspace savings:

• extend life of landfills

§ Soil poor sites:

• expensive to operate

Ø Value inherent to materials

Transformational Goals by 2020

Goals and Drivers

Waste Management

Green vs. Traditional Services

2007 – 2011 saw marked shift away from traditional landfilling, with increases in recycling, green collection and transfer, and energy production.

Figure from: December 2012 WM Sustainability Report

Wide Variety of Materials are in MSW

Opportunities abound: Paper Plastics Metal Food Wastes Yard trimmings/Wood

Figure from: Municipal Solid Waste Generation, Recycling, and Disposal in the United States: Facts and Figures for 2011

Wide Variety of Materials for Recovery

Even with a 34.7% total recycling rate significant volumes remain remain Plastics Paper/fiber Metal Food Wastes Yard trimmings/Wood

Figure from: Municipal Solid Waste Generation, Recycling, and Disposal in the United States: Facts and Figures for 2011

Recovery: Only Part of the Equation

Landfill Bans

• Ineffective without companion legislation encouraging purchase
• f products containing recycled material
• Markets need to be supported through legislation

Operation Green Fence

• China’s 2013 enforcement of existing laws concerning random

inspections of incoming commodities

• Increases domestic supply of commodities with associated price

drop

§ Increased cost of business, lowers rebates § Positive benefits of keeping it domestic do exist

Economic “Headwinds” to recycling exist

Think Globally…

Act Locally

Focus on Sustainable Growth

Tennessee Initiatives

Focus on Sustainable Growth

Middle Tennessee EcoPark MTEC

Material Recovery at Working Face Landfill Mining Future Organics

MRFs – Recent Acquisitions River Hills

River Gate

Other Material Recovery Programs New Consumer Services/Products Innovation, Optimization, and Customer Focus

Landfill Mining MTEC (C&D Recycling Facility) Future Organics Solution

“Middle Tennessee EcoPark”

Material Recovery at the Working Face

• In 2012, the Middle Tennessee Environmental Center moved

adjacent to the Southern Services Landfill

• Improved efficiencies and outlets for materials
• OCC, wood, aggregate, metals
• Metro-Davidson County,

+ surrounding areas

• 2012 - 90,000 cu yds
• Recycled > 50,000 cu yds

Middle Tennessee Environmental Center

Construction Demolition Recycling

Trucks arrive to check station

• Most loads go to landfill
• C&D Recycling at work face
• Communication with operators
• LEED jobs go to MTEC
• (extra reporting, tracking)

Middle Tennessee Environmental Center

After entering MTEC…

• Load is dumped out on tipping floor, photographed, inspected,

documented

• Trained, experienced

personnel – in field and in

• ps support

Middle Tennessee Environmental Center

Sorted with skid steer, excavator with grapple, loader Final hand sort (metals, wood, OCC)

• Metals separation - Night operator at working face

goes through more loads with magnet Placed in boxes for haul to grinder, metal processor, MRF , or up to landfill (residual) Data communicated to customer (DART) and internally

Middle Tennessee Environmental Center

Initiated in 2008 and permitted through TDSWM § Removal of metals, cardboard, useable aggregate In 2012-2013, salvaging OCC and additional types of metal with new equipment 2012 results

• OCC, ferrous and non-ferrous metals
• ~1100 tons extracted

Material Salvage at the Working Face

Landfill Mining

• Intent is to remove metals and
• ther recoverable materials
• Gain airspace and retrieve

valuable commodities

• Pilot study in Alabama -

Fultondale Construction & Demolition Landfill

• Careful, methodological

approach

• In 2012 - Worked with TDEC to
• btain appropriate permits

Landfill Mining

2013 – utilized three shallow geophysical techniques to identify “hot spots” in 2 ac study area. Weather permitting, will excavate this fall.

Organics Recycling

• WM estimates that 30-35 million tons are organic in nature from

the materials we manage (excluding recycled paper, OCC, etc).

• WM currently manages over 1.25 million tons of organics to

beneficial uses including composting, mulch operations

• WM currently operates 36 Organics Facilities

Organics Recycling

In Middle Tennessee – exploring range of options

• Composting
• Anaerobic codigestion
• Economics are not there yet for WM

Exploring partnerships with other vendors, municipalities

Material Recovery Facilities

Enhancing Recycling Capacity

River Hills MRF

Single Stream and Source Separated

Inbound volume of approximately 4000 tons/ month Of this, approximately 68% is single stream

• 60% residential
• 40% commercial

Majority is OCC in the remaining volume Single shift One baler Sort line with various sorting mechanisms Q4 2013-Q1 2014: Installation of container line to separate containers – tin, aluminum, plastics (HDPE from PETE)

River Gate MRF

Primarily Fiber

Inbound volume of approximately 2700 tons/ month - nearly 100% commercial volume, very little residential Of this volume:

• 43% OCC
• 24% office paper
• 13% boxboard
• 4% misc paper grades
• 7.5% glass
• 4% combined plastics (film)
• 3.5% other non fiber

Single shift Two balers Metro Convenience Center is Co-Located

Material Recovery Facilities

Enhancing Recycling Capacity

We still have capacity and plan to grow. These MRFs can support local communities

• Need less capital in

municipalities/counties

• Build on existing hub-and-spoke

models

• Less exposure (for communities)

to risks of volatile commodities markets. Examples –

• Lewisburg-Marshall County
• Spring Hill
• Metro Davidson County

Other Material Recovery Operations

Fiber Mining

“Rough Sort”

• Nashville – Antioch Transfer

Station

• Temporarily suspended due to
• perational limitations on space –

anticipated to begin again in Q4 2013

• Memphis Transfer Station
• Successfully mines >300 tons OCC/

month

Removal of OCC

Landfill Gas-to-Energy

West Camden Sanitary Landfill

• Three Caterpillar 3520 Engines
• Generates 4.8 MW
• Enough to power 4800 homes

Chestnut Ridge Landfill

• Four Existing Caterpillar 3516 Engines
• Added One Caterpillar 3520 Engine
• Generates 4.8 MW
• Enough to power 4800 homes

Power for the future

• Gas curve to continue 40+ years
• Expanded capacity

Tennessee

New Consumer Products

The “Greening of America”

Think Green from Home

Through mail-back programs, WM allows customers to recycle fluorescent lights, batteries and CFLs without ever leaving their home.

Solar Compactors

• Ideal for busy public areas

(downtown, parks, malls)

• Even works with indirect

sunlight

• Low collection costs

because they hold up to 5 times the volume of waste

• Cities can use side panels

as billboards to promote local programs

• Franklin, Tennessee
• Nashville Greenways

“Our opportunities all arise from the sustainability movement.”

David Steiner CEO Waste Management Fortune Magazine Dec. 2010