Nordic Green Growth
by sustainable waste management
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Sanna Due Sjöström
Nordic Waste Group
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Vision
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From the Prime Ministers’ report
at the launch of the project:
“If green growth is to be a key priority for
Nordic co-operation in the next few years,
then it is essential to have a joint vision for the work
– a vision underpinned by tangible activities, one that enjoys
strong political support and sends important signals about
political goals and intentions”
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Project areas
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1. Developing
Nordic test centres for
green solutions
5. Working together on green
procurement in the public sector
2. Working together on education,
training and research for green
growth, including bioeconomy
6. Developing techniques and
methods for waste treatment:
3. Promoting flexible consumption of
electricity
4. Working together on greentechnology norms and standards :
a. Building & construction
b. Ecodesign
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a. Plastic and textiles
b. Food waste
7. Promoting the integration of
environmental and climate
considerations into development aid
8. Co-ordinating and improving
funding for green investment and
companies
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700.000 tons of plastic are discarded
with household waste in the Nordic
countries each year
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If the Nordic countries recycled half of their
plastic waste, it would reduce the outlet of
green house gasses corresponding to the
outlet from all cars in the Nordic capitals
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Three projects on plastic waste
• Nordic improvements in collection and
recycling of plastic waste
• Nordic plastic value chains - Case WEEE
• Recycling of plastics at recycling centres
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Important aspects
1. Increased collection
2. Market opportunities
3. Nordic co-operation
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Increased collection
• Better source-sorting
• Collection of other plastic waste
• More efficient sorting of mixed wastes
• Plastic bulky waste
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Market opportunities
• The chicken and egg syndrome
• Where is the demand ?
• Communication and transparency
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Nordic cooperation
• Practical
• Institutional
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Where we are in 2020
Higher share of the generated
plastic waste is collected
Recycling into same
quality products
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Effective and flexible
sorting and processing
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Textile waste as resource
for the Nordic region ?
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Every year 350 000 tonnes of textiles are
consumed in the Nordic region, of which
only 120 000 tonnes of used textiles are
separately collected.
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Business as usual
Storage/ accumulation:
0,9 kg/capita & year
Consumption of new textiles:
14,2 kg/capita & year
Collection of used textiles:
4,5 kg/capita & year
Incineration and landfill:
8,8 kg/capita & year
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Today
One user
In use
Not in use
Functional lifetime
Incineration/
landfill/downcycling
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Vision
In use
Feed into
new textile
products
In use
In use
In use
Functional lifetime
Chemical recycling
Collection
Mechanical recycling
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Textile projects
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Key goals of the commitment:
• Eliminate the illegal collection, export and
trading of post-consumer textiles
• Enable legitimate actors to collect, sort,
reuse and recycle textiles in cooperation
with producers, importers and authorities.
• Increase transparency on the fate of
collected textiles and the purpose of the
collection and increase public confidence
in collecting organisations
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10 years goal
• Within ten years double the share of
post-consumer textiles that are collected
separately in the Nordic region
compared to 2012
• At least 50% of collected textiles are
reused (either in Nordic countries or
abroad) and 90% of the total is reused
or where reuse not possible, recycled.
Aim towards closed loop recycling rather
than downcycling.
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Policy instruments
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Extended Producer
Responsibility (EPR)
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Policy principle to promote total life cycle
environmental improvements of product
systems by extending the responsibilities of
the manufacturer of the product to various
parts of the product’s life cycle, and
especially to the take-back, recovery and
final disposal of the product.
Based on the “polluter pays” principle.
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Mandatory
EPR
Voluntary
EPR
or
Policy
support for
new
business
models
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Policy
support for
new
business
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Established/emerging
business models
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Local job
creation!
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Established/emerging
business models
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New green jobs
Increasing collection, sorting, reuse and
recycling of textiles in line with the
strategy comprises potentials to create
significant increases in employment –
potentially more than 4000 new green
jobs – and position the Nordic region as a
forerunner in resource efficient use and
handling of used textiles.
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Policy briefs
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STOP WASTING!
Thank you for your attention!
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