1. 2020: Zero Waste to Landfill Where are we now?
James Peacock
Waste Advisor
Speak to the audience, think body language, spread eye contact, slow.

2. “Zero waste is a wonderful idea but it I cannot see anyway it could ever be achieved."
Doretta Cocks, Campaign for Weekly Waste Collection, 2013

3. What is zero waste to landfill?
Why does it matter?
What are we doing about it?

4. Zero waste to landfill
“By 2020 we will eliminate the landfilling of waste, with an on-going programme to ensure efficient management of waste”
Mention packaging
Landfill contributes

5. 3% Total carbon UK Legacy Landfill £120 per tonne Material security
more than 80% chief execs from manufacturing companies told an EEF survey that shortages of raw materials presented a business risk now, in 2012
Up to 3 billion more middle class consumers
Price volatility – also in
147% increase in real commodity prices since 2000
80% rise in steel demand from 2010 to 2030.
price volatility is at least as much of a problem as price rises. making sharp price falls not a straightforward good thing.
Circular economy – an extra 3 billion middle class consumers consuming 3-6 times more, a surge in demand larger and over a shorter time period than the world has ever experienced – this will increase demand on oil, coal, iron ore and other natural resources
On a scale without presedent
Legal
financial
Sustainability
Reputation

6. Where are we now?

7. TOTAL
Category
Arisings (kt)
Diversion (%)
Sludge
115
100%
Grit and screenings
5.4
99.9%
Mixed municipal
0.7
85%
Paper
0.1
97%
Skippable 11
93%
Soil and Stone 50
98%
Grand Total 67
97.2%

9. Keeping a mobile in use for just one extra year cuts lifetime CO2 impact by a third. 100 million unused mobiles in UK
Wessex Water 466 mobiles

10. Little Canford Stores: £150,000 worth of goods returned a year

12. Summerslade Reservoir
40,000 tonnes of material recycled on site
Savings of over £500,000 on transport, landfill and raw material costs
The Summerslade Down scheme is one of six storage tanks being constructed through Wiltshire and Dorset as part of The Grid pipeline scheme. The new storage tank will have a capacity of 8 million litres. In order to help the tank with the surroundings and help minimise its visual impact, it was required to import 40,000 tonnes of bulk fill. Ordinarily this would be achieved with quarried aggregates, but by partnering with a local construction company and importing material with neighbouring Grid schemes, it was possible to achieve this with waste material.

13. “Upcycling” wood waste

15. 100% of grits and screenings composted at Avonmouth

16. Separately collecting waste

17. Is this recycling?

18. Material recycling facility
Up to 25 different streams

21. Energy recovery

25. What is zero waste to landfill?
Why does it matter?
What are we doing about it?

26. "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
“Zero waste is a wonderful idea but it I cannot see anyway it could ever be achieved."
Doretta Cocks, Campaign for Weekly Waste Collection, 2013
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

27. Thank you