1. Zero Waste Europe Joan Marc Simon Jm.simon@no-burn.org GAIA Coordinator in Europe

2. Why Zero Waste in Europe now? 1- Climate change - emissions 2- Resource scarcity – higher prices 3- Economic crisis – unemployment 4- Urban ecological security 5- Sustainability 6- From combustion to digestion 7- Change of paradigm – do more with less 8- Communication – new goals for new century

3. Changing the paradigm in Europe : From Recycling to Zero Waste

5. If we look at recycling rates (2007)

6. But if we bring in waste generation(2007) (pounds/cap/year)

7. As important as building a circular economy is to reduce the materials use

8. Resource use in Europe has grown 34% between 2000 and 2007

9. Work on all levels of waste hierarchy Reduce disposal + increase collection and recycling + stabilise waste generation... Flanders, Belgium

10. Zero Waste network in Europe so far...

11. Italy – Rifiuti Zero

12. Rifiuti Zero Municipalities CAPANNORI (Lucca) població 46059 CARBONIA (Carbonia Iglesias) 29827 AVIANO (Pordenone) 9252 GIFFONI SEI CASALI (Salerno) 5272 VINCHIO (Asti) 677 COLORNO (Parma) 8979 SERAVEZZA (Lucca) 13449 CALCINAIA (Pisa) 11396 MONSANO (Ancona) 3223 MONTIGNOSO (Massa Carrara) 10553 LA SPEZIA 95641 VICO PISANO (Pisa) 8417 SOMMA VESUVIANA (Napoli) 35161 CORCHIANO (Viterbo) 3826 BOSCOREALE (Napoli) 26939 MONTE SAN PIETRO (Bologna) 10.976 MAIORI (Salerno)* 5649 COLLESANO* (Palermo) 4254 FORTE DEI MARMI* (Lucca) 7760 SASSO MARCONI (BO) 14719 MARINEO (Palermo) 6814 PIETRASANTA (Lucca) 24833 ————————————————————Total 383377

13. Netherlands Region of 500.000hab

14. Catalonia, Spain

15. Basque country, Spain

17. Creation of Zero Waste network in Europe 13 countries represented Brussels 14, March

18. www.zerowasteeurope.eu

19. Does Zero Waste actually mean ZERO? What matters is the vision – never giving up the idea to further reduce residuals and minimise the use of hardly or non-recyclable materials Add «minimise residuals» to «separate collection» Cold pretreatment (MBT with recovery of materials) to keep the system flexible It can mean «less than 22 pounds of MSW residual»

20. Eurostat – 63% of europeans declares being active in the fight against climate change For 75% of them the first action they do against climate change is separating waste and recycling. For Europeans separating waste and recycling are the preferred way to fight Climate Change