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Building the Infrastructure Beyond Recycling GRRN National Zero Waste Action Conference Saturday, July 30, 2011 1 Ruth C. Abbe National Practice Leader HDR Engineering, Inc.
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Agenda Barriers to Zero Waste –“Legacy Discards” –“Design for the Dump” –“Mistakes” Zero Waste Infrastructure –Physical Infrastructure –Social Infrastructure Culture Change –Alameda Technical Assistance –Stopwaste.org –San Francisco 2
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Barriers to Zero Waste “Legacy Discards” “Design for the Dump” “Mistakes” 3 Disposable Espresso Capsules Targeted for Redesign
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Barriers to Zero Waste 4 Legacy Discards Design for the Dump Legacy Discards Design for the Dump Mistakes
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Zero Waste Infrastructure Physical infrastructure Universal access to recycling and composting collection services –Residential –Commercial –Institutional Processing capacity –Recycling –Full spectrum organics Self-haul –Resource recovery park – Facility Use Fee (San Luis Obispo) –Scavenging prior to landfilling – Urban Ore style (Berkeley) 5
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Recyclables Processing Facility Tons per day50-600 Cost per tonPays $10-30 Acres required5-10 Phoenix North Transfer Station and Material Recovery Facility Curbside Processing
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Composting - Large Scale and Small Scale Lamont Composting Facility, Kern County Tons per day100-1,000 Cost per ton$35-60 Acres required15-60 Griffith Park Composting Facility Windrow In-Vessel Aerated Static Pile
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Resource Recovery Center Tons per day1-10 Cost per ton$50-100 Acres required2 Monterey Regional Waste Management District
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Construction and Demolition (C&D) Facility Downtown Diversion C&D Facility, Los Angeles Tons per day50-500 Cost per ton$30-40 Acres required10 C&D Processing
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Anaerobic Digestion Tons per day200-500 Cost per ton$100-130 Acres required5-10 Dranco, Brecht, Belgium Valorga Process, Barcelona, Spain Products/By-Products Biogas for energy Digestate for compost
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Addressing “Mistakes”
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Mixed Material Processing Tons per day200-400 Cost per ton$40-60 Acres required5-7 Rainbow Disposal, Huntington Beach Mixed Material Processing Products/By-Products Recyclables Compostables
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Conceptual Design for San Francisco Zero Waste Facility 13
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Facility Costs Per Ton FacilityCost per ton (net) Recyclables processingPays $10-30 Composting$35-60 Resource recovery park$50-100 C&D processing$30-40 Anaerobic digestion$100-130 Mixed materials processing$40-60 Local landfill$35-50 Remote landfill$80+
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Zero Waste Infrastructure Social Infrastructure Alignment of Goals –Local Government –Generators –Service Providers Rate Structure Signals Community-Based Approaches New Rules and Mandates Culture Change Technical Assistance 15 Miss Alameda Says “Compost!”
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Community Based Approaches Community Action for a Sustainable Alameda Local Action Plan for Climate Protection Zero Waste Implementation Plan Alameda Green Schools Challenge – comprehensive recycling and composting at all schools (public, private, parochial) Miss Alameda Says “Compost!” – targeting restaurant food scraps Faith-Based Outreach Program – greening faith-based organizations (churches, temples, mosques) and their congregations 16
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Commercial Technical Assistance Stopwaste.org Metrics Stopwaste Partnership $270,000 per year –Targets large businesses (50+ employees or 15+ cubic yards per week of service) –800 active clients (30% of countywide total) –50 new clients per year –150 clients served per year –Goal is to divert 10,000 tons per year –New diversion costs less than $30 per ton for technical assistance Restaurant technical assistance $60,000 per year –Diverting 500 tons per month or 6,000 tons per year –New diversion costs about $10 per ton for technical assistance 17
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Commercial Technical Assistance (cont.) 18 San Francisco Metrics Technical assistance contract for $330,000 per year New diversion from 60 to 80 businesses per month Goal is to divert 44,000 new tons per year New diversion costs less than $20 per ton for technical assistance
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