December 1 World Day against the incineration
ECOLOGY AND ECONOMICS OF RECYCLING WASTE
Michele Boato
After the conference "Recycling of waste-best practices and experiences Veneto", organized by Veneto-Network Environment Zero Waste Committee with the Province of Venice, in April 2010, November 26, 2010 we participated in the second stage of a cultural change, economic and ecological, to move from the logic of disposal (landfill / incineration) to prevent, reduce and recycling all waste, not only Urbani, but also starred.
is the Conference "Towards Regional Waste Plan Special" that Network Environment Veneto - Zero Waste Committee organized by the Veneto Region and the provinces of Treviso and Venice Friday, November 26, 2010 at the site of S. Artemio in Treviso. Here is the memorandum that I have done on behalf of Zero Waste Committee of TV and Ve.
Contrary to the stereotype that paints all committees environmentalists as a short-sighted view of the no ", the Zero Waste Committee meeting of TV and Ve want to help guide the formulation of ideas for a Special Waste Plan, which is not limited to photograph situation and make a list of plants disposal, but points to regulate and direct the market, impacting on production and distribution systems to reduce the quantity and hazardous nature of the Special Waste and increase reuse and recycling of waste during production is that of "consumption".
Challenge 3 R - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle - for the Special Waste
The Veneto is a leader in Italy and in Europe for waste separation and recycling of urban waste (56.3% in 2009, with 71% in the province of Treviso, and over 80% in dozens of municipalities).
Now the challenge of zero-waste recycling should also lead in total area, much larger and more complicated, special wastes: the city in the Veneto region are about 2.3 million tons / year specials, add up to about 17 million tons. (8.2 million non-hazardous RS, a million and 8 of RS Hazardous inert construction and demolition).
The data from the Regional Waste tell us that, compared with a production of 8.2 million tons. / RS in non-hazardous, in Veneto, in 2008, if they are managed as much as 9 million (ie, not c 'is a shortage of facilities);
of these as much as 62% material recovery, or recycling, incineration with only 0.3%.
E 'is already a good starting point, with the addition of 90% recycling of 7 million tons. aggregates and 17% of 800 thousand tons. Danger, which are the type of focus, especially to prevent them and reduce the BAT, best available technology., as he explains Marco Democratic Caldiroli of Medicine.
In total there are over 1200 in Veneto recycling facilities for 12 million tons of hazardous waste.
The trend of management, from 2004 to 2008, is positive: 37% increase in recycling, 25% reduction in landfill and a decrease of 49% incineration.
By recycling significantly reduces the environmental and health hazards
Focusing on prevention, reduction, reuse and recycling of waste, is a choice that respects the priorities laid down by European directives, to reduce:
- the occupation of land,
- the extraction and use of renewable resources,
-
emissions of greenhouse gases - water consumption.
addition, the recycling of materials, their transformation into "secondary materials", almost completely eliminates the damage caused to health and environment from waste disposal. Damage, in a recent study, the European Union has gone as an economic measure: the damage eco-sanitary landfill may vary (according to the types of equipment and materials) from 10 to 13 euro per ton disposed, those from incineration 4 to 21 € per ton burned.
Recycling and Green Economy
Recycling has also a great economic importance, including its impact on employment and energy savings, not by chance is one of the pillars of so-called Green Economy.
"The recycling of waste has been considered for years a low-value-added content and technological innovation": so begins Eco-effective recycling, book edited by Duccio Bianchi, presenting the results of a very thorough study, funded by Comieco and other consortia of the recycling chain, run by the Institute Environment and Italy in October 2008 presented to the Senate.
Here are some details of the study in Italy and in Europe there has been a revolution, the recycling industry has become a key sector of the economy, characterized by strong technological innovation, and is now a vital source of supply for a significant part of the industrial system: the production of aluminum, lead and paper, for example, over 50% of production inputs is made of a second.
addition, the recycling industry and the second material has great room for further development both in the field of industrial waste (pre-consumption) than in urban (post consumer).
recycling industry: a fast growth of production
The recycling sector has grown at rates well above those of the whole:
in Italy between 2000 and 2007 industrial production has contracted by 4% while the recycling activities grew by 17.2%.
In Europe, industrial production grew by 13%, 50% recycling.
Between 2000 and 2005, the recycling companies increased by 13% and staff by 47%.
As for the value of production of the recycling industry, it has doubled from 2000 to 2005 and tripled in 10 years: in 2005 was 4.2 billion euro, two of which derived from recycled metals sector where 55% firms, with 39% of employees.
In the 10 years between 1997 to 2006 the paper industry has increased from 4.3 million tonnes of recycling (with nearly one million tons. Import of waste paper) to 5.6 million tons. recycled (even with an export of nearly half a million tons.).
the same period, the materials sector plastic rose from 840,000,000,000 to 1.3000000 tons. recycling.
A great source of new jobs: the recycling
naz According to the report. the Other Economic Affairs, the Regione Lazio last October:
- companies operating in Italy in the Reuse and Recycling are about 65,000,
- with added value (the difference between the value of inputs and final product ) 23 billion euro per year (1.4% of gross domestic product)
- and 546,000 employees.
In July 2009, the Consortium national packaging recovery, Cona, the Conference "The system of waste in Italy" has made public the following information:
- 10 years in the recycling sector has recycled 38.8 million tonnes of material (paper, aluminum, plastics, glass, wood, metals, etc.).
- has thus prevented the opening of 325 new landfills,
- and created 76,000 new jobs, and
'course, concentrate instead on the disposal in landfills or high-tech furnaces involves a very low relapse employment, with investments focused primarily on technology and not in labor. Therefore not surprising that the ratio of jobs created by recycling and those related to landfill or incineration is usually evaluated in the order of 15 to 1: in other words, the same waste treated at every job created by landfill or incinerators they are, on average, 15 in the recycling industry.
But a study that I personally selected, in collaboration with Roberto Cavalli Erica Cooperative Alba, to spread the appeal "a change of scenery does not incinerate the future," data are even more significant:
- to serve with the collection " door to door "with 45 million Italians who still do not, would an investment of around one billion euro, which would create about 200,000 jobs (in the collection and recycling);
- managing the same number of users, and with the same amount of waste incinerators (and landfill of service) would cost approximately € 15 billion, which would create about 3,000 employees. The many jobs
recycling compared to incineration would be occupied than 200,000 each against 200 billion investment, a report of a thousand to one. In times of unemployment figures are not to be underestimated
Recycling and energy saving
Do not underestimate the energy savings from recycling of materials.
Professor. Paul Connet, Tournet in its last conference in Italy, describes the data:
recycle a ton of plastic PET (rather than start again from virgin granules) is to recover an amount of energy equal to 85.16 Giga Joule, the same ton burned to make electricity in an incinerator (or as a central CDR) produces 3.22 GJ.
The ratio of energy recovered with that produced by burning and recycling PET is 26 to 1.
If we make the same comparison with high-density polyethylene (HDPE), we find a 10.2 to 1 ratio between recycling and burning, and 10.9 to 1 ratio is the equivalent for other plastics.
For paper, the ratio is 4.2 to 1: If you recycle a ton, the recovery is 9.49 GJ, if you burn you produce 2.25 GJ of electricity.
is why the EU punishes us if we use the term "thermo-value": energy recovery is not burning but the PET, in contrast, are wasted about 82 GJ ton. with respect to its recycling.
The word "use" is only in comparison with the prehistoric landfill.
Di Michele Boato
ECOLOGY AND ECONOMICS OF RECYCLING WASTE
Michele Boato
After the conference "Recycling of waste-best practices and experiences Veneto", organized by Veneto-Network Environment Zero Waste Committee with the Province of Venice, in April 2010, November 26, 2010 we participated in the second stage of a cultural change, economic and ecological, to move from the logic of disposal (landfill / incineration) to prevent, reduce and recycling all waste, not only Urbani, but also starred.
is the Conference "Towards Regional Waste Plan Special" that Network Environment Veneto - Zero Waste Committee organized by the Veneto Region and the provinces of Treviso and Venice Friday, November 26, 2010 at the site of S. Artemio in Treviso. Here is the memorandum that I have done on behalf of Zero Waste Committee of TV and Ve.
Contrary to the stereotype that paints all committees environmentalists as a short-sighted view of the no ", the Zero Waste Committee meeting of TV and Ve want to help guide the formulation of ideas for a Special Waste Plan, which is not limited to photograph situation and make a list of plants disposal, but points to regulate and direct the market, impacting on production and distribution systems to reduce the quantity and hazardous nature of the Special Waste and increase reuse and recycling of waste during production is that of "consumption".
Challenge 3 R - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle - for the Special Waste
The Veneto is a leader in Italy and in Europe for waste separation and recycling of urban waste (56.3% in 2009, with 71% in the province of Treviso, and over 80% in dozens of municipalities).
Now the challenge of zero-waste recycling should also lead in total area, much larger and more complicated, special wastes: the city in the Veneto region are about 2.3 million tons / year specials, add up to about 17 million tons. (8.2 million non-hazardous RS, a million and 8 of RS Hazardous inert construction and demolition).
The data from the Regional Waste tell us that, compared with a production of 8.2 million tons. / RS in non-hazardous, in Veneto, in 2008, if they are managed as much as 9 million (ie, not c 'is a shortage of facilities);
of these as much as 62% material recovery, or recycling, incineration with only 0.3%.
E 'is already a good starting point, with the addition of 90% recycling of 7 million tons. aggregates and 17% of 800 thousand tons. Danger, which are the type of focus, especially to prevent them and reduce the BAT, best available technology., as he explains Marco Democratic Caldiroli of Medicine.
In total there are over 1200 in Veneto recycling facilities for 12 million tons of hazardous waste.
The trend of management, from 2004 to 2008, is positive: 37% increase in recycling, 25% reduction in landfill and a decrease of 49% incineration.
By recycling significantly reduces the environmental and health hazards
Focusing on prevention, reduction, reuse and recycling of waste, is a choice that respects the priorities laid down by European directives, to reduce:
- the occupation of land,
- the extraction and use of renewable resources,
-
emissions of greenhouse gases - water consumption.
addition, the recycling of materials, their transformation into "secondary materials", almost completely eliminates the damage caused to health and environment from waste disposal. Damage, in a recent study, the European Union has gone as an economic measure: the damage eco-sanitary landfill may vary (according to the types of equipment and materials) from 10 to 13 euro per ton disposed, those from incineration 4 to 21 € per ton burned.
Recycling and Green Economy
Recycling has also a great economic importance, including its impact on employment and energy savings, not by chance is one of the pillars of so-called Green Economy.
"The recycling of waste has been considered for years a low-value-added content and technological innovation": so begins Eco-effective recycling, book edited by Duccio Bianchi, presenting the results of a very thorough study, funded by Comieco and other consortia of the recycling chain, run by the Institute Environment and Italy in October 2008 presented to the Senate.
Here are some details of the study in Italy and in Europe there has been a revolution, the recycling industry has become a key sector of the economy, characterized by strong technological innovation, and is now a vital source of supply for a significant part of the industrial system: the production of aluminum, lead and paper, for example, over 50% of production inputs is made of a second.
addition, the recycling industry and the second material has great room for further development both in the field of industrial waste (pre-consumption) than in urban (post consumer).
recycling industry: a fast growth of production
The recycling sector has grown at rates well above those of the whole:
in Italy between 2000 and 2007 industrial production has contracted by 4% while the recycling activities grew by 17.2%.
In Europe, industrial production grew by 13%, 50% recycling.
Between 2000 and 2005, the recycling companies increased by 13% and staff by 47%.
As for the value of production of the recycling industry, it has doubled from 2000 to 2005 and tripled in 10 years: in 2005 was 4.2 billion euro, two of which derived from recycled metals sector where 55% firms, with 39% of employees.
In the 10 years between 1997 to 2006 the paper industry has increased from 4.3 million tonnes of recycling (with nearly one million tons. Import of waste paper) to 5.6 million tons. recycled (even with an export of nearly half a million tons.).
the same period, the materials sector plastic rose from 840,000,000,000 to 1.3000000 tons. recycling.
A great source of new jobs: the recycling
naz According to the report. the Other Economic Affairs, the Regione Lazio last October:
- companies operating in Italy in the Reuse and Recycling are about 65,000,
- with added value (the difference between the value of inputs and final product ) 23 billion euro per year (1.4% of gross domestic product)
- and 546,000 employees.
In July 2009, the Consortium national packaging recovery, Cona, the Conference "The system of waste in Italy" has made public the following information:
- 10 years in the recycling sector has recycled 38.8 million tonnes of material (paper, aluminum, plastics, glass, wood, metals, etc.).
- has thus prevented the opening of 325 new landfills,
- and created 76,000 new jobs, and
'course, concentrate instead on the disposal in landfills or high-tech furnaces involves a very low relapse employment, with investments focused primarily on technology and not in labor. Therefore not surprising that the ratio of jobs created by recycling and those related to landfill or incineration is usually evaluated in the order of 15 to 1: in other words, the same waste treated at every job created by landfill or incinerators they are, on average, 15 in the recycling industry.
But a study that I personally selected, in collaboration with Roberto Cavalli Erica Cooperative Alba, to spread the appeal "a change of scenery does not incinerate the future," data are even more significant:
- to serve with the collection " door to door "with 45 million Italians who still do not, would an investment of around one billion euro, which would create about 200,000 jobs (in the collection and recycling);
- managing the same number of users, and with the same amount of waste incinerators (and landfill of service) would cost approximately € 15 billion, which would create about 3,000 employees. The many jobs
recycling compared to incineration would be occupied than 200,000 each against 200 billion investment, a report of a thousand to one. In times of unemployment figures are not to be underestimated
Recycling and energy saving
Do not underestimate the energy savings from recycling of materials.
Professor. Paul Connet, Tournet in its last conference in Italy, describes the data:
recycle a ton of plastic PET (rather than start again from virgin granules) is to recover an amount of energy equal to 85.16 Giga Joule, the same ton burned to make electricity in an incinerator (or as a central CDR) produces 3.22 GJ.
The ratio of energy recovered with that produced by burning and recycling PET is 26 to 1.
If we make the same comparison with high-density polyethylene (HDPE), we find a 10.2 to 1 ratio between recycling and burning, and 10.9 to 1 ratio is the equivalent for other plastics.
For paper, the ratio is 4.2 to 1: If you recycle a ton, the recovery is 9.49 GJ, if you burn you produce 2.25 GJ of electricity.
is why the EU punishes us if we use the term "thermo-value": energy recovery is not burning but the PET, in contrast, are wasted about 82 GJ ton. with respect to its recycling.
The word "use" is only in comparison with the prehistoric landfill.
Di Michele Boato
