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Title: Food Waste Recycling in New Jersey


1
Food Waste Recyclingin New Jersey
  • Camden County Food Waste Recycling Forum
  • Barry D. Brown Health Education Center
  • Voorhees, New Jersey
  • July 21, 2008

2
Commercial Organics Diversion
  • A Sustainable Business Partnership
  • Generators
  • Supermarkets, resorts/hotels, convention centers,
    restaurants, colleges, food processors,
    hospitals, corporate cafeterias, etc.
  • Vendors of Services
  • Receiving facilities, hauling companies, other
    suppliers (bags)
  • Governmental entities
  • US EPA, NJ EPA, NJ DEP, regional solid waste
    districts
  • Industry organizations
  • NJ Food Council, NJ restaurant association, NJ
    hotelier association WasteWise, organics
    organizations (BioCycle, USCC, BPI)
  • Communities where businesses operate
  • Chambers of Commerce, economic development,
    city/town leaders

3
Business Model Synergy
  • Commercial Organics Diversion/Recycling and Waste
    Stream Management
  • Should
  • Increase revenues
  • Decrease costs
  • Meet stakeholder goals
  • Satisfies operational requirements of all
    participants
  • Makes environmental sense
  • Is synchronous with government, industry, and
    community initiatives
  • Program evaluation is primarily based on
    bottom-line results
  • Typically trumps all other considerations

4
Commercial Organics Diversion
  • Business Model Synergy Overview
  • Receiving Facilities
  • Disposal revenues rise
  • Compost or outbound product (fuel, fertilizer)
    revenues increase
  • Generators
  • Lower disposal cost per ton for organic waste
  • Increased opportunities to maximize recycling
  • Organics-niche Hauling Companies
  • Increased revenues through increased hauls and/or
    improved route density

5
Business Model - Not Just Food Waste
  • All Recyclables
  • Organics largest component of the waste stream
    (tonnage)
  • Produce, other departments, paper, wet waxed
    cardboard, rendering
  • Anything that is not glass, metal, or plastic
  • OCC
  • Maximize compacting/baling as result of organics
    focus
  • Waxed cardboard
  • Composting, fire logs
  • Collection can be problematic
  • Loose, baled, back-haul, etc.
  • Plastics
  • Primarily film
  • Generate revenues vs. disposal fees
  • Other recyclables
  • Metal, glass

6
NJ Today State-Wide Challenges
  • Receiving Facilities, Transportation, Generators
  • Limited composting/receiving capacity today -
    improving
  • Facilities capable of working with varied
    generator base
  • Understand organizational dynamics define
    operational/economic models
  • Generators, composters, vendors, communities,
    regulatory agencies
  • Limited generator knowledge
  • How to I do this ? Where do I send It ? What
    will it cost ?
  • Fear of the unknown cost, odors, storage space,
    vendor relationships, customer awareness
  • Transportation infrastructure for organics
  • Cost-effective organic-niche transportation
    solutions - emerging

7
Top Level Supermarket Economics
  • Average profit 1.5 sales
  • Retail payroll 12.00 of sales
  • Capital expenditures 3.00 to 5.00 of sales
  • Supplies 1.00 of sales
  • Waste removal Less than 0.30 of sales
  • Potential savings for organics diversion - almost
    insignificant as a percent of sales
  • Can be improved with operational excellence,
    complementary recycling programs, intelligent
    expense management, and favorable vendor
    relations
  • Similar financial dynamics in other sectors
  • Expense as a percent of sales or revenues may be
    greater

8
WHY ??
  • Why Would the Generator Community and Others Do
    This?
  • US EPA goal to double organics diversion
  • 2 to 4 - potential upside is significant
  • Green or Sustainability movement consumers,
    society, businesses
  • Focus on the environment and the future
    sustainability
  • Companies responding to customer demands e.g.
    Cedar Point green park rental day Honda, Ohio
  • Governmental initiatives
  • State of New Jersey goals as set out this AM
  • California recycling and organics diversion
    mandates
  • Massachusetts looming threat of supermarket
    organics ban
  • Business development and learning opportunities
  • Cost-reduction initiatives supplies, services
    purchased, energy
  • Long-term waste-to-energy solutions AD
    biofuels from food scraps

9
Commercial Organics Strategy
  • Generators
  • Entice potential generators
  • Supermarkets, resorts/hotels, convention centers
  • Restaurants, colleges, food processors, corporate
    cafeterias, others
  • Define operational and economic models leading to
    improved bottom-line results
  • Reduced expenses, improved market share,
    increased revenues
  • Qualify generators
  • Current waste management practices
  • Operational procedures
  • Economic analysis
  • Lower costs for disposal
  • Optimal costs for transportation
  • Increase revenues for other commodities
  • OCC, film plastics, other recyclables (glass,
    metal, paper)

10
Commercial Organics Strategy
  • Receiving Facilities
  • Integrate new/anticipated receiving capacity into
    the State strategy
  • New Jersey DEP /or EPA
  • US EPA organics strategy double organics
    diversion
  • Regional solid waste districts
  • Solid Waste Resource Renewal Group (SWRRG) - food
    waste recycling initiative
  • New Jersey Food Council sustainability
    initiatives
  • Environmental Committee
  • Objectives To encourage NJFC member
    participation in various aspects of sound solid
    waste policy and study and make recommendations
    on source reduction as it pertains to product and
    packaging development. A Sub-committee is the
    Composting Task Force.

11
Commercial Organics
  • Hauling
  • Hauling solutions
  • Organic-niche hauling companies
  • Composting facility as the hauling company
  • Compactors dumpsters toters
  • Trans-docking or transfer station concept
  • Hauling Economics
  • Geography proximate to composting facility 25
    mile radius
  • Regions further out greater than 25 miles
    radius
  • Cost optimization
  • Route density
  • Transfer station trans-docking
  • Existing and future generator/hauler relationships

12
Economic Tenets for Organics Diversion
  • Organics Disposal
  • Pricing transparency of tonnage and
    transportation costs - critical to maximizing
    revenue and minimizing expense
  • Pay for disposal on a per ton basis
  • Benefits both the generator and the receiving
    facility
  • Critical to maximize savings from disposal fee
    differential
  • Aligns generator in a direct business partnership
    with the receiving facility
  • Invoiced on a per-ton basis by the receiving
    facility
  • Defined price per ton for disposal
  • Per ton for compactors
  • Per ton for dumpsters assumes truck scale
    capability
  • Per ton (or decimal of ton) for toters Truck
    scale or toter program can be on an agreed-upon
    average toter weight (e.g. 225 lbs. per toter)

13
Economic Tenets for Organics Diversion
  • Organics Hauling
  • Pay for hauling on a per pick-up basis
  • Have hauling managed (invoiced?) if possible by
    the receiving facility
  • Facility either subcontracts, partners with, or
    self-hauls
  • Compactor per haul based on distance and
    trucking costs
  • Most hauling companies can do this
  • Dumpsters toters per stop, assuming multiple
    stops on a route
  • Usually requires an organics-niche hauling
    company
  • Can make program start-up difficult
  • Close working relationship between the receiving
    facility and the hauling company
  • As if it is one vendor relationship from the
    generator standpoint

14
NJ Strategic Initiatives
  • Three Parallel Efforts 2007/2008
  • Identify/solidify the food waste receiving
    infrastructure
  • Increase food waste receiving capacity
  • Gain simultaneous government, industry,
    generator, receiving facilities, hauler
    commitment
  • Communication, education, analysis, funding,
    results, buy-in
  • Leverage synergistic business partnerships
  • Generators supermarkets, convention centers,
    resorts, others
  • Cities, chambers of commerce, economic
    development initiatives
  • Receiving facilities
  • Transportation organics-niche hauling companies
  • Governmental industry entities support,
    direction, goals

15
New Jersey Tomorrow - State-Wide Considerations
  • Strategic Process Capable of Growing at a
    Reasonable Pace
  • Expanding list of generators build on
    supermarket foundation
  • Known and planned receiving and hauling
    capacities/solutions
  • Financially responsible cost structure
  • Positive economics for all business partners and
    stakeholders
  • Public relations initiatives
  • Active promotion of program progress and success
  • Business partners generators, receiving
    facilities, haulers
  • US EPA, NJ EPA, NJ DEP, WasteWise, industry
    associations (BioCycle, USCC, BPI), trade
    publications (BioCycle)
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