Title: Viewing Waste As A Resource
1Viewing Waste As A Resource
- Expert Meeting on Waste Management In SIDS
- Havana, Cuba, October 2003
2Challenges - National
- Absence of an integrated approach to system
development - Increase in waste volumes
- Increase in the nature of post-consumer items
- Changes in consumption habits
- Limited land space for landfilling
- Increasing cost of new technologies
- Inappropriate application of non-modular
technologies - End of the pipeline approach to solutions
- Lack of sustainability of proposed systems
3Challenges - International
- Economic and environmental vulnerability
- International trade implications
- Market identification and sustainability
- Absence of the required negotiating leverage to
elicit appropriate regional and national benefits
4Vision Statement
- Creation of a comprehensive national and regional
framework which would satisfy the requirements of
product cycle management, and ensure that
sustainable waste management systems adopt a
utilization approach towards resource
conservation. - Paradigm shift toward waste management
- Utilization of waste as a resource rather than an
item to be disposed - Different image and perspective on waste
management that sometimes challenges imported and
imposed state of the art technology -
5Objectives
- Development integrated resource management
systems. - Structuring of sustainable waste diversion
strategies. - Facilitate research and development of indigenous
appropriate technologies. - Rehabilitation of natural resource bases and
systems - Building or rebuilding of natural and acquired
resilience - Decentralisation of approaches to system
management
6Considerations
- Develop integrated resource management
Reduction design,input process changes
Management of wastes Reuse(internal external)
Supply Chain
Supply Chain
Process Waste Minimization
Product/Waste Recovery
Short Term (weeks to years) Primary,secondary
tertiary
Medium to long term (5 yrs. To 200
yrs.)biodegradation, primary
DISPOSAL
7Resource Recovery Loop
- Supply Chain 2 Supply Chain 1 Recovery
System
PRODUCT 2
PRODUCT 1
SEGREGATION
COLLECTION
PROCESS WASTE MINIMIZATION
PROCESS WASTE MINIMIZATION
SHORT TERM RECOVERY
MEDIUM/LONG TERM RECOVERY
RAW MATERIAL 2
RAW MATERIAL 1
PRIMARY RECOVERY
SECONDARY RECOVERY
TERTIARY RECOVERY
DISPOSAL
8Structure Sustainable Waste Diversion Strategies
- Policy considerations
- Command and control regulations
- Economic incentives and disincentives
- Education and technical assistance
- Subsidization for sustainability
- Close loop identification in product development
- Programme and planning considerations
- Information gathering and target specification
- Market focus and technical specifications
- Programme implementation
- Operation and maintenance plans
- Project development initiatives
9Research and Development of Appropriate
Indigenous Technologies
- Information management(documentation and
dissemination) - Technology cooperation and exchange
- Product(imported and developed) life cycle
analysis - Partnerships with academic institutions and the
industrial sector - Creation of demonstrative projects such as
Technoparks and Biofarms. - Determine relevant project RD areas
- Modular low cost biogas units with high methane
yield - Vermicomposting systems for high quality organic
fertiliser products - Production of nitrogen rich organo fertilisers
- Use of water plants for biological treatment in
ponds
10Rehabilitation of Resource Bases and Sources
- Natural resources
- reefs,
- ground and surface water replenishment,
- landfill mining,
- human integrity development,
- mangrove rehabilitation
11Rebuilding/Building of Resilience(internal and
external)
- Ensure there is the 4Ps approach to system
development (Policy, Plans, Programmes, Projects) - Develop negotiating skills at the level of
funding agencies collaborations - Ensure that legislated sustainable economic
instruments are part of funding conditions - Introduce or strengthen accountability in
governance - Establish clear project and system performance
indicators
12Planned Decentralisation of Systems
- Redefine system governance structures
- Create a link between service provider and
service receiver - Address institutional arrangements to facilitate
community managed systems - Develop planned self-sufficient satellite systems
to control investment, OM and energy costs and
to ensure greater stability and security measures
13Recommendations
- Develop national integrated waste management
plans. - Structure integrated resource management systems.
- Introduce project development as an integral part
of resource management - Introduce national infrastructure for business
activity in waste minimization.
14Recommemdation(contd.)
- Establish linkages between supply chain
stakeholders and waste managers in product
development. - Create the incentives for research and
development for new and safer indigenous
technologies. - Highlight public education, awareness and
participation.
15- Proposed action plan.
- Identify priority items for resource management.
- Establish policy statements.
- Establish required regulations.
- Develop economic and social drivers for waste
minimization. - Invite business plans for product recovery and
market delivery. - Facilitate public sector private sector
initiatives. - Create linkages between product developers and
waste managers.
16GENERATION
POLICY
CHARACTERISATION
LEGISLATION
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT
INCENTIVES/DRIVERS
RAW MATERIAL
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
INVITE PROPOSALS
LINKAGES/PARTNERSHIPS
DISPOSAL
17THANK YOU