Sustainable Plastics

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Sustainable Plastics

• NZ Plastics Sustainability Initiative
• Agenda for action by 2008

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NZ Plastics Sustainability Initiative - 5year
agenda for action

• 1. Industry Action
• training
• best environmental practice
• sustainable design
• 2. Company Commitment
• 62 companies signed up
• sustainable design - best environmental
  practice
• 3. Joint Projects
• plastic waste strategy
• procurement supply chain

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Chequer Packaging (ChCh)

• Waste / month down from
• 12t 2001 to 4.7t 2003
• Reduction over 88t pa
• More in house scrap being sorted for recycling
• Metal ink pails recycled
• Clear rubbish bags on site to see what is dumped

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Long Plastics (Auckland) Ltd

• Reduced waste 12.3tonnes
• Using recycled EPS in Form-flow protective panel
  system for retaining walls
• 48tonnes used since launch in 1999

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Talbot Plastics Ltd

• Saved approx 250,000
• Reduced waste by 214m3
• Reduced packaging waste by 86
• Used 74tonnes of customers waste
• Reprocess 5 different polymers

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New Packaging Accorddraft now available for
consultation go to www.packaging.org.nz or
talk to John Webber for more information
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StatisticsPlastics Mass Balance Survey

• Plastics New Zealand surveys NZ manufacturers
  recyclers and Packaging Council establishes level
  of imported plastics packaging
• National Production (Imports) - Recycling
  Waste to Landfill

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Plastics Recycling Targets

• Current t Current TARGET ( NZ
  Production)
• PET 4,772 31 40
• HDPE 5,736 28 40
• LDPE 5,229 18 25

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How much more to meet targets?

• 1,548t PET
• 2,897t HDPE
• 2,917t LDPE
• NB to meet HDPE target we need to collect
  equivalent of 72.4 million milk bottles!

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How - Recycling Strategy?

• Targets 2008
• November WasteMINZ workshop create national
  strategy
• PNZ Sustainability Initiative PEBPP

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Extended Producer Responsibility

• Producers taking more responsibility for the
  environmental impacts of their production and
  marketing decisions
• Total environmental footprint covers resource
  extraction, production, distribution, use, and
  disposal phases
• Product Stewardship
• Cleaner production
• Supply chain initiatives (MfE 2003)

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Supply chain - waste production
Source OECD 2000 Strategic Waste Prevention
Reference Manual
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Commitment

• To educate and advise customers on product
  design and material selection based on best
  sustainable design practice

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Why designSustainable Plastics?1.
2.Reputation3.Regulation
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Best Practise means design to prioritise
(energy, water, raw materials, chemicals)

• 1. Reduce
• 2. Reuse
• 3. Repair
• 4. Recycle
• 5. Residual to Landfill
• Compostability of biodegradable plastics

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Design for reuse of material

• 1. Avoid using more than 1 plastic type
• 2. Check compatibility - plastics, labels,
  foils, caps, adhesives
• 3. Use colourants sparingly
• 4. Always use ID codes
• 5. Disassembly - ease of emptying, use snap
  fittings or break points to replace components
  or separate for recycling
• 6. Avoid secondary finishes coatings
• 7. Avoid composite materials
• 8. Avoid metal foils, components fasteners
• 9. Avoid toxic additives
• 10. Dont over specify or over order
• 11. Establish possible reuses
• 12. Provide clear info on recyclability to end
  user

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Biodegradable Plastics

• No NZ or Australian Standards
• PNZ Developing Code of Practice
• Key Issues
• Decisions need to be based on independent testing
  and certification
• Labelling - clear advice to users on how to
  dispose of product
• Contamination of plastic recycling

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PNZ Role 2003-4 Implementing Sustainability
Initiative

• Education
• Communication
• Monitoring Reporting
• 2004 Programmes
• Training, PEBPP, HSNO, Recycling

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Plastics Environmental Best Practice Programme
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2004 PNZ Challenge

• 100 signed up to Sustainability Initiative
• 20 companies reduced waste by 50
• 24 companies participating in PEBPP

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WasteMINZ Challenge 2004

• National Plastics Recycling Strategy
• National Plastics Recycling Best Practice
  Guidelines
• 40 PET
• 40 HDPE
• 25 LDPE