Quarterly Meeting - Wood Recyclers Association · Agenda 08.30 am –08.35 am Welcome and Introduction –Andy Hill 08.35 am –08.40 am Board Update - Andy Hill 08.40 am –08.50

Quarterly MeetingSeptember 2018

Welcome

Andy Hill - Chair

Agenda

08.30 am – 08.35 am Welcome and Introduction – Andy Hill

08.35 am – 08.40 am Board Update - Andy Hill

08.40 am – 08.50 am WRA Activity Update - Julia Turner & Gayle Whittaker

08.50 am – 9.00 am WRA Technical Update – Vicki Hughes, Hadfield

09.00 am – 9.30 am Update from the Environment Agency on Regulatoryissues affecting the waste wood sector and Q&A –Howard Leberman

09.30 am – 09.50 am The impact of the EU CE Package, BREXIT and the UK Resources and Waste Strategy on the Waste WoodSector – Colin Church, CIWM

09.50 am – 10.00 am Date and Location of Future Meetings & AOB

Welcome – New Members and Guests

Company Name

CIWMColin Church, Pat Jennings, Kim Mynard,

Ginny Hunter

Eneco Jan Willem Beltman

ENVA Group Barry Coughlan

Environment Agency Howard Leberman

Kronospan Pete Watts

Marubeni Komatsu Carl Woollaston

ORG Jeremy Jacobs

Sheehan Haulage & Plant HireRichard Sheehan, Tara Sheehan, Katie

Sheehan

WRAP Debbie Palfrey

Board Update

Board Update

• Quarterly management Accounts to end July 2018

➢ Turnover of £65,469 Actual vs £67,643 Budget

➢ Expenditure of £55,759 Actual vs £56,570 Budget

➢ Surplus of £9,710 (£11,073 Budget) – less than forecast due to members

taking a long time to pay membership fees

➢Reserve Account - £42,379 – some will be used for WWC work

• Trade Association vs. Mutual Trading Organisation Status

• Members cannot claim membership as a business expense

• Can reclaim the VAT

ED Update

Julia Turner

WRA ED Activity Update• 6 more new members this quarter – FCC, Marubeni Komatsu,

Sheehans, Sylvagen, CIWM and Action Recovery and Recycling

from Australia!

WRA ED Activity Update

• Updated Business Plan – summary to be circulated

• Clean Air Strategy Consultation Response

• Part B permit guidance update proposals – consultation now open

• Stakeholder Engagement – HSE, EA, CIWM, Defra, NAWDO,

LARAC, WISH, WRAP, ESA, ORG, REA

• Next Quarter

• FPP Waste Wood Guidance launch,

• Commence Testing/Sampling work for WWC,

• Presenting at range of events, both here and in Europe

• Starting to scope out work with HSE on dust/explosions

Communications Update

airqualitynews.com

https://www.airqualitynews.com/

Keeping waste wood in the headlines

Media coverage since June

Articles covered

Media coverage since June

• Clean Air Strategy - Air Quality News; letsrecycle.com,

• Waste wood statistics 2017 - letsrecycle.com; CIWM

Journal, MRW, RWW, Skip Hire magazine

• WRA & CIWM partnership - MRW, CIWM Journal

• FPP update - MRW opinion article by MRW editor

• Waste wood market update - CIWM opinion article by Andy

Follow us on Twitter and Linked In

http://letsrecycle.com/

http://letsrecycle.com/

What’s Next

1,200 words article on waste wood update commissions for Recycling & Waste World October issue

1,500 words commissioned by Fire & Risk Management magazine on FPP and the waste sector

FPP update/launch - general news release

Andy chairing European biomass conference in Sweden

Increase social media presence and followers

WRA position on Brexit

Part B Permit feedback

New Australian member


Website Stats June - August 18

Total visits June - August = 2,920• March to May total 2,689

• December to February total 3,033

• January still highest month at 1,350

Most frequently visited pages this quarter were Members and News

Peaks in every month associated with news stories put on website, promoted through Linked In and Twitter


How can you raise your profile?

Advertising on the website

Feature article in Wood Recycling magazine

News stories in Wood Recycling magazine

Service members exhibiting at the meetings

Mailchimp E-News

Technical Update

Vicki Hughes

Technical Update

FPP Waste Wood Template/Guidance

Waste wood classification

Clean Air Strategy Consultation

FPP - Where are we now?

For over a year, we have been working with the EA to develop specific guidance for the wood recycling sector

Now working with a newly appointed EA Specialist with FRS

background

Finalising our guidance with aim of EA sign off by October 2018

Will need further development of detailed site specifics

Waste Wood ClassificationTimescales/Next Steps

Delay on final sign off from the EA to commence sampling work

Initial site assessment indicates <0.04% Hazardous in Mixed Wood

Laboratory (ies) still to be agreed

Communication to wider group led by the WRA to take place, once

final sign off received

Still aiming to complete work by November 2018, but will review at

the end of September – RPS will need to be extended

End game is to have two sets of closely aligned guidance➢ one by the WRA for the waste wood industry

➢ one for the demolition sector to be produced by NFDC

Clean Air Strategy

WRA support most of the proposed actions

Some concerns: linking the burning of wood domestically

with commercially compliant biomass• Chapter IV IED compliant biomass boilers licensed to burn post-

consumer waste wood - properly processed to an exact

specification

• Regulated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and possess flue gas

abatement technology to ensure strict emissions tolerances

WRA position• Only clean, untreated pre-consumer waste wood or suitably dried

virgin wood should be burnt in non-WiD compliant boilers

• Clean wood should only be burnt in modern burners or boilers and

that flues should be cleaned out regularly

Summary

Fire Prevention Plans • the Sector will have a confirmed waste wood industry position by

the end of 2018

Waste Wood Classification

• Extension to the RPS should be put in place

• Final position should be agreed by Q1 2019

Clean Air Strategy – We collectively need to avoid mis/dis -

information and confusion

What’s Next?

• Dust (Explosion and Health)

• Brexit!

Regulatory Update

Howard Leberman – Environment Agency

Inspiring excellence in resource management

© CIWM and Colin Church 2018

WRA Autumn Meeting 2018

Dr Colin Church

CIWM CEO@DrColinChurch

The impact of BREXIT, the EU CE Package and the UK Resources and Waste Strategy

on the waste wood sector

Who are CIWM?

As the leading professional body for resource and

waste professionals, CIWM is

the voice of the sector and represents over 5,500

individuals in the UK and overseas.

Our vision.

Making the best and safest use of resources to protect

and enrich life on our planet.

Our Mission.

To influence, inform and inspire the sustainable

management of resources and waste

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Contents

▪ Impact of Brexit

▪ Circular Economy Package

▪ Resource & Waste Strategy

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27The Brexit impact will depend on the options…



Three levels of Brexit impact

▪ General impacts on the UK

▪ Environmental & product

regulation

▪ Sector impacts

28



General impacts on the UK 29

Source: Iain Begg and Fabian Mushövel, European Institute, LSE

Investment in a post-Brexit world?

“baseline estimate is that EU membership

has raised FDI by about 28%.” –

CEP/LSE“there are signs China already views the U.K. as a supplicant rather than an equal”

- The Diplomat, 30/1/18

EconomicFundingInvestmentInternational Relations



The EU matters…

MORE THAN HALF OF UK ENVIRONMENTAL

LEGISLATION COMES FROM THE EU

PRODUCT STANDARDS ARE ALMOST ALL SET AT EU LEVEL

30



International Waste Shipments Legislation

UK Plan for Waste Shipments

Transfrontier Shipment of Waste Regulations 2007

Non-OECD Shipment Regulation (EC) 1418/2007

Waste Shipment Regulation (EC) 1013/2006

Basel Convention OECD Decision

31



Maximum WTO Tariffs 32

Description Tariff (Max)

Woven fabric of silk or of silk waste 7.5%

Tungsten waste and scrap 7.0%

Municipal Waste

6.5%Clinical Waste

Waste organic solvents, non-halogenated

Waste, Parings and Scrap, of Plastics

Worn clothing and other worn articles 5.3%

Spent, waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators 4.7%

Gallium, hafnium,… waste and scrap 4.5%

Waste, noils, garnetted stock of manmade fibres 4.0%

Glass cullet, waste or scrap, glass in the mass 3.0%

RDF

0%

Sawdust and wood waste and scrap

Waste or scrap of paper or paperboard

Rubber waste, parings and scrap (including hard rubber)

Aluminium, copper, copper alloy, ferrous, lead, nickel, tin and zinc waste or scrap

Sawdust and wood waste and scrap 0%



CEP – Targets 33

50% household recycling by 2020

55% municipal recycling by 2025



35% of 1990 waste to landfill by 2020

10% waste to landfill by 2035

60% packaging recycling and recovery

65% packaging recycling by 2025

70% packaging recycling by 2030



CEP – Packaging Targets 34

CEP Target UK Achievement

2025 2030 2016

Total Packaging 65% 70% 71.4%

Plastic 50% 55 % 44.9%

Wood 25% 30% 30.9%

Ferrous metals 70% 80% 74.4%

Aluminium 50% 60% 50.8%

Glass 70% 75% 67.1%

Paper and cardboard 75% 85% 81.9%

Wood 25% 30% 30.9%

Recycling and recovery

Recycling



35

• Resource & Waste Strategy• Fire prevention plans• New waste crime powers• National litter strategy• Deposit Return Schemes• Single-use plastic

charge/tax• Banning microbeads, plastic

stirrers, straws and cotton buds

• EPR reform• …

Lots of Policy Change in England



England Targets

36

Zero avoidable waste by 2050

Zero avoidable plastic waste by 2042

Double resource productivity by 2050

Work towards zero food waste to landfill by 2030

We will deliver a Green Brexit,

where environmental standards are

not only maintained but

enhanced



Resource and waste strategy (RWS) 37

Clean Growth Strategy

Industrial Strategy

25 Year Environment Plan

National Infrastructure Assessment

EU CEP



RWS – Likely Content

▪ Extended Producer Responsibility reform (including

packaging)

▪ Packaging recycling targets post-2020

▪ Deposit Return Scheme(s)

▪ Waste crime

▪ Recycling target levels

▪ Landfill diversion

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RWS – Possible Content

▪ ‘Smart’ recycling targets

▪ Minimum recycled content

▪ Food waste collection, other consistency issues

▪ Plastic taxes – incineration, sale, etc

▪ Support for more innovation, R&D

39



R&WM Policy is (mostly) devolved/transferred… 40

…and there’s a lot happening across the UK



Take Away Thoughts

▪ Brexit – if it happens – will have uncertain impacts on

the economy, which will impact on the sector

▪ Few immediate issues from Brexit for the sector

(unlike eg chemicals, agriculture)

▪ UK planning to adopt CEP. Lots may happen on

plastics. Apart from that, regulation unlikely to

diverge from EU before early 2020s

▪ Beyond that…

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Take Away Thoughts

▪ Brexit – if it happens – will have uncertain impacts on

the economy, which will impact on the sector

▪ Few immediate issues from Brexit for the sector

(unlike eg chemicals, agriculture)

▪ UK planning to adopt CEP. Lots may happen on

plastics. Apart from that, regulation unlikely to

diverge from EU before early 2020s

▪ Beyond that…



Dr Colin Church

CIWM CEO@DrColinChurch

The professional body for

resource and waste

managementwww.ciwm.co.uk

Date/Location of Future Meetings

Wednesday 5th December – Coventry

2019 Meetings

• March 13th

• June 12th

• September TBC

• December 4th

www.woodrecyclers.org

Enjoy the RWM!

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Quarterly Meeting - Wood Recyclers Association · Agenda 08.30 am –08.35 am Welcome and Introduction –Andy Hill 08.35 am –08.40 am Board Update - Andy Hill 08.40 am –08.50