WAste 2020

A Vision for the Future

Dr Ken Michael AM
Chairman
WAste 2020 TaskForce
 Introduction

❚ Waste Management Forum held in 1999

❚ Taskforce to develop a Strategic Action Plan
❚ Representatives from a cross section of the
industry and community
❚ WAste 2020 TaskForce established in April 2000
 Key Questions

❚ What should be the vision for 2020?

❚ What are the outcomes to realise this
vision?
❚ What are the key goals?
❚ What strategies should be put in place?
❚ What actions should support these
strategies?
 WAste 2020 Strategy

❚ Vision
❚ Goals
❚ Outcomes
❚ Strategies
❚ Key actions and targets for 2001 to 2005
 VISION

Towards zero waste by 2020.

 GOALS

❚ Sustainability
❚ Commitment
❚ Prevention
❚ Resource Recovery
❚ Integration
 Vision
Towards zero waste by 2020
through
Sustainability
Commitment
Prevention
Resource Recovery
Integration
 Strategic Action Plans

❚ Five year horizon

❚ Period of consolidation, communication
and commitment
❚ Global actions
❚ Industry sector actions
 Global Actions

❚ Waste Management Overarching Body

❚ Research, Development & Technology
❚ Public Education
❚ Management Plans
❚ Reporting
 Global Actions

Waste Management Overarching Body

❚ Review structure and reporting options

❚ Establish representative advisory council
❚ Review landfill levy
 Global Actions

Research, Development & Technology

❚ Review alternative technologies

❚ Develop a multi-criteria model to assess suitable
waste treatment options
❚ Review academic & applied research programs
❚ Promote & foster emerging & innovative
concepts
 Global Actions
Public Education

❚ Develop and implement Public Education

& Promotion Strategy
❚ Develop school curricula
❚ Document new cases of cleaner
production
❚ Develop on-line guide for environmentally
friendly products
 Global Actions

Management Plans
❚ Establish resource recovery precincts in
Perth metropolitan area
❚ Facilitate between key stakeholders to
share expertise and efficiencies
❚ Establishment of waste management
plans for State government agencies and
local government
 Global Actions

Reporting
❚ Review all available data and data
collection systems
❚ Waste management industry to report
their waste management performance
❚ State government agencies and local
government to report on their waste
management performance
 Action Plans for
Each Industry Sector

❚ Construction & Demolition Wastes

❚ Commercial & Industrial Wastes
❚ Problematic Wastes
❚ Green & Organic Wastes
❚ Municipal Solid Wastes
❚ Controlled Wastes
❚ Packaging Wastes
 Problematic Wastes

❚ Tyres
❚ Batteries
❚ Electrical waste
❚ Laboratory waste
❚ Household hazardous waste
❚ Waste oils
 Problematic Wastes Action
Plan

Sustainability

❚ Economic instruments to ensure the

sustainability of recycling practices

❚ Establish and publicise best practice “reduce,

reuse, recycle” programs for all problematic
waste streams
 Problematic Wastes Action
Plan

Commitment

❚ Pilot test emerging and innovative concepts and

tools in sustainable practices

❚ Publicise environmental impact of problematic

wastes to increase community awareness
 Problematic Wastes Action
Plan

Prevention

❚ Recycle tyre rubber in road-making

❚ Include problematic waste streams in controlled

waste regulations
 Problematic Wastes Action
Plan

Resource recovery

❚ Extended Producer Programs for problematic

wastes

❚ Develop user-friendly manuals embracing Waste

2020
 Controlled Wastes
❚ Asbestos
❚ Acids and alkalis
❚ Clinical and medical
❚ PCBs
❚ Solvents
❚ Flyash
❚ Explosive, flammable and toxic
❚ Sewage sludge and septic tanks
❚ Contaminated soils
 Controlled Wastes
Action Plan

Sustainability
❚ Apply the multi-criteria decision model to assess
best practicable outcomes

Commitment
❚ Review systems that minimise or eliminate
controlled wastes
 Controlled Wastes
Action Plan

Prevention
❚ Load-based discharge fee system
❚ Guidance notes as voluntary codes
❚ Develop and implement Controlled Waste
Regulations
❚ Develop inventory of quantities and types of
controlled wastes
 Controlled Wastes
Action Plan

Resource recovery
❚ Publish controlled waste generation data

Integration
❚ Develop a priority list of controlled wastes that
have greatest environmental significance
❚ Work with stakeholders to reduce the quantity
of the particular waste stream requiring disposal
 Construction & Demolition
Wastes Action Plan

Sustainability
❚ Establish quarry rehabilitation criteria
❚ Reporting requirements for landfill
operators
❚ Cost/benefit analysis of recycling clean
C&D
 Construction & Demolition
Wastes Action Plan
Commitment
❚ Maximise separation of C&D material at source

Prevention
❚ Target problem components of C & D residuals
❚ Best practice demolition regulations
❚ Encourage take-back schemes for over-ordering
 Construction & Demolition
Wastes Action Plan

Resource recovery
❚ Establish “Producer Responsibility Programs” programs
for whitegoods and other electrical producers and
suppliers to set up drop-off centres or arrange to pick
up goods for recycling

Integration
❚ Waste management plans for construction industry
 Where to from here?

❚ Final Strategic Action Plan by early 2001

❚ Presentation to Minister

❚ Implementation, monitoring and review

by overarching body
WAste 2020

A
VISION
for the
FUTURE