Post on 18-Oct-2021
From regional to national wide textile recycling in Finland
TelaketjuThe collection, sorting and recycling chain for Textiles
14.6.2017 Utrech, Netherlands
Jukka Heikkilä
Southwest Finland Waste Management Ltd Lounais-Suomen Jätehuolto Oy (LSJH)
17 owner municipalities, 415,000 inhabitants
• Turnover € 28 million, personnel 85
• Fees decided by joined Board –> no tax money used
• Purchased external services ~ 60%
• Services provided in cooperation with over 700 companies
• Main tasks:
• Waste management for residential and public sector
• Waste reception, utilisation and treatment
• Hazardous waste from households and agriculture
• Waste transport arranged by the municipality
• Advice on waste
4 waste treatment centers
8 waste sorting stations
Material 390 million Tpa
Import and domestic
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
IN FINLAND Energy 386 TWh
Municipal wastes 2,7 milllion Tpa3 % of waste
< 0,6 % material flows
Waste 98 million Tpa
0,15 millionTpa
Sources:
Statistics Finland 2014
Ministry of the Environment
material flows report 26/2013
LSJH Statistics 2015
Wa
ste
ma
na
ge
me
nt
Wa
ste
le
gis
lati
on
• Preservation of the value of products and materials
• Waste elimination• Resource efficiency
Much more challenging• Products get more complex
and the value is lost• Removal of contaminants• Pseudo recycling• Even indicators are missing
• CO2 emissions reduction• Emission-free (carbon neutral)
energy production• Climate editing• Resource efficiency
Challenging, but the means and indicators exists
Succes in Finnish municipal wastemanagement – waste to energy
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
– what does it mean?
CLIMATE CHANGE PREVENTION / CIRCULAR ECONOMY
ENER
GY
SAV
ING
Safe
dis
po
sal
NOTHING COMES FROM NOTHING
The laws ofConservation_of_massConservation_of_energy
IN CLOSED SYSTEM MATERIAL AND ENERGY CANNOT BE DESTROYED
->MATERIAL AND ENERGY ISSUES CANNOT BE SEPARATED
Theory_of_relativity
Municipal solid waste in Finland 2002-2030 (Tpa)Source: Information 1975–2013 (Statistics Finland), Forecast 2015–2030 (FSWA)
Waste volume 1975 1,200,000 Tpa
Annual increase 1975–2015: n. 2.3 %
Forecast for annual increase 1.0 %Total waste amount 2013 was 98 million Tpa
Municipal waste 2015 was 2,7 million Tpa ~ 500 kg/inh.
Recycling 50 % 60 % 70%?
Waste export has increased more than expected
Municipal waste for export if recycling is not growing?
Information Forecast
CHP = district heat and electricity with over 90 % effeciency
WASTE IS A BIOFUEL
Public waste management companies
are pioneers in the climate change
prevention and circular economy
Waste treatment
centers are circular
economy platforms
98% of municipal
waste is utilised as
materials and energy
Textile is the only high value fraction
in mixed municipal waste
cewep.eu/informationWhy_waste_your_energy
Backround for textile recycling project
• Studies
• Finnish Environment Institute SYKE-TEXJÄTE” project
• Topinpuisto (Topi UrbanMine) Innovatiivinen kiertotalouspuisto – PDF - LSJH’s Circular Economy park in Turku area
• “Textile 2.0” textile recycling pilot -Learning by doing
• Download Green growth in Nordic regions: 50 ways to make it happen – Nordregio
• A common aim to get rid of uncontrolled exports of textile waste to third countries
• Public waste management companies interest for joined textile recycling
• A future EU-directive on the source sorting of textile waste
• 70,000 Tpa of (2,6% of MSW) textile waste in Finland and 350,000 Tpa of textile waste in the Nordic countries
• Finland is the leading country globally on forest industry and cellulose chemistry
• Collection ≠ recycling, recycling system is missing in Finland Telaketju cooperation
7
Financing
CoordinatingResearch
and Steering
The collecting, sorting
and recycle chain
for Textiles
Collection
Sorting
Refinement
/Processing
Users/End
Products