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Annual Report and Vision

Jane GardnerCRUK 3rd Annual Conference

6th July 2011

www.carpetrecyclinguk.com

• Not-for-profit membership association

• 60 Members across the supply chain: raw material suppliers, manufacturers, retailers, waste companies, recyclers

• 14 Carpet Manufacturers

providing core funding


• Foster Entrepreneurship

• Facilitate market driven solutions

• Establish a collaborative environment across the supply chain

• Evaluate opportunities according to the waste hierarchy

Prevent

/Redesign

Reuse

Recycle

EfW

Landfill


• 420,000 tonnes carpet waste arising per year

• 11% residual waste in Civic Amenity sites

• Carpets composite material – recycling challenge!

Target 25% diversion by 2015


Government Waste review June 2011:

• Landfill tax escalator ~ £80/t by 2014/15

• Restrictions on sending textile waste to landfill to be considered over the course of the current parliament

• Support for producer responsibility deals for manufacturers taking responsibility for their product from design to the end of its life

• WRAP including textile in latest business plan


Results and Achievements

2010


0%

2%

4%

6%

8%

10%

2007 2008 2009 2010

Recycling

EfW

10% Diversion 2010:

• 3.5% Recycling

• 6.5% Energy from Waste

60% increase compared

to 2009


• CRUK manufacturing members diverted more than 4000 tonnes from landfill in 2010

• Both hard and soft waste recycled into high value outlets

64% Diversion of post industrial waste by CRUK Manufacturers

Zero waste likely to be achieved by end 2011


0

20,000

40,000

60,000

80,000

100,000

120,000

140,000

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Recycling

EfW

Targets


Equestrian

25% Outlet

Development

3%

Fibre reprocessing

1%Plastics

reprocessing

4%

Tile Reuse

and recycling

2%

EFW

65%


Carpet Tiles:

• Nylon recovery

• Reuse

Synthetic carpet:

• PP recovery from carpets

• Equestrian surfaces

Wool rich carpets:

• Intact carpet for mulch mats

• Use in growing media as fertiliser

• Pulling fibres for use in underlay

All carpet types:

• Energy from Waste (EfW)


-Specialist carpet

recyclers list

increased from 6 to 24:

o 8 re-use specialists,

mainly tiles

o 16 recycling and fuel

flock producers


Outlet Development

Collection and Sorting

Raising Awareness/ Promoting

existing outlets

Networking


Outlet Development


Post Installation , 16,600 t

Post Industrial, 8,400 t

Mixed Synthetics, 237,250 t

Wool rich, 103,750 t

Carpet Tiles, 54,000 t

Post consumer 395000 t


Outlet Development

Bitumen and fibre recovery

from carpet tiles EfW

capacity growth for

carpets

Basic research

on Difficult waste

streams

Wool and PP fibre

reprocessing

PP Fibres with latex

for strengthening / binding

PP Fibres with latex for plastic recovery

Wool Fibres for growing

benefit in agriculture

50 small scale

development trials


• Cropper Dust approved for use in contained growing media

• Trials with WRCS via composting route

Pulling fibres for non – wovens:

• Exploiting wool insulation properties

• Trials with air laying and thermal bonding technologies


Plastic Recovery:

– Wood replacement

– Plastic extrusion into pellets for

moulding

Fibres for binding and strengthening:

– Mortars; Floor screeds; adhesives

– Rubber compounding


• Size reduction trials

• Tile chips sampled for use in asphalt

• Nylon recovery –Aquafil

• Bitumen into road surfaces/roofing:

Desso, Econpro


• Funding for R&D activities: – to meet EA requirements for wider land usage of

wool rich carpet shred

– PP fibre recovery

– Funding support for manufacturers to redesign carpets for recycling

• Large Scale Technology Demonstration trials to give recyclers confidence to:– Invest in equipment

– Extract highest possible value from post consumer carpet waste stream


Collection Trials


Material should be kept:

• Dry

• Clean

• Uncontaminated

Enable sorting

Achieve highest value


• Trials undertaken with Griffiths Waste in South Wales

• 80 retailers contacted

Findings

• Carpet is often left with customers to dispose of via Civic Amenity sites

• Those that take back interested in scheme

• Key concerns:

– Cost

– Space on site for containers

Recycler looking into investing in collection equipment that will meet the needs of local retailers


• Winders Carpets in Bradford contacted 4 Recycling in Leeds

• Discussions with recycler regarding most suitable collection options for carpet

• Wool rich carpets collected on pallets

Result: Winders have diverted 90% carpet waste from landfill


• Focus on collections and recycling of post installation carpet off cuts

• Potential to increase recycling volume significantly by tackling 16,000 tonnes of post installation off cuts

• Treat carpet as a raw material and keep out of the general waste stream!


Raising Awareness;

Case Studies; Networking


Collection:• Bristol City Council keen to increase

landfill diversion rate

• Carpets collected by Council through: bulky waste collection and containers at 2 civic amenity sites

Recycling: • Material delivered to Greenback

Recycling for Fibre Recovery: o Synthetic fibres and wool blends

extracted,

o Cleaned to remove dirt and latex

o Baled for resale into equestrian market, plastics industry and horticultural sector

Result: Bristol City Council diverted 700 tonnes of carpet from landfill in 2010


Background:• Britannia Building Society

refurbishment• Forbo arranged partnership

with Anglo Social – Social enterprise providing work for people with autism

Result: • 1000 m2 tiles reused and

provided to socially disadvantaged households

• Anglo Social started up as social enterprise

CRUK Members working together in partnership


• Dissemination at events

• Regional networking events

• Exhibitions/seminars:


• Diversion from 1.5% to 10% in 2 years

• Manufacturing members diverted 4,000 tonnes internal waste

• Raised awareness of existing carpet outlets

• Specialist carpet outlets increase from 6 to 24 in two years

• 62 members across the carpet supply chain

• Achieved increased awareness within DEFRA and WRAP of carpet sector voluntary producer responsibility position


• Divert 50,000 tonnes from landfill – 12 %

• Increase recycling outlets to 40

• increase awareness of outlets

• Conduct selective trials

• Collection trials: Retailer take back/Post installation waste

• Lever in additional public funding to support technical work on end market development


• 10% Diversion rate

• 24 recycling outlets

• CRUK fits in with government waste strategy

• CRUK manufacturing members demonstrating environmental leadership

Let’s keep the momentum going!

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