Washington State: The Next to Legislate?

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Product Stewardship
Programs and Policy Overview
Sego Jackson Kara Steward Veronica
FincherNorthwest Product Stewardship Council
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Product Stewardship
Product Stewardship is an environmental
management strategy that means whoever designs,
produces, sells, or uses a product takes
responsibility for minimizing the product's
environmental impact throughout all stages of the
products' life cycle. Greatest responsibility
tends to be held by the product producer.
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Extended Producer Responsibility

• EPR is a policy in which the producers financial
  and/or physical responsibility for a product is
  EXTENDED to the post-consumer stage of a
  products life cycle (OECD)
• responsibility and costs are shifted upstream
  in the production-consumption chain, to the
  producer
• provides incentives to producers to incorporate
  environmental considerations into the design of
  their products

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Product Stewardship Laws 2006 (source Product
Stewardship Institute)
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Product Stewardship Laws 2011 (source Product
Stewardship Institute)
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EPR Legislation Introduced 2011
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Electronic Waste Laws Passed
Electronic Waste Laws Introduced 2010 or 2011
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Washington and Oregons EPR E-waste Laws

• The Basics
• Product manufacturers implement finance
  recycling program throughout the state
  (collection through processing)
• No state tax or fee charged to the consumer at
  point of purchase or end of life
• Covered Products - computers, computer
  monitors, laptop computers and televisions
• Geographic convenience requirement
• Program Implementation Date January 1, 2009

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Successful Program ThroughoutAll of Washington
State

• Funding for collection, transportation and
  processing of covered electronics.
• Service in all 39 counties
• Service in all cities with population greater
  than 10,000
• Service for residents, small businesses and govs,
  schools, non-profits.
• 246 collection sites/services (12 public sector)
• 45 transporters
• 7 processors
• New businesses started
• New processors established in state
• GREEN JOBS!

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92 of WA residents have an E-Cycle collection
site within 10 miles of home
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June 12, 2009
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• The mission of the WMMFA is to provide
  responsible end of life recycling for the
  citizens of Washington State in compliance with
  state law and Department of Ecology direction,
  and in the most cost-effective manner for our
  members.  The WMMFA is committed to being the
  lowest cost plan provider for mandated
  electronics recycling in Washington State, to
  provide fair and equitable expense allocation to
  our members, and to treat all stakeholders and
  service providers fairly and reasonably."
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• 220 participating manufacturers
• Transparency Open meetings, Monthly and Annual
  Reports, Auditable accounting of materials
  collected and where they go.
• Operating cost per lb. charged producers about
  .24
• 2010 WMMFA Admin cost about 3.5

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Private Sector Jobs and No Bloated Bureaucracy

• WMMFA Staffing
• 2.5 FTEs
• Department of Ecology Staffing
• 2.5 FTEs
• Private Sector Jobs (collectors, transporters,
  processors) estimated late 2009
• 140 net new, 360 continuing (OR and WA)
• Collection Sites almost entirely private
  sector, including private reuse charities (WA)

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The E-Cycle Washington program has been a
complete success for both our business and the
local community. Thanks to the E-Cycle program
we were able to create much needed jobs locally
as well as provide environmental stewardship by
saving over a million pounds of dangerous
electronic waste from reaching our landfills.
We are proud to be part of this groundbreaking
program and hope that it becomes a model for the
future of recycling and environmental
sustainability. Elcid Choi Ace Metal Company and
Mukilteo Recycling Center VP - Operations
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How are We Doing?

• First year of operation over 38.5 Million lbs.
• Second year of operation over 39.5 Million lbs.
• 39.5 M lbs. x .35 per lb. 13.82 Million
• 39.5 M lbs. x .24 per lb. 9.48 Million
• 98.5 of materials collected reused or recycled
  (1.5 wood debris landfilled)
• Additional units were sold or donated for reuse
  by qualified collectors before entering system

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How Are We Doing?

• Washington Year One 5.78 lbs. per capita
• 2010 5.92 lbs. per capita
• California Year One 1.81 lbs. per capita
• (4 years to reach WA year one levels)
• Maine Year One 3.16 lbs. per capita
• (4 years to reach WA year one levels)
• Oregon Year One 4.96 lbs. per capita

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What are We Collecting?

• Collected products 39.5 million lbs. in 2010
• Televisions 63.3
• Monitors 27.2
• Computers 9.5
• But What are We Missing?
• 144 million lbs. of covered and other e-waste
  being land-filled annually in WA!
• Televisions 58 M lbs.
• VCRs, DVDs, DVRs 3.3 M lbs.
• Computers and computer peripherals 13 M lbs.
• Gaming equipment 1.4 M lbs.
• GREEN JOBS and COMMERCE!

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What About Packaging?
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EPR For Packaging Worldwide

• First EPR law German Green Dot program 1991
• EU Packaging Directive 1994
• Now 33 EPR schemes covering 33 European Nations
• Various programs throughout Canada, notably
  Ontario.
• Stewardship Ontario
• provides funding for 50 blue box curbside
  service
• moving to 100
• Programs established or proposed in Asia,
  Australia, South America, United States

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EPR For Packaging in U.S.

• First comprehensive EPR legislative proposals for
  packaging
• Vermont 2010 introduced by beverage industry
• NRDC working w/ beverage industry and other
  stakeholders on model legislation for states
• EPA convened Dialogue Sustainable Financing of
  Municipal Recycling Packaging and Paper
• Steward Edge consulting in U.S., all EPR
  consultancies expanding staff and services.
• Sustainable Packaging Coalition addressing EOL
  management and responsibilities
• Numerous webinars sharing info between Europe,
  Canada, U.S.

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EPR For Packaging in Washington?

• Not eminent! But good to start talking about
  possibilities that would help us.
• Could ERP approaches
• Assist with covering curbside costs and expand
  what is collected curbside?
• Provide funding for MRF improvements and
  equipment upgrades?
• Address away-from-home collection options?
• Remove problem materials from curbside
  recycling/disposal streams? Plastic bags? Glass?
• Finance or establish collection options for rural
  areas/non-curbside areas?
• Vermont 2010 introduced by beverage industry
• Rhode Island 2011 introduced by NRDC w/ beverage
  industry
• EPA convened Dialogue Sustainable Financing of
  Municipal Recycling Packaging and Paper
• Steward Edge consulting in U.S., all EPR
  consultancies expanding staff and services.
• Sustainable Packaging Coalition addressing EOL
  management and responsibilities
• Numerous webinars sharing info between Europe,
  Canada, U.S.

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