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A Changing World - Gaining Waste

Simon Penney Promise Consulting 15 Windsor Drive Falkirk Stirlingshire FK1 5QN T. 0 (44) 1324 638786 E: simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W: www.promiseconsulting.org.uk. A Changing World - Gaining Waste. Presentation Outline. A world of waste - sources and impacts Beyond recycling -

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A Changing World - Gaining Waste

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  1. Simon PenneyPromise Consulting15 Windsor DriveFalkirkStirlingshireFK1 5QNT. 0 (44) 1324 638786E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.ukW:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk A Changing World - Gaining Waste

  2. Presentation Outline • A world of waste - • sources and impacts • Beyond recycling - • alternative lifestyle models • The disposable economy - • prospects for change Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  3. A WORLD OF WASTESources and Impacts Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  4. A World of Waste Payatas Manila Philippines WENT Landfill Hong Kong Tsunami SE Asia - BBC news Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  5. Definitions • Merriam-Webster defines waste as "refuse from places of human or animal habitation." • “a resource that is not safely recycled back into the environment or the marketplace." ZeroWasteAmerica • Any subject or object in the categories set out in Annex 1 of the Waste Framework Directive (91/156/EEC), which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard” - European Union • “What people live off and children work on” - Mission Worker NW Nicaragua Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  6. Waste GenerationSources • Municipal Solid Waste (Largely Domestic) • Industry (Industrial/Hazardous/Special) • Commercial (Similar to MSW) • Construction and Demolition • Agricultural and Forestry • Mining and Quarrying • Energy Production Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  7. Global Waste Generation • Dublin Report • Global MSW increased by 7% on 2003 • Global Total Estimated to be • 1.84 Billion Tonnes • Predicted between 2004 and 2008 • to increase further by 31.1% • to 2.4 Billion Tonnes Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  8. International Waste Generation Ref: Combined Internet References Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  9. EU Waste Generation Ref.: Combined Internet References Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  10. UK WASTE GENERATION • Current total estimate is 434 million tonnes per annum, (2 hours to fill Royal Albert Hall!!) • Increasing between 2 and 7% per annum • Approx. 80% to Landfill • Recycling Rate of approx. 10% (One of worst in Europe, Austria at 48%) • 2% incineration • No of Sites to manage this waste have decreased Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  11. Impacts • Waste generated by human society has impacts on all three pillars of Sustainability and affects human life and the life of other species at every scale • Environment - Social - Economic Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  12. Environmental Impacts • Air pollution • Global Warming and Climate Change • Water Resource Pollution • Noise, Dust, Odour and Local Nuisance • Degradation of local amenity • Landuse • Secondary costs, Transport costs • Material extraction costs Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  13. Social Impacts • Increase in burden of waste management • on certain sections of community • Increase of Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY) cases • Increase in litigation • Increase in general community concern • of health effects of wastes management • Lack of job generation due to poor use of materials Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  14. Economic Impacts • Material Resource Efficiency • Resource Management • Legislative compliance • Remediation costs. • Health and Safety • Market place image • Marketability of the organisation or city. • Property value blight Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  15. BEYOND RECYCLINGAlternative Lifestyle Models Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  16. UK and EU Development of Wastes Management • Before 1970’s Rubbish Disposal • 1970’s Wastes Disposal • 1980’s Wastes Management • 1990’s (Late) Wastes and Resources • 2005+ Sustainable Material Resources Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  17. Current Concepts (EU) • Producer and Consumer Responsibility • Proximity Principle • Self Sufficiency • Best Practicable Environmental Option (BPEO/BAT) • Precautionary Principle • Duty of Care Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  18. Legislation and Regulation • Basel Convention on Shipments of waste • WEEE • Landfill Directive • Environment Agency (England and Wales) • SEPA (Scotland) • Environment and Heritage Service (NI) • LA’s Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  19. Waste Hierarchy REF:SEPA2004 Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  20. Other Models • Sustainable Consumption/Development • Consumer Responsibility • Zero Waste - New Zealand • Industrial and Human Ecology • Viewing human society as organic or organism (Gaia) • I.e wastes should only be produced that are used. • New Age type philosophies • Deep-Ecology, how are humans to be valued • Ecological primacy, the natural world seeks justice due to waste (Creation Groans???? - Rms 8) • A biblical based Christian Environmental Ethic • Relatively new field Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  21. Christian Based Ethic • Ethics - the rights of the individual versus the rights of society - this is a key question in environment and waste management • Stewardship - Of God World’s and Resources • Responsibility - To God for this • Accountability - By God about this • Love - To love our neighbour as ourselves Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  22. Stewardship • Can our current use of materials and the wastes they produce and the economies they feed be considered biblical stewardship? • What would Biblical stewardship of materials resources look like and how would it differ from our current system? • Waste production is a function of economic activity and a symptom of inequity. It is a measure of how we steward the planet. Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  23. Responsibility • Responsibility to our neighbour • While there is nothing wrong with profit in the marketplace, in some cases we must voluntarily limit our profit in order to protect the environment. (Dr. Ray Bohlin) • As individual Christians and as the Church do we take our responsibility for this stewardship seriously enough. Do we love our neighbour? Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  24. Accountability • Accountability to God • As with other gifts and resources that God has provided us with, one day we will be asked about how we used the Earth’s material resources, what will our answer be? • The excess generation of wastes and their mis-management may be morally wrong and therefore sinful. Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  25. Economies of Love “Imagine an economy based on Christian love rather than greed.” - heaven? • Eternal rather than sustainable • Efficient and Effective • Demands and supplies perfectly matched rather than partially (Perfect Relationship) • No waste produced, all materials utilised Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  26. THE DISPOSAL ECONOMYProspects for Change Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  27. Prospects for Change • Increasing Environmental and Wastes specific legislation • Increasing public awareness of the need for Change • Development of National and International waste strategies • Increasing recycling rates • Better design processes, new techniques and methods • Slight decoupling of waste and economic generation • Research • Improving Technology • But no change in morality & waste generation is growing. Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  28. “Since the roots of our troubles are so largely religious, the remedy must also be essentially religious, whether we call it that or not”Professor Lynn White Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  29. A Prophetic Call • The Christian Church needs to lead on this important area, it is an issue of morality. • This is a real opportunity for a reclaimed Christian Ethic to influence governmental policy. • It is a wonderful opportunity for evangelism in both the developed and developing world. Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  30. A Prophetic Call • The environment will become a key area for Christian Mission during the next century • Climate Change Impacts, both in developing and developed economies • Waste is a fundamental component of this challenge and is directly linked to economic productivity, Climate Change and human health. • The poorest are likely to suffer most unless!! Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  31. Prospects for ChangePeople “Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai receives Nobel Peace Prize” - 2004 Advisor for WCC and now Environment Minister Kenya "partners together in one of the greatest challenges that this world has ever had to face" Michael Meacher - Environment Minister (2000) talking About the Church Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  32. Prospects for ChangeProjects • Target Earth • John Ray Initiative • Seminars and publications • Policy Influence • Au Sable Institute USA, • Education • Community Programmes Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  33. Prospects for Change DEPENDS ON YOU AND ME Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  34. Further Information • http://www.unep.org/ • United Nations Environment Programme • http://www.creationcare.org/ • Evangelical Environmental Network • http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk • Environment Agency for England and Wales • http://www.iswa.org/ • International Solid Waste Association Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  35. Summary • Global Waste Generation is increasing • Waste has many negative env/soc/eco impacts • Waste production is morally questionable • It impacts are undoubtedly evil, opportunity for mission • The problem is essentially “religious” rather than technical • Christianity is mandated to lead, but must work in partnership • Change will happen individual by individual, government by government, nation by nation Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

  36. Questions Simon Penney Chartered Wastes Manager Chartered Environmentalist Promise Consulting2004 - 15 Windsor Drive FALKIRK FK1 5QN T: 01324 638786 M: 07976310984 E:simon@promiseconsulting.org.uk W:www.promiseconsulting.org.uk

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