LABELLING AGRICULTURAL PLASTIC WASTE FOR VALORISING THE WASTE STREAM Alexandre Dangis ( ) EuPC European Plastic Converters 1 Workprogramme EuPF AGRI TWG – Prepare input for EU Commission Labelagriwaste project • Recommendations for legal requirements to EU Commission – Stimulate local/regional collection systems of plastics agricultural waste – Define input specifications together with PE films recyclers by working with EuPR Film group – Maximum 2 meetings/ year – Participation limited to EU AGRI film producers & recyclers • Duration 36 months • Industry leader: spanish company tbc 2 Participants - consortium IAG's: Industrial Associations/Groupings Partic. Participant name Participant short Country no. name EUROPEAN PLASTICS CONVERTERS 14 EUPC B ASSOCIATION EUROPEAN PLASTICS RECYCLERS 2 EUPR B ASSOCIATION 3 CICLOPLAST CICLOPLAST E PANHELLENIC CONFEDERATION OF UNIONS OF 4 PASEGES EL AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES CONFAGRI- 5 CONFAGRICOLTURA I COLTURA FEDERATION LANGUEDOCIENNE DE LA 6 FLCFL F COOPERATION DES FRUITS ET LEGUMES 7 PANAGROTIKOS SYNDESMOS CYPRUS PANAGROTIKOS CY 3 Participants and consortium SMES Group Partic. Participant name Participant Country no. short name 8 ALFA EDILE R.R.L. ECOLOGY DEPARTMENT ALFAEDILE I INDUSTRIAL SEVILLANA RECICLAJE DE 9 INSERPLASA E PLASTICOS S.I. 10 PATI PATI I 11 SUOMEN UUSIOMUOVI OY SUOMEN FI POLYECO S.A. MANAGEMENT AND 12 POLYECO EL VALORIZATION OF WASTE INDUSTRY 4 Participants and consortium RTD Performers Partic. Participant name Participant Country no. short name 1 AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS AUA EL CENTRE NATIONAL DU MECHANISME 15 AGRICOLE, DU GENIE RURAL, DES EAUX ET CEMAGREF F DES FORETS 16 FUNDACION GAIKER GAIKER E 17 UNIVERSITY OF BARI PROGESA DEPARTMENT UNIBA I 18 UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART USTUTT D 19 TITAN CEMENT SA TITAN EL 5 Agricultural plastics 6 Agricultural plastic wastes Today: • A large portion of agricultural films are left on the field or burnt uncontrollably by the farmers releasing harmful substances with the associated negative consequences to the environment. • Aesthetic pollution and landscape degradation of regions of natural beauty. South Europe… only? • Safety of the food produced in such fields? IMAGE ISSUE FOR PLASTICS 7 LABELAGRIWASTE: Objectives (1) • Develop standardised procedures and integrated methodologies to label the agricultural plastic waste streams in order to facilitate their routing to the best alternative processing and final disposal: (cid:1) most environmental friendly and economically valuable and technically feasible solution 8 LABELAGRIWASTE: Objectives (2) • Transforming used agricultural plastics into a commodity that can be transported across boundaries, traded in the open market and routed to the best alternative processing and disposal. • Developing a systematic labelling scheme and policy recommendations for the appropriate disposal and/or utilisation of the agricultural plastic wastes. This will support relevant standardisation CEN and/or other legislation activities for cleaner environment and economy of natural resources. 9 LABELAGRIWASTE: Objectives (3) • Developing farming practices that will improve the quality of the waste • Maximizing the range of the specs a waste stream should meet to qualify for a processing/ disposal option. • 5 Work Packages have been set up by the consortium 10