UNEP-IETC Activities onon Waste Management
The 7th Asia-Pacific Eco-Business Forum
14-15 February 2011
Kawasaki, Japan

Surya Prakash CHANDAK
Deputy Director
UNEP DTIE IETC

IETC Activities on Waste
UNEP GC decision 25/8 on Waste
UNEP Programme of Work
Basel 9th COP on Waste Management
Millennium Development Goals
CSD 18 and 19 on Waste
Support to MEAs
Field Projects:•Integrated Solid Waste Management•Waste Plastics•E-waste•Waste Agricultural Biomass

Normative function:

Global Partnership onWaste Management

Information Platform onWaste Management•Guidelines and training•Waste and climate change•Compendium of technologies

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Focal Areas of Intervention•

Integrated Solid Waste Management(ISWM) at local level•

Management of specific waste
streams
Converting waste plastics into fuel(supported by MOFA Japan)
Converting waste agricultural biomass intomaterial/energy resource
E-waste management
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IETC Activities on ISWM
Demonstration projects:•

ISWM Plan for Wuxi New District, China – 2008•

ISWM Plan for Pune City, India – 2008

•ISWM Plan for Maseru City, Lesotho – 2009•

ISWM Plan for Matale City, Sri Lanka – 2009•

ISWM Plan for Novo Hamburgo, Brazil – 2009

•ISWM Plan for Nairobi, Kenya – 2010•

ISWM Plan for Bahir Dar, Ethiopia – 2010•

ISWM Plan for Pathum Thani, Thailand – 2011
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IETC Activities on ISWM
Normative work and capacity building:•ISWM Training Package on ISWM - online•

Regional Training for Africa in Mauritius –Mar 09•

Regional Training for Asia-Pacific in Osaka –Oct 09•

Regional Training for Asia-Pacific in Seoul –July10•

Regional Training on SAT for ISWM – Dec10•

South-South Cooperation on ISWM – 2008
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Important Outcomes andfollow-up impact of ISWM work•Wuxi ISWM is a showcase project in China•

Pune started implementing the Plan and offered
reduced property tax for source segregation•UNDP started negotiations with Maseru City toimplement ISWM under public-private partnerships•

UN-ESCAP is developing Integrated Resource Centrefor waste recycling in Matale City under support
from Gates Foundation•

ISWM Plan for Nairobi is being followed up by JICA

•Bahir Dar project has created a lot interest in Addis
Ababa

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Important Outcomes andfollow-up impact of ISWM work•

Capacity of various institutions is built – Cape TownUniversity (South Africa), University of Mauritius,
University of Nairobi, University of Jambo Kenyata,
National Cleaner Production Centre (Sri Lanka),Thammasat University (Thailand), Souther Jiangsau
University (China), and Forum for Environment(Ethiopia) – human resources available at local,
national and regional level•Four volumes of ISWM Guidelines are becoming
popular and requests have been received for local
translations (e.g. China)

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IETC Activities on Waste Streams•

E-waste management:
onlineManuals on E-waste Inventory Manual on E-waste Management online
E-waste management Plan for Phnom Penh City, Cambodia
Regional workshop for Asia-Pacific•Converting agricultural waste biomass into a resource:
Compendium of Technologies online
Piloting in Nepal and Sri Lanka –Completed
Piloting in Pakistan and Philippines –In progress
Recycling of waste palm trees in Malaysia –Signed
Regional Workshop for Asia-Pacific•Converting waste plastic into a resource:
Compendium of technologies Piloting in Philippines and Thailand Regional Workshop for Asia-PacificonlineIn progress•Waste management in the context of climate change
Report was launched in Cancun – 2nd volume to be prepared•Destruction Technologies for Hazardous Waste – 2010-11In progress
8Important Outcomes andfollow-up of Activities on E-waste••••••IETC manuals and field project has attracted a lot of interest as
seen from the continuous requests
GEC and IETC organized a regional workshop in Osaka –participants requested to develop 3rd Manual on E-waste
focusing Take-back system
In addition to governments (China, Malaysia, Indonesia,Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Pakistan, Bangladesh) many
private companies (Panasonic, Sharp, Hitachi, Mitsui, Canon,etc.) and academia presented their work and requested IETC
for training workshops on regular basis
China is translating IETC manuals and other countries are reprinting for local use
JICA’s interest to undertake E-waste projects in cooperation
with IETC – First project for Malaysia was discussed and JICA
informed that they have to find out the modalities to work
together (still waiting for their response)
MOE Japan’s interest to involve IETC for ground activities andtraining on E-waste management (they mentioned that theywould discuss with SBC to get IETC’s involvement based on thesuccessful work done by IETC)
9Important Outcomes and followup of Activities on Waste Plastics•

First time, a detailed study carried out to ascertain thepossibilities for converting waste plastics into fuel•

AIST (Japan) assisted compendium of technologies wascompiled•

GEC and IETC organized experts workshop where manytechnology providers made presentations and discussed thepossibilities for B2B partnerships with partners andgovernments in developing countries•

Pilot activities are being carried out in Thailand and Philippines(to be completed by end of 2011)•Lessons learned will be very useful to address the myths andhypothesis about waste plastic recycling in developingcountries•

Final dissemination workshop is planned for November 2011(either in Osaka or in Bangkok)•AIST is holding a workshop in Tsukuba on 1-3 March 2011 tointroduce technologies for waste plastics conversion into fuel10

Important Outcomes andfollow-up of Activities onWaste Agricultural Biomass
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UNEP brought this issue at national and international level – as
now project outcomes are part of UNEP stories (30 days 30ways) launched in Cancun as well as part of UNEP annual report
Most of the international focus on waste management is forcities and industrial areas and attention on waste agricultural
biomass was limited despite of fact that this contributes heavily
to environment including climate change, public health andeconomics
An active south-south cooperation and B2B partnerships weredeveloped – vital experiences for international community
expand the focus on waste agricultural biomass conversion – Aproject proposal with MOFA Japan is under consideration
A new project with Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM)
has been signed for recycling of waste palm trees. FRIM is also
working with JIRCAS (Japan) to develop technology forproducing ethanol from waste palm trees
GEC and IETC organized a regional workshop in Osaka wherethe governments discussed about the implementation oftechnologies for waste agricultural biomass conversion

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Waste and Climate Change•

UNEP publication on Waste and Climate Change – Global
Trends and Strategy Framework was launched in Cancun and it
has been widely discussed and appreciated – media in many
countries has picked up this report•

IETC and ISWA pushed the agenda of waste and climate change
during a pre-COP event in Copenhagen and received a lot ofsupport from scientists, policy makers and private sector•

IETC was invited by Mayor of London as key-note speaker for
C40 Cities for Climate Change Workshop on Waste
management in London•Discussing with GEC to develop Volume 2 of the publication onWaste and Climate Change – to cover the case studies andtechnologies

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Resource Augmentation in Viet Nam
E-waste Inventory - Manual 1
E-waste Management - Manual 2
E-waste “Take-back System” - Manual 3 In progress
Waste Characterization & Quantification - Manual 1
Assessment of Waste Management System - Manual 2Target Setting and Issues of Concern for ISWM - Manual 3
How to develop ISWM Plan – Manual 4Compendium of Technologies for Converting Waste Agricultural
Biomass into Resource
Compendium of Technologies for Converting Waste Plastics into
Resource
Sustainability Assessment of Technologies (SAT) Manual - In progress
Assessment Methodology for Waste Plastics
Compendium of Technologies for Converting Waste Plastics into
Resource
Waste and Climate Change: Global Trends and Strategy Framework
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Global Partnership onWaste Management

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Objectives of GPWM
To protect human health and environment,
and to tackle adverse impacts of unsoundmanagement of waste
To promote resource efficiency throughwaste prevention and by recovering valuable
material and/or energy from waste
To enhance international cooperation,knowledge management and sharing

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Information Platform- to promote, share and exchange information on
solid waste related issues in different countries,regions or cities.
- currently developed as a prototype with in-housecapacity and resources available to UNEP-IETC.
- full scale platform to host the information andlinks to the information of other entities.

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Information Platform Structure

17Waste Baseline Data18

Guidelines, Compendiums,
Training Materials

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Proposed GC decision 26/8 “Waste”•Requests the Executive Director to provide further assistance todeveloping countries in their efforts to strengthen national
implementation of an integrated waste management approach throughthe programme of work and budget;•Also requests the Executive Director to support Governments inenhancing access to energy in rural areas through the conversion ofwaste agricultural biomass into energy, as reflected in the programmeof work and budget;•Urges the Executive Director to provide more intensive
capacity-building and technology-demonstration projects, in particularin urban areas, to promote the “3R” (reduce, reuse and recycle)
approach in developing countries;•Requests the Executive Director to scale up the work in the field ofgreenhouse gas mitigation by converting waste to energy through thedevelopment of guidance materials and capacity-building;•Calls upon Governments and other relevant stakeholders to support theinitiative by the United Nations Environment Programme to set up a
Global Partnership on Waste Management, by providing additional
resources and taking the lead in partnerships in their respective coreareas related to waste management;
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Emerging Cooperation•

KOICA through UNEP-ROAP is seeking increasing
cooperation on waste management, especially for
integrated solid waste management, technologies,partnerships, and training•

ISWA on waste and climate change as well as for
Global Partnership on Waste Management•

UNCRD on 3R and integrated solid wastemanagement•

Secretariat of Basel Convention on E-waste•

Academia and other civil society organizations on
research and capacity building

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