Eco-town project based on 3R

Mushtaq Ahmed Memon
Programme Officer, UNEP IETC

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Overview of the Presentation

 Defining Industrial eco-town
 Integrated solid waste management (ISWM) based on 3R
 IETC Activities on ISWM and eco towns
 IETC eco-town project – Phase 2 (2013 to 2016)

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Defining Industrial Eco-town
Industrial eco-town is based on the concept of venous industry thatis traditionally referred as that industry which turns solid wastes

into reusable resources and then uses them in production; itincludes two stages: from solid wastes to raw materials, and fromraw materials to products. The character of venous industry¡ is toshape the industrial chain based on waste – recycled resource product.

However, we can improve this definition by including all wastes andturning waste into raw materials as well as energy source forindustrial production

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Eco Town Concept
Waste Generation
Industrial
Municipal
Agricultural
DebrisWastewater / sludge
OthersWaste Minimization
and Reuse Strategies(Awareness andeducation, policies,technologies,
financing andvoluntary)

Waste Recycling
Strategies(Awareness andeducation, policies,
technologies,
financing andvoluntary)

Waste Recycling(Material/Energy)
Industrial
Commercial
Agricultural
Residential
OthersIntegrated Solid Waste Management
Challenges for Waste Management
1. Waste generation – rapid growth in quantity andchanging composition in line with change in life styles
2. Severity of impacts – impacts on public health, natural
resources including water bodies and disasters(landslides and fires at dumpsites)
3. Increasing costs of waste management and lack offinancing mechanisms
4. Limited infrastructure and policy framework for
efficient and effective waste management system
5. Lack of political priority
6. GHG gas emissions and co-benefits for climate change
and global warming (waste to energy, landfill gas
recovery and utilization and diverting waste forresource recovery)5

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Integrated Solid Waste Management
Based on 3R Approach

7Pilot Projects on ISWM

•Wuxi New District, China – 2008•

Pune City, India – 2008•

Maseru City, Lesotho – 2009•

Matale City, Sri Lanka – 2009•

Novo Hamburgo, Brazil – 2009•

Nairobi – 2010•

Bahir Dar, Ethiopia – 2010

•Pathum Thani, Thailand – 2011

•Addis Ababa – 2011

•Danang, Vietnam - 2012

Kampot, Cambodia - 2012
Flood waste in Thailand 2012

8Training- Classroom as well as field training andtraining is followed by the project
activities for each ISWM manual (e.g.
waste data, assessment of waste
management system, target setting,identification of stakeholders
concerns) and to develop ISWM Plan
- Regional training with various partners
including UNITAR-Cifal Jeju, UN-ESCAP,
and UNEP ROAP
- IETC provides training through in-housecapacity, targeted either directly toproject teams or through training fortrainers

9CCAC MSW Initiative
Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) for Shortlived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs)
Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Initiative
Current cities from Asia:
Dhaka (Bangladesh), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
Penang (Malaysia), and Tokyo (Japan
Current Activities:
Rapid assessment (city assessments)
Task force
Knowledge platform
Twining of cities

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ISWM and Eco Towns
Eco town concept is one of the strategies to implement ISWM incities with industrial clusters. To minimize the waste and to reuse
and recycle the waste optimally, following steps are essential:• Waste inventory, composition and sources including location• Review of current waste management system including
policies, institutions, financing, technology andinfrastructure, and stakeholders roles• Target setting based on the above information (waste dataand current waste management system)• Stakeholders concerns (environmental, financial, social andtechnical) for meeting the targets are taken into account• Strategies (awareness and education, policies, technologies,financing and voluntary) based on the above four sets of
information to revitalize industrial clusters in line with eco
town concept

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Eco Town Project Cycle
Baseline Reports(Waste quantity and composition withprojections andCurrent waste management System)
Industrial, Municipal, Agricultural,Debris, Wastewater / sludge, and others

Target Setting(Reduce, reuse and recycle)
Stakeholders Concerns(Economic, social, technicaland environmental)

Strategies for Eco Towns(Awareness and education,policies, technologies,financing and voluntary)

Demonstration of strategies(Awareness and education,policies, technologies,financing and voluntary)

Disseminationof eco town activities(Guidelines, project reports
and lessons learned)

12Main Considerations for Eco Towns
1. Costs and benefits of technologies andaffordability of users (current and future with new
financing mechanisms including user fees, clean
development mechanism (CDM) projects, orearnings by converting waste into a resource)
2. Technical capacity to adapt, operate and maintaintechnologies (roadmap to develop technicalcapacity)
3. Policy support for technological solutions
4. Social perspectives including employment andincome distribution (for example informal sector),gender, and awareness and continuous learning

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Main Activities to Promote Eco Towns
Phase 1 (2009 to 2012)cities
Penang – Malaysia, Bandung – Indonesia, and Shanyang – China
To follow up on the activities conducted during previous Phase (2009-2011) andto finalize the activities and reports. One of two cities will be selected toshowcase the efforts of Eco-Town based on previous phase experiences. This casestudy will be useful for new cities to undertake the eco town project.

Phase 2 (2013 to 2016)
1. Strategy Paper
The aim of eco-town strategy paper is to build the local andnational capacity on detailed planning and implementation ofeco-town strategies and policies in line with the IETC programmeon ISWM based on 3R. This strategy paper on strategies andpolicies for eco-towns will also include the details of the projects
for the potential eco-towns to develop an implementation
strategy, including fund-raising. Following activities will be
carried out to undertake this work:

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Pilot activities
During the second phase of eco-towns, IETC will expand its
geographical coverage to include more cities/municipalities tosupport pilot activities on eco-towns. For the pilot
cities/countries, capacity will be build on following areas, leadingto development of eco-town projects for the respective cities:
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Waste inventory, composition and sources including location
Current waste management system including policies, institutions,financing, technology and infrastructure, and stakeholders roles
Target setting based on the above information (waste data andcurrent waste management system)
Stakeholders concerns (environmental, financial, social andtechnical) for meeting the targets
Strategies (awareness and education, policies, technologies,
financing and voluntary) based on the above four sets of
information to revitalize industrial clusters in line with eco town
concept
Technical support for implementation of the strategies on pilot
basis in selected cities/municipalities

15Budget and timeline

Ballpark budget:
Strategy and policy paper including expert and stakeholder workshops = 100,000 USD
Five pilot country projects = 5X200000 = 1,000,000 USD

Documentation of lessons learned and dissemination workshops = 10X10000 = 100,000 USD
Guidance manual and regional training workshops = 5X40,000 = 200,000 USD
Grand Total = USD 1,400,000

Thank You…

28/01/2013

United Nations Environment Programme
Division of Technology, Industry and Economics
International Environmental Technology Centre

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