Plastic Sustainability Update Changing Challenges to Opportunties. APRA AGM June 19, 2018 Joe Hruska, VP Sustainability

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1 Plastic Sustainability Update Changing Challenges to Opportunties APRA AGM June 19, 2018 Joe Hruska, VP Sustainability

2 Plastics in our lives more than packaging (1) 2

3 Plastics in our lives more than packaging (2) 3

4 Take a virtual walk around your house 4

5 Sustainability Plastics Recovery Leadership Strategic Focus: 1. Diversion Metrics 2. Outreach 3. Stakeholder Engagement 4. Recovery Pilots 5. Advocacy 5

6 Sustainability Plastics Recovery Leadership Work collaboratively with stakeholders to improve the sustainability of plastics by increasing the diversion of plastics from landfill and reducing marine litter, through use of all 5 R s. 6

7 Quantifying Benchmarks Access to National Recycling Nearing 100% % 94-96% 70% 66-70% 71% 60% 44% Plastics Access:

8 84% collected plastics recycled in Canada Moore Recycling Assocs Post-Consumer Plastic Collected Year to Year 2 (kgs) 12% - 16% exported 8

9 Expanding Film Plastics Recycling to Retail Walmart Canada 635 Schools collected 1.9 million bags for recycling in 2018! That's equal to 15,000 kg of plastic bags that are now recycled back into new products. Source: RCO s plasticbaggrab.com 9

10 CPIA teen video contest - plastics in your life Contest open until end of September great prizes! 10

11 China Green Sword 11

12 Two dozen types of scrap imports banned by China in 2018 Eight types of postconsumer plastic scrap; One type of unsorted scrap paper; 11 types of used or scrap textile materials; and four types of metal slag that contain vanadium. Recycling Today 12

13 CPIA s results of data-gathering: Canadawide Update British Columbia Materials moving Prairies & Quebec Some issues reported Maritimes Film & mixed rigids, NS Alberta Film & mixed rigids Other plastics moving to end markets 112 people examined tool some input data; some brokers and recyclers indicated they have capacity Map source: freetemplates.com Ontario Material moving, minor issues 13

14 Reasons why we are moving most plastic bales Quality Loyalty EPR 14

15 And More Challenges G7 Plastics Oceans Charter 15

16 Plastics partnering to be part of the solution Plastics Sustainability Coalition Ottawa April 24,

17 Our View Plastic and other litter in the environment is unacceptable Plastics deliver significant societal benefits, including: Energy, GHG & resource savings Innovations that improve health care, reduce food spoilage & improve quality of life Benefits are threatened if plastic litter harms our natural environment The plastics value chain is a partner to reduce waste

18 Environmental Cost (US$ Billion) Plastics and Sustainability Environmental cost of plastic use in consumer goods is 3.8 times less than alternatives $600 $500 Plastic Alternatives $533 Billion $400 $300 $200 $100 Business as Usual $139 Billion $0 -$100 BUSINESS AS USUAL OCEAN DAMAGE PLASTIC ALTERNATIVES END OF LIFE MANAGEMENT Trucost, Plastics and Sustainability: A Valuation of Environmental Benefits, Costs and Opportunities for Continuous Improvement, July 2016.

19 Reduced Food Waste Source: Packaging in Perspective, Advisory Committee on Packaging, Supported by INCPEN

20 Perceptions of Plastics But Plastics Are Essential to SDGs 20

21 Latest Science & Global Declaration z

22 Top 5 sources of marine litter and G7 countries (2010 tonnes Jambeck, Science Magazine,2015) 9,000,000 8,000,000 7,000,000 6,000,000 5,000,000 4,000,000 3,000,000 2,000,000 1,000,

23 G7 - Mismanaged Plastic Waste - Jambeck, Science Magazine, 2015 Rank by volume Rank per capita US Japan UK Italy Germany France Canada

24 Plastics in a Circular Economy Natural Gas & Oil 97% Fuels, Power, Other 3 % PLASTIC PRODUCTION FABRICATIO N USE CONSUMER REUSE POST-USE COLLECTION RECYCLING ENERGY RECOVERY

25 Plastics Recovery: Diverse Yields Plastics Non-Recycled Plastics Recycling Energy/Chemicals Landfill Pyrolysis Waste-to- Energy Engineered Solid Fuels Gasification Transportation Fuels Crude Oil & Naphtha Chemicals, Monomers 25 & Feedstocks

26 And More Challenges Attacks on all plastics Calls for bans on single use plastics science & facts not enough emergence of twitter policy making is a threat to Circular Economy and EPR Retail Bag Bans Food service packaging Straws 26

27 G7 Plastics Charter Opportunity for positive change New Shared Societal Sustainability Goals: o Goal: 100% of plastics packaging is re-used, recycled and recovered by 2040 o Interim Goals: 100% of plastics packaging is recyclable or recoverable by % of Canadian resin manufacturing sites operated by CPIA members will participate in Operation Clean Sweep-Blue by 2022, 27

28 The future is now 28

29 New definition of plastics recycling Smelting Molecule-to-molecule re-engineering Photo courtesy of Green Mantra Technologies Melting 29

30 Innovations plastic management & recycling Convert post consumer plastics into original state molecules to be reused in new products 30

31 Innovations in plastic management & recycling Materials Recovery for the Future Pilot Source: 31

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33 Benefits of source reduction Source: Ameripen,

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35 Questions and CPIA Contacts National/Maritimes/Prairies Joe Hruska, Dave Thomson, Quebec Stephen Tramley, Ontario Joe Hall Alberta Tammy Schwass, British Columbia Craig Foster, 35

36 Welcome your thoughts and suggestions CPIA website: Joe Hruska VP Sustainability ext. 36