NGO "ANOTHER WAY" (STICHTING BAKENS VERZET), NETHERLANDS, SUSTAINABLE INTEGRATED SELF-FINANCING DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES

Small scale local recycling and recovery of materials from solid wastes, including but not limited to plastics, is a feature of integrated development projects. The quantities involved in any given integrated development project area may often be too small to justify an application under the CDM system. On the hand, projects in poor urban areas and in areas close to larger urban centres may wish to profit from labour intensive recycling of waste materials coming from the urban centres. Any recycling activity with a relatively high labour content may be suitable for this application.

Recovery and recycling of plastics materials is covered under methodology AMS-III-AJ . The methodology can be adapted for use with non-hazardous materials including glass, paper, metals, eventually used batteries, etc. as well as for plastics. The CO2 savings are calculated by subtracting the energy used in the recycling process from the energy used to produce equivalent new material. The products being recycled must either have been manufactured in the host country or use raw materials (resins) imported from a non-industrialised (that is, a non-annex 1) country. Materials to be recycled can be obtained in a radius of 200 km from the recycling centre, and production using the recycled materials must take place within a radius of 200 km.

Definitions used in AMS-III-AJ include :

Mechanical Recycling:

“Physical/mechanical processes by which recyclable materials e.g., HDPE and LDPE plastics are obtained from municipal solid waste by way of separation, cleaning and compaction/packing for further processing in order to produce intermediate/finished products to substitute virgin raw materials in an industrial production chain. The process may be accomplished manually and/or using mechanical equipment including one or more of the following measures: washing of the separated LDPE and HDPE materials with hot water, drying, compaction, shredding and pelletizing.”

Recycling facility:

“Facility (ies) where the recyclables in the municipal solid waste collected are sorted, classified and prepared into marketable commodities for processing/manufacturing in single or multiple locations.”

Processing/Manufacturing facility:

“includes industrial processes to transform recyclable materials obtained from recycling facility into intermediate or finished products e.g., plastic resin.”

It is difficult to make widely applicable hypotheses for activities for integrated development projects under this application. The average CDM value is therefore deemed to be zero for the purposes of indicative CDM income calculations.

This will be reviewed when the first real project applications are being drafted.

Sect. 5 : Kyoto Treaty : Analysis of possibilities for finance. (Additional)

Menu for : 09. CDM funding indications for the selected applications and methodologies.

09-01. CO2 savings through the reduced use of non-renewable biomass for cooking purposes through the introduction of improved stoves.

09-02. Demonstration project for the recovery of forest lands and natural parks and reserves using traditional species.

09.03. Afforestation activities in settlements as defined for the distributed planting of fruit and nut trees and similar.

09-04. Small-scale agro-forestry activities – such as distributed bamboo plantations on grasslands and croplands.

09-05. Small-scale agro-forestry activities – distributed demonstration plantations for practical purposes for local use, including but not limited to Moringa plantations on marginal lands.

09-06. Demonstration afforestation and/or reforestation (AR) projects on wetlands using traditional species.

09-07. Demonstration afforestation and/or reforestation projects on lands having low inherent potential to support living biomass.

09-08. Use of renewable biomass instead of non-renewable biomass with improved cook stoves.

09-09. Recycling of human waste to avoid the use of industrial fertilisers.