1. The Tracking Trifecta: The Benefits of Adding Waste to Energy and Water Benchmarking June 26, 2017

2. Today’s Panelists Chief, Resource Conservation Branch
Sara Neff
Senior Vice President
Kilroy Realty Corporation
Ron Vance
Chief, Resource Conservation Branch
U.S. EPA
Mike Zatz
Chief, Market Sectors Group
ENERGY STAR Commercial & Industrial Branch
U.S. EPA

3. Sustainable Materials Management
Ron Vance
Chief
Resource Conservation Branch
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
June 26, 2017

4. What is Sustainable Materials Management?
A systematic approach to using and reusing materials more productively over their entire lifecycles

5. Weight of Nations: Material Outflows from Industrial Economies, WRI
Why is SMM so Critical?
“One half to three quarters of annual resource inputs to industrial economies is returned to the environment as wastes within just one year.”
Weight of Nations: Material Outflows from Industrial Economies, WRI
Source: Material extraction data from UNEP
(forthcoming in 2016b), GDP data from UNSD (2015).

6. Why SMM? Materials Management accounts for 42% of U.S. GHG emissions.
In 2014, the 89 million tons of MSW recycled and composted provided a reduction of 181 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions.
The Economic Impact of the U.S. Recycling and Reuse Industry:
757,000 jobs
1.57 jobs for every 1,000 tons of materials recycled
$36.6 billion in wages; and
$6.7 billion in tax revenues
In the U.S. in 2014, $6.8 billion was spent to bury materials with a recycling value of $8.9 billion.

7. Thank you!
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8. Waste Tracking in Portfolio Manager
Mike Zatz
Chief, Market Sectors Group
ENERGY STAR Commercial & Industrial Branch
U.S. EPA
June 26, 2017

10. New Waste and Materials Tab

11. Waste Tracking: Basic Terminology
Waste Material Type – The 29 different categories of materials that you can track (e.g. trash, mixed recyclables, batteries, food scraps, etc.)
Waste Management Method – One of 4 options for how you manage your waste and materials
Donated/Reused
Recycled
Composted
Disposed
Disposed Waste Destination – One of 4 options for where your disposed waste (e.g. trash) goes:
Landfill
Incineration
Waste to Energy (refers to incineration for energy recovery, not to landfill with gas recovery)
Other/Unknown
Waste Diversion – the sum of the Composted, Recycled, and Donated/Reused Materials (i.e. everything that is not disposed)

12. Inventory of Materials for Tracking
29 Material Types
4 Methods of Management
72 Unique Combinations

13. Waste and Materials Management Metrics
Overall Aggregate Metrics
Total Waste (Disposed and Diverted)
Total Diverted Materials
Includes: Recycled, Composted, and Donated/Reused Materials Only
Does not include: waste-to-energy because in this case the waste is still destroyed
Total for each management method (e.g. Disposed, Recycled)
Total for each disposal destination (e.g. Landfill, Incineration, Waste-To-Energy)
Detailed Metrics each type of waste (e.g. Recycled – Cardboard)
Total Cost and Tons
Estimated Data Flag
All metrics can be pulled in a custom report and download to Excel
If you want to create different aggregate metrics you can
Can perform your own calculations for universal waste, energy recovery, or other areas of interest relative to your sustainability goals.
 The waste data does not impact your ENERGY STAR score or calculated emissions

14. Waste Programs Now and Tomorrow
Sara Neff
SVP, Sustainability
Kilroy Realty Corporation
June 26, 2017
@kilroygreen

15. Current Waste Programs

16. Why do we care?

17. The Future of Waste
AB 939

18. BOMA Water and Waste Challenge
Two-year challenge to benchmark consumption/costs (2018) and implement best practices (2019)
Utilizes ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager for quarterly reporting
Participants receive guidance and technical assistance
BOMA will produce reports and case studies using aggregate data and success stories

19. Benefits to Participants
Better understand and track usage
Compare performance to peers
Receive guidance on best practices
Reduce operating costs
Expand sustainability efforts
Earn recognition