1. Organics Action Plan: Update
Karyn Hogan, Peel Region
Organics Committee Chair
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2. MWA Spring Workshop May 2017
Organics Action Plan
Action 10: Implement an
action plan to reduce the
volume of food and organic
wastes going to landfill
The Food and Organic Waste Action Plan will focus on regulatory and non-regulatory actions and consider how to prevent food from becoming waste and to recover food and organic wastes from the waste stream. In developing the action plan, the province will consider:
The entire supply chain, including pre-consumer & postconsumer organic waste
Recovery in high rise & multi-residential dwellings
Food rescue & donations, while ensuring that donated food products are safe for human or animal consumption
Factors affecting recovery of food and organic wastes on a regional scale, including rural and northern communities
Identification of regional infrastructure capacity & gaps
Data gathering, public reporting & performance measures
Measures to promote a level playing field
Third party monitoring, audits, transparency through public reporting
Regulatory actions (e.g. source separation requirements, disposal bans)
Non-regulatory measures (e.g. streamlined approvals, consumer, processor & industry best practices)
Cost & benefit analysis, including cost efficiency & program effectiveness
To support markets for recovered food and organic materials, the Food and Organic Waste Action Plan will also consider opportunities for:
Developing new products or supporting existing innovations that use or integrate recovered food and organic materials
Digestate and compost to recover nutrients and improve soil health
Collaboration between government and industry to update regulations and guidelines to reflect new and innovative technologies and promote new processes that support viable end-markets
To support Ontario’s Climate Change Action Plan, the Food and Organic Waste Action Plan will also consider:
Performance measures and targets for food and organic wastes, such as the diversion rate targets set out in Ontario’s Climate Change Action Plan of 40 per cent by 2025 and 60 per cent by 2035
Additional targets that may include per capita measures of food and organic materials recovered and disposed
Opportunities to promote the development of renewable natural gas, including introducing a renewable content requirement for natural gas
The role of carbon offset protocols to support the development of food and organic waste processing infrastructure
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3. MWA Spring Workshop May 2017
Stakeholder Working Group
RPWCO
25 stakeholders represented:
Municipal
Provincial
Academic
Industrial
Retail
Agricultural
NGOs, etc.
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Stakeholder Working Group
Meeting #1
Terms of
Reference
Objectives &
Expectations
Process & Timelines
Roles & Responsibilities
Prevent Food Waste
(e.g. avoid producing, purchasing and preparing)
Feed People
(e.g. donate excess food to feed people)
Feed Animals
(e.g. donate excess food suitable for animal consumption)
Resource Recovery
(e.g. participate in a green bin program, compost at home or arrange to have food waste collected to create a value added product)
Jan. 19th
Timelines: (Originally – 2017, early 2018 – now: 1st Q 2018)
Objectives of the WG: advice to MOECC, support circular economy
Guiding Principles/Criteria: existing/new partnerships, outcome-based approach, evidence-based decision-making, etc.
Framework Expectations: set goals, identify issues, identify outcomes (e.g. phased-in targets), assess tools/actions (e.g. Policy Statement, regulatory tools, complementary measures (e.g. best practices, market development), assess economic & environmental implications of tools/actions, establish monitoring protocol & performance measures to support implementation of the framework
Roles & Responsibilities: reps with significant economic, environmental &/or social interest in preventing food waste & increasing organics materials diversion; advice MOECC; assist with data compilation, provide updates on the WG & discuss feedback to/from members of associations; assist in rolling out the framework
Meeting #2: Identification of issues & outcomes
Meeting #3: Food waste prevention & diversion
Meeting #4: Organic material diversion + End markets
Meeting #5: Policy Statement
Meeting #6: Overall recommendations & priorities; Share & discuss Framework
EBR Posting & Comments consolidation
Meeting #7: Finalize Framework
Questions/Comments:
Existing regulatory framework vs future (e.g. AD)
Definitions & supply chain
Need to integrate research
Feedstock – sufficient for future infrastructure
Lack of $ for infrastructure (financing) (AD, MWP)
Timelines must be adjustable/adaptable to needs of the WG
Impact of disposal ban on cap & trade (offset credits)
Tour compost & AD facilities (May 16 – Peel; June 13 – Bio en Power)
End markets for compost, digestate, RNG
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5. MWA Spring Workshop May 2017
Stakeholder Working Group
Meeting #2: Current State and Priority Issues
Food and Organic Waste
Scoping Activity
Issue Identification Discussion
Prioritization Activity
Mar. 3rd
Case studies, e.g. France, UK
Food and Organic Waste: roles & responsibilities of federal, provincial, municipal govt’s, consumer, ICI & WM industry; Fed’l legislative framework: feed Act, Safe Food for Canadians Act, Food & Drugs Act, Fertilizers Act; Prov’l legislative framework: EPA (WM reg’s, Renewable Energy Approvals (O. Reg. 359/09), Reg. 347, O. Reg. 535/05 Ethanol in Gasoline, O. Reg. 97/14 Greener Diesel, Landfilling Gas collection (O. Reg. 232/98 & 347), Compost Quality Standards & Guidelines, D-series guidelines); Nutrient Mgmt Act & Reg (267/03), Local Food Act, 2013, Donation of Food Act, 1994; Resource Recovery & Circular Economy Act (prov’l interest & policy statements, producer responsibility, Northern Services Board Act; Municipal Act (WM provisions), Planning Act, City of Toronto Act, 2006; Issues: food loss & waste, food & organic waste diversion, processing capacity, end markets
Scoping: in/out/maybe in; Priority: food waste, surplus food, compostable products & packaging, food processing/manufacturing waste; Less Priority (“effectively managed” via voluntary approaches or regulatory framework): biosolids, L&YW, FOGs
Issue Identification: BYC not addressed to date; priority issues: no one size fits all
Prioritization: used dots to prioritize the categories in the scoping activity – this info was used to determine priority materials for Meeting #4
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Stakeholder Working Group Meeting #3: Workshop on Food Waste Prevention, Surplus Food & Food Waste Recovery
Presentations related to:
Reducing Edible Food Waste
Surplus Food
Apr. 19th
56 people invited to present, etc.
Meeting began with an overview of the Food & Organic Waste Framework for those in attendance not on the Stakeholder’s Working Group. Panels were followed by facilitated group discussions.
Food Waste Context Panel:
Food waste in Canada – Martin Gooch (VCMI)
Metrics & Indicators – Lindsay Milne (OFC)
Evaluating the Impacts of Food Waste Solutions – Tammara Soma (Food Systems Lab – UofT)
Preventing Food Waste Panel:
Building a Business Case for Food Waste Reduction & Recovery – Michelle Saunders (Food & Consumer Products of Canada)
FLW Toolkit & Case Study: Manufacturing Sector – Meena Hassanali (Provision Coalition)
Table Discussions on Policy Tools – Prevention
Key Issues & Examples of Tools for Food Waste Prevention – Atif Durrani (MOECC)
Table Discussions on Preventing Food Waste
National Zero Waste Presentation – Denise Phillippe (National Zero Waste Council)
Redistributing Surplus Food Panel:
Food Safety Considerations – Elizabeth Choi (Ministry of Health & Long Term Care)
Food Security Strategy – Katharina Wolff (Treasury Board Secretariat)
Donating Surplus Food – Christine Bome (WalMart) & Lori Nikkel (Second Harvest)
Table Discussions on Policy Tools – Redistribution
Key Issues and Examples of Tools for Surplus Food Redistribution – Theresa Gavin (MOECC)
Table Discussions on Redistributing Surplus Food
Recovering Food Waste Panel:
Food Supply Chain & the Waste Management Sector – Peter Hargreave (OWMA), Craig Bartlett (RPWCO), Paul van der Werf (2cg)
ICI Waste Recovery Initiative – Jo-Anne St. Goddard (RCO)
Table Discussions on Policy Tools – Recovery
Key Issues & Examples of Tools for Food Waste Recovery – Andre Martin (MOECC)
Table Discussions on Recovering Food Waste
Questions/comments included:
Revisiting the OWMA position paper on dispal bans + implications re: cap & trade
RNG
Infrastructure, i.e. private sector facilities/economies of scale/logistics
ICI – policy impetus
Behaviour change
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7. MWA Spring Workshop May 2017
Stakeholder Working Group
Meeting #3: Workshop on Food Waste Prevention, Surplus Food & Food Waste Recovery
Policy Tools:
Prevention
Redistribution
Recovery
Apr. 19th
Prevention: Legal (e.g. O. Reg. 347, Official Plans (Planning Act), condo bylaws (Condominium Act), municipal bylaws (Municipal Act), Policy Statement (Resource Recovery & Circular Economy Act), Building Code Building Code Act)); Non-legal (e.g. best practices, industry initiatives, guidelines & standards, P&E, partnerships)
Redistribution: Partnerships, Incentives (e.g. Donor Protection (Food Donation Act, 1994), P&E (municipal, OFC)
Recovery: Legal (e.g. disposal ban, food & organic material diversion requirements (revise O. Reg. 103/94 for ICI sector to include food & organic waste); Incentives; P&E; Policy Statement (direction)
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8. MWA Spring Workshop May 2017
Stakeholder Working Group
Meeting #4: Other Organic Materials Diversion
Processing Capacity and End-Products - Issues
Next Steps – Planning for Processing Capacity and End-Markets Meeting
May 11th
Presentations:
Summary of previous meetings
Other Organic Materials: huge discussion on compostable products/packaging: processors & municipalities strongly advised that these should have an EPR program, that they were essentially garbage/residuals, that producers should collect & process & not depend on municipal organics diversions programs for either composting or AD
Processing Capacity and End Products – Issues i.e. RNG, compost, MWP & value/revenues, need for P&E re: end product value e.g. soil nutrient/remediation, other costs e.g. transportation (+ congestion vs GHG emissions), province = largest landowner re: siting of new processing facilities + feedstock generation, approvals; meeting scheduled for June 7th
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Stakeholder Working Group
Meeting #5: Planning for Processing Capacity and End-Markets
June 7th
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10. MWA Spring Workshop May 2017
Discussion Paper:
Addressing Food and Organic Waste in Ontario
Originally to be released to the EBR in March 2017 – date TBD
MOECC seeking answers to questions, e.g. what food & organic materials should be a priority and as such addressed in the framework?, What actions do you think the ministry should consider in preventing food waste from becoming waste? Which actions do you see as a priority?
Follows closely info in the WFO Strategy document
Seems to be more directed at the public even tho many of the issues/questions are same/similar to work of the Stakeholders WG
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11. Questions? Karyn Hogan karyn.hogan@peelregion.ca
(905) ext. 4379
Documents from the Stakeholders Working Group are posted on the MWA website.