Texas Recycling Summit, August 18 2008, Woodlands, TX Environmental Performance of Recycling based on Life Cycle Assessment approaches Joep Meijer President.

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Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX Environmental Performance of Recycling based on Life Cycle Assessment approaches Joep Meijer President of theRightenvironment Chemical Engineer 10 year LCA Expert in EU 2 years in Austin

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX Are you interested in … the environmental benefits of products, services and policies finding most sustainable option where choices can be made Optimized environmental performance looking at different life cycle phases Optimized performance looking at different aspects of Sustainability Make informed choices with the best footprint?

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX Life Cycle Assessment can… Determine the environmental benefits of products, services and policies Help find the most sustainable option where choices can be made Show synergy or trade-offs in different life cycle phases Show synergy or trade-offs in different aspects of Sustainability Can compare different solutions

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX Life Cycle Thinking = Making informed decisions About the environmental performance Looking at the entire life cycle

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX What if the city/county/state …would have a landfill ban on anything that can be reused, recycled, composted or incinerated? My believe is that governments can create the conditions for a new segment of economy that will bring jobs, economic growth and creativity to the field of waste treatment

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX What if the city/county/state What would be the environmental condition that should go along with a landfill ban? What about the following paradigm: ‘Any plan for treatment of a waste should have an comparable or better environmental footprint than current ways to deal with it’

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX What if the city/county/state How would we measure this? What framework do we need?

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX What is better? Primary Secondary materials Depletion of resourcesCollection Land transformationLogistics ProcessingProcessing ……

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX What is better? It is a balancing act What balance do we need?

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX What is better? We all know that: -Recycling aluminum takes 10% of the energy to produce primary aluminum: 20 MJ/t vs. 200 MJ/t -Recycling of many products is easy, but keeping the same quality is a challenge

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX What is better? Points of attention from my experience -The energy balance is not always positive -A return and/or recycling system for each individual product does usually not make sense -With pre-consumer waste recycling it is much easier to up-cycle in stead of down-cycle

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX Example

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX How to assign “Sustainability value” to a recycling solution?

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX Life cycle assessment (LCA) LCA is a powerful tool for assessing the environmental performance of products, services or scenarios It is based on material and energy flows for processes and materials that together form a life cycle Resource A Resource B ProductionAssembly Use Maintenance Recycling

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX Sustainability indicators A range of impact categories can be distinguished Global warmingDepletion of non-renewables AcidificationDepletion of the ozone layer EutrophicationSummersmog Aquatic ecotoxicityTerrrestrial ecotoxicity Human toxicityEnergy Non-hazardous wasteHazardous waste Water

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX Inventory Incoming and outgoing material and energy flows for every process and material

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX Impact Assessment The result is an Environmental profile

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX Interpretation Major contributions give options for improvements

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX A common framework If we need to create a level playing field to make the right decisions, choose the right technology and define the right scale… If we need to develop a methodology that goes with that, that will enable people to judge and communicate? What language do we need to develop? LCA takes us as far as science takes us

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX Lessons 1.A framework to evaluate the sustainability of waste recycling options is useful. LCA can provide just that. 2.Not every waste stream needs to have its own waste recycling option. A certain scale (or pooling) is needed to beat logistical inefficiencies

Texas Recycling Summit, August , Woodlands, TX Environmental Performance of Recycling based on Life Cycle Assessment approaches Joep Meijer President of theRightenvironment

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