1. May 3-4, 2006 PPSI Meeting - Sarasota FL
Lifecycle Workgroup
Heidi Sanborn, R3 Consulting Group – Facilitator
Scott Cassel, PSI
Dave Darling, NPCA – Lead Industry Group
David Allaway, OR DEQ – Lead Government Group
Dave Nightingale, WA Ecology & NW Prod. Stewardship Council
Alison Keane, NPCA
Allen Stegman, Valspar Corporation
Harry Finkbone, ICI Paints
Robert Wendoll, Dunn-Edwards
Barry Elman, EPA
Bill Sierks – MN Office of Environmental Assistance
Bob Boughton – California DTSC
Irene Gleason, FL Department of Environmental Protection
Leslie Wilson, MN Solid Waste Mgt Coordinating Board
May 3-4, 2006 PPSI Meeting - Sarasota FL

2. Lifecycle Balance of Costs and Benefits for Managing Leftover (#11)
Goal:
Determine the net balance lifecycle benefit to society from various management options, ranging from simple drying/solid waste disposal to reuse and recycling.
Methods:
Develop a study to determine and evaluate scientifically the environmental costs and benefits of leftover paint management options.
Identify and quantify the relative socioeconomic lifecycle costs and benefits of leftover paint management, including human, natural, and economic resource use.
May 3-4, 2006 PPSI Meeting - Sarasota FL

3. May 3-4, 2006 PPSI Meeting - Sarasota FL
Project Timeline
Completed LCA and CBA Scopes of Work.
Released RFP for services to implement LCA and CBA SOWs.
Workgroup selected ERG/F2 (includes Franklin Assoc./First Environment) to complete both LCA and CBA.
Final contracts signed between NPCA and PSI (facilitation) and ERG.
May 3-4, 2006 PPSI Meeting - Sarasota FL

4. May 3-4, 2006 PPSI Meeting - Sarasota FL
Decisions Made
Focus on latex (not oil-based)
6 Pure Methods (“intended methods”)
Consumer-based Scenario
Reuse method
Dry and dispose method
Collection-based Scenario
Recycle into consolidated paint method
Recycle into reprocessed paint method
May 3-4, 2006 PPSI Meeting - Sarasota FL

5. May 3-4, 2006 PPSI Meeting - Sarasota FL
Decisions Made
Modified Methods (“unintended methods”)
System Boundaries (what is in/out of study)
13 Impact Categories
CBA assumptions, boundaries, and allocation will mirror the LCA
May 3-4, 2006 PPSI Meeting - Sarasota FL

6. May 3-4, 2006 PPSI Meeting - Sarasota FL
Decisions Made
Broad cost categories: 
To consumers (e.g., travel, drying time, cost of recycled paint)
To environment (e.g., burdens from travel, collection, facilities, paint management, recycled paint production and use)
To government (e.g., collection, transport, solid waste facility costs)
To industry (e.g., foregone profits [reuse], production/distribution of recycled paint)
May 3-4, 2006 PPSI Meeting - Sarasota FL

7. May 3-4, 2006 PPSI Meeting - Sarasota FL
Decisions Made
8. Broad benefit categories:
To consumers (e.g., reused/recycled paint, avoided travel/purchase of virgin paint)
To environment (e.g., avoided production and use burdens of virgin paint if/when displaced by reused/recycled paint)
To government (e.g., sale of recoverable metals)
To industry (e.g., revenues from sale of recycled paint)
May 3-4, 2006 PPSI Meeting - Sarasota FL

8. And you thought THAT was complicated…
9. Functional unit = management of 1,000 gallons of the national leftover paint supply and associated containers
All methods will be evaluated using (a) no avoided virgin paint credit; (b) full avoided virgin paint credit
Assume that reused or recycled paint will be substituted for an equivalent grade and type of virgin paint
May 3-4, 2006 PPSI Meeting - Sarasota FL

9. And you thought THAT was complicated…
Average vs. marginal cost [will use average costs in most cases; marginal costs for management of latex if co-collected with oil based paint]
Research into alternative management options (liquid paint in landfills, sewers)
May 3-4, 2006 PPSI Meeting - Sarasota FL

10. May 3-4, 2006 PPSI Meeting - Sarasota FL
Project Coordination
David Darling (NPCA) and David Allaway (Oregon DEQ) – leads for industry and government groups respectively to reduce PSI time for facilitation.
Workgroup agreed to limit s to PSI and work through their leads to resolve issues.
PSI brought in for elevated discussions.
Benefit: reduced cost, increased “ownership”
Challenges: staying to timeframe
May 3-4, 2006 PPSI Meeting - Sarasota FL

11. May 3-4, 2006 PPSI Meeting - Sarasota FL
Next Steps
Schedule 5 Workgroup Calls
Collect data (in coordination with infrastructure group)
Timely responses required to maintain schedule
Conduct modeling
Prepare draft report
Revise, conduct sensitivity analyses
Final Report completion by November 1, 2006
May 3-4, 2006 PPSI Meeting - Sarasota FL