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ResourceFull UseBuilding a Zero Waste Supply Chain
Northwest Environmental Conference - December 2010
Debra Taevs, NW Pollution Prevention
Resource Center
Dorothy Fisher Atwood, Zero Waste Alliance
ResourceFULL Use
• Facilitated waste exchange• Inputs and outputs map the path• Waste can lead to the supply chain• Innovation – Job creation nexus between waste
and ‘re-materialization’• In-situ Eco-Industrial Parks: Exchanges and
collaboration first step• Product stewardship – take back is key in ‘green
supply chain’
Fi nal D i sposi t i on – Landfil l ,
C om bust i on, R ecycl e, or R euse
R aw M at er i al s Acqui si t i on
M at er i al s M anuf act ure
Product M anuf act ure
Product U se or
C onsum pt i on
Energy Energy Energy Energy Energy
W ast es W ast es W ast es W ast es
R euse
Product R ecycl i ng
Fi gure 1-1. G eneral materi al s flow for "cradl e- to-grave" anal ysi s of a product system.
Materials & Materials &Materials & Materials & Materials &
“Upstream” (Production) Use
“Downstream” (end of life
management)
Life Cycle Stages
Principle: One companies by-product is another’s resource
Anne Anderson, illustrator. Anne Anderson's Old, Old Fairy Tales. Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1935.
Like Rumplestiltskin, spinning straw into gold!
What’s still in the waste stream??
• ResourceFull Use, Portland• Others
– UK: Industrial Symbiosis– Puget Sound: By-Product
Synergy– Eastern Washington: Industrial
Materials Exchange
Many successful examples
Image courtesy of http://stantonssheetmusic.wordpress.com/2009/04/
“A rose by any other name would still smell as
sweet…” Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet,
1594
ResourceFull UsePartners:• Zero Waste Alliance, • Columbia Corridor Association and • PPRC• Boeing
Process• Quarterly workshops• Speed Dating• Exchanges• Database development
ResourceFull Use- Metrics
• One-time Exchange of 250 gallons of yellow traffic paint destined for a hazardous waste landfill.
• Dollars saved by businesses – Cost of Paint - $2,000 for 250 gallons– Cost of disposal - $750 (assume $150/drum to haz waste landfill)
• Pounds of waste prevented: 2,500 lbs (assume 10lb/gallon)• Gallons of transportation fuel saved: 1.6 gallons of diesel fuel
(Transport to Haz waste site in Arlington)• Estimates of Greenhouse gas reductions:
– Estimate from manufacturing of paint: 6,300 pounds CO2– Estimate from fuel saved: 42 pounds of CO2
Nursery Plant Pots
• Nursery and transfer station found each other in ‘Speed Exchange Dating’
• On-going exchange since December 2009• Transfer station pulls plant pots from waste stream• Nursery picks up • Pounds diverted: 8000+ (over 4 tons)• Avoided cost of new pots: $9400+• Sale of extra pots: $1000+• Total: $10,500+
ResourceFull Use - Current Status• Free! Quarterly workshops• Attendance – 20 to 30 participants• New opportunities identified
– Plastic waste for use in concrete– Reuse of linens for fabric insulation, prison linens– Out of spec. traffic vinyl signage for tote bags, bike panniers– Waste wire into steel production– Super sacks– Refrigerant– Share meeting space– Truck space for back hauling– Street sweepings, vactor wastes to sand, pumice, filter cakes
and “Eco Blocks”
ResourceFull Use2011 Quarterly Workshops
From 9:30 to 11:30, In the Portland Airport Business Center, Room - St. Helens B
• February 24th
• May 19th
• August 18th
• November 17th
ResourceFULL Use Participants include: Port of Portland Siltronic Air Water and Soil
Technologies Malarky Roofing SAPA Inc. Rockwest Training Precision Cast Parts (PCC) City of Portland Waste Connections Metro Stevens Printing
Oregon Canadian Lumber Products
Portland State University CCI Enterprises Aloft Hotel Columbia Steel Pavement Maintenance, Inc. Waste Xpress Environmental GEO Design Altec Industries Solar World USA Association of OR Nurseries
Northwest By-Product Synergy Results Summary
- $393,000+ annual savings
- 2489 metric tons CO2 equivalent emissions avoided annually
- 3663 tons of material diverted annually
- 66+ tons of material not purchased
Puget Sound: NBIS - CHARTER COMPANIES – 2008/9 Canyon Creek Cabinets Cascade Designs Conoco-Phillips Cook Composites and
Polymers Genie Industries Grays Harbor Paper
Company King County Solid Waste
Division LaFarge
Leader International Nucor Steel Phillips Services Port of Seattle – SeaTac
Airport Seattle Public Utilities Shell Puget Sound Refinery Snohomish County Solid
Waste Management Division
Tri-Vitro
National Industrial Symbiosis Project - U.K.
NISP is a free business opportunity programme that:
• delivers financial • environmental and • social benefits
The first industrial symbiosis initiative in the world to be launched on a national scale.
NISP
• Possibly the most successful exchange project in world
• Government funded• No barrier to participation• Now in it’s 6th year• Funding: approx. US$8 million
NISP ResultsNovember 2010
• Boosted U.K. economy by between £1.5-2.4 billion• Created and safeguarded 8,770 jobs• Generated £880 in new sales for members• Saved £780 for members• Reduced carbon emissions 30 million tonnes• Prevented the use of 48 tonnes of virgin materials• Generated £151 new sales for members• Eliminated 1.8 million tonnes of hazardous waste
• Saved 47 million tonnes of industrial wastewater • Diverted 35 million tonnes of industrial waste from landfill• Saved over 48 million tonnes of virgin material from use in
the U.K.
Learnings
• Huge potential• Facilitation required!• Not easy, but can be rewarding• The process often results in less
glamorous and traditional recycling• The more trading partners the better
Innovation and Job Creation
• Many wastes/by-products are not directly ready for input in another process
• Transformation or re-materialization is required• Niche for innovators and job incubators to create
feedstock or products
Examples: Nursery pots – sterilization process required.
Portland Transportation out-of-spec road signs into bike panniers
Product Stewardship
Lesson relearned over and over:
Required take-back would:• Solve many ‘tough’ waste problems• Provide feedstock for original manufacturer
Example: Escalator hand rails – high quality material could be designed for re-manufacturing
Key Lessons
• Inputs and outputs map the path• Waste can lead to the supply chain• In-situ Eco-Industrial Parks: Exchanges and
collaboration first step• Innovation – Job creation nexus between waste
and ‘re-materialization’• Product stewardship – take back is key in ‘green
supply chain’• Create a Supply Matrix rather than chain
Contacts:Debra TaevsNW Pollution Prevention Resource Center(503) [email protected]
Dorothy Fisher AtwoodZero Waste Alliance503 [email protected]