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ResourceFull Use PilotAn Innovative Local Resource Exchange
Columbia Corridor Breakfast ForumJune 24, 2009
Dorothy Fisher AtwoodZero Waste Alliance
Debra TaevsPollution Prevention Resource Center
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Agenda
• ResourceFull Use Overview• What is in the waste stream environment• Mapping your resource flows• Case studies of resource exchanges• Speed Resource Exchange “Dating”• Debrief and Wrap-up
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www.zerowaste.org
• Our Mission is to support organizations in the creation of a more sustainable future
• Formed in 1999; Larry Chalfan, Executive Director; 14 associates
• Providing needed services:• Management support e.g. EMS support• Technical services• Training and education
• A program of the International Sustainable Development Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit
Following Nature’s model…Zero Waste Alliance
PPRC is the Northwest Region’s leading non-profit that provides practical, on-the-ground technical assistance to businesses, public agencies, and non-profits that are seeking to conserve resources and improve economic performance
Pollution Prevention Resource Center (PPRC)
• Est. in 1990 as an alternative to building new hazardous waste disposal sites in the region
• Serve EPA Region 10 (WA, OR, ID and AK) • Provide pollution prevention (P2) information
resources, research and networking• Support for Technical Service Providers in federal,
state and local government and industry
PPRC
• By-Product Synergy• Materials Exchange• Beneficial Use• Resourceful Use
Industrial Ecology“A Rose by any other name would still smell as sweet…”
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, 1594
Image courtesy of http://stantonssheetmusic.wordpress.com/2009/04/
Principle: Garbage in, Something of value out, or like Rumplestiltskin, spinning straw into gold!
Anne Anderson, illustrator. Anne Anderson's Old, Old Fairy Tales. Racine, Wisconsin:
Whitman Publishing Company, 1935.
ResourceFull Use Overview
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ResourceFull Use Overview
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What’s still in the waste stream??
What’s still in the waste stream??
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Creating an Input-Output Diagram
Step 1. Define your ‘fenceline’ with key operations
Step 2. Identify key activities for each operation
Step 3. Identify inputs and outputs of each activity and associated environmental impacts
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Step 1 - Define your FencelineCreate Top Level Input/Output (I/O) Diagram
The Organization
fenceline
Resources Products
By-products
Waste
Operations
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Steps 2 and 3: Identify Key ActivitiesCreate I/O Diagram for Each Operation
OperationResources Products
By-products
Waste
Activities
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Clark County Public Works FencelineVehicle Maintenance Yard
Resources Products
By-products
Waste
• Combustion gasses
• Used parts (some)• Used spill clean up
materials
• Trash• Haz. Waste
• New vehicles• Vehicle fuel
(B20 and gasoline)
• Lubricants• Service parts• Misc. shop
supplies• Tools and equip.• Office supplies• Water• Electricity• Nat. gas
• Used vehicles• Scrapped vehicles• Used parts
(rebuild)• Used oils• Scrap metal• Cardboard, paper
• Transportation services, mobility
• Vehicles maintained
Management & Procurement
Facilities Management
Fuel Islands Emergency
Service Heavy Equipment
Light Vehicles Fabrication Parts Mark Ready Acquisition Remote
Fueling
Operations
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Clark County Public Works OperationRemote Fueling
Resources Products
By-products
Waste
• Filling bulk tanks on truck• Driving truck around• Dispensing from truck• Remote servicing of vehicles• Fueling the truck• Spill clean up
Activities• B20 diesel
fuel• Motor oil• Hydraulic oil• Antifreeze• ATF• Spill clean up
matls• Service parts• Filters• Rags • Evaporated fuel
• Combustion gasses
• Used parts (some)• Used spill clean up
materials
• Used parts (some)• Used filters• Used motor oil &
ATF• Dirty rags
• Fueled and serviced vehicles
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Products include:• Tangible Products• Services
Waste (everything else), including:• Air Emissions• Waste Water, Storm Water• Contaminants in Waste Water• Heat, Sunlight, Rainwater• “Solid”, Municipal Waste• Hazardous Waste• Time, Absenteeism, Inefficiency
Resources, Products, By-products, Waste
Resources include:• Materials (delivered)
• Metals, Plastics• Paper, Wood, Packaging• Chemicals, Process Gasses• Oil, Coal, Gasoline, LPG,
Diesel• Sunlight, Rainwater
• Utilities (“piped”)• Water• Electricity• Natural Gas
• Human • Work Time• Thoughts, Creativity• Morale (efficiency)• Health, family
Products include:• Tangible Products• Services
Inputs Outputs
By-products: (a type of waste)• Secondary Products • Recyclable Materials
Waste (everything else), including:• Air Emissions• Waste Water, Storm Water• Contaminants in Waste Water• Heat, Sunlight, Rainwater• “Solid”, Municipal Waste• Hazardous Waste• Time, Absenteeism, Inefficiency
1. Northwest By-Product Synergy Network (Puget Sound)
2. Eastern Washington Industrial Materials Exchange (Tri-Cities)
3. UK example
Three Case Studies
Northwest By-Product Synergy Network
• Est. 2007• U.S. Business Council
for Sustainable Development model
• Facilitated approach• Paying members• Puget Sound focus• Approx 15 Organizations
Charter Members
• Canyon Creek Cabinets • Cascade Designs • ConocoPhillips • Cook Composites and Polymers• Genie Industries • Grays Harbor Paper Company• King County Department of
Natural Resources and Parks• Solid Waste Division • LaFarge Cement • Leader International
• Nucor Steel • Phillips Services • Port of Seattle • Seattle Public Utilities • Shell Puget Sound Refinery• Snohomish County Public
Works• Terra Matters • Tri-Vitro Corporation
Network Activities
• Large Community Meetings• Membership• Confidentiality• Targeted working groups• Regulatory advisors
NW BPS has documented
the following savings
• $393,000+ annual savings• 2,489 metric tons CO2
equivalent emissions avoided annually
• 3,663 tons of material diverted annually
• 66+ tons of material not purchased
Eastern WA Industrial Materials Exchange
• Sponsored by Boise Paper• Initially facilitated by
PPRC• Grass roots• Ag community• Approx 20 participants• “Speed Dating”!
Eastern WA Industrial Materials Exchange
Companies included;• Furniture company • Wineries • Fertilizer manufacturing • Animal feed• Other manufacturing• Landscapers, etc
Eastern WA Industrial Materials Exchange
(Ray Lam)
Tallow
• Material was soaked into chips and dried for a day, and used as fuel
• Neighbor avoided about $1,000,000 in landfill fees
• Received about $250 K in fuel
Reuse metals and wire -used to recycle
• Don’t purchase what we have in the recycle bins –stainless piping
• $1.50 received vs. $7.50 paid per lb for stainless pipe
• Selling copper wire back as wire vs. copper
• Selling papermachine felts-$50/each vs. disposal
National Industrial Symbiosis ProjectU.K.
NISP is a free business opportunity programme that delivers bottom line, environmental and social benefits and is the first industrial symbiosis initiative in the world to be launched on a national scale.
NISP
• Most successful exchange project in world?
• Gov’t funded• No barrier to participation• Now in it’s 5th year• DEFTRA funds 5 million
(British Pound)/year=
$8,132,415 Dollars
NISP Results
May 09 Press Release
• Reduced national industrial carbon emissions 5.2 million tonnes
• Diverted 5.2 million tonnes of industrial waste
• Prevented the use of 7.9 tonnes of virgin materials
• Attracted £116 million in private investment in reprocessing and recycling
• Generated £151 new sales for members• Saved £131 for members• Eliminated 357,000 tonnes of hazardous
waste• Saved 9.4 million gallons of industrial
wastewater
Speed Resource Exchange Dating
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Contact:
Dorothy Fisher AtwoodAssociate
One World Trade Center121 S.W. Salmon St., Ste 210
Portland, OR 97204Tel: 503-699-7834Fax: 503-279-9381
Debra TaevsDebuty Director
PPRC…….