Designing print products for the future
Creating competitive advantages
by defining a new level of quality
An EPEA Initiative Supported by the DOEN Foundation
Katja Hansen, München, 13.2.2019
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The paper market (Global)
• More than 400 million tons of paper products are produced each year, and about 77 million tons are shipped to Europe.
Production volume of paper and cardboard worldwide 2006 to 2016
Value of annually wasted paper products in US‐Dollar
• Every year printed products such as boxes and paper worth about $ 16.2 billion are thrown away and cannot be reused.
Sources: GeneraCycle, “What we throw away every year” (2017) / Statista / FAO (2017): Statistics pulp and paper industry
Total volume increasing
The market is growing
worldwide by approx. 1 %
annually.
• More packaging
because of online
shopping
• Alternative to plastic
• Demand from growing
economies
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• After the ban on importing mixed waste including unsorted paper waste, China signed a memorandum of agreement with the EU on circular economy.
• The EU has been amending an existing piece of legislation – the EU waste framework directive – to restrict use of potentially harmful substances in recycled materials.
• Ink producers can expect new restrictions on packaging ink chemicals.
• Healthy Printing is a practical enabler for the China‐EU agreement and a practical solution to recycled paper being contaminated!
Upcoming regulations
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1. Contamination of recycled paper
Challenges in the paper sector
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2. Migration of harmful substances
Challenges in the paper sector (2)
Sources: Foodwatch (2015): Mineralöle in Lebensmitteln: Ergebnisse des foodwatch‐Tests. / Verband European Bioplastics (2000): EN 13432 – Nachweis Kompostierbarkeit
3. Focus on increasing efficiency and compliance with thresholds
4. Limited use of “deinking” sludge 5. Lack of effective recycling methods
Producer are looking for clean recycling
paper
Amounts are limted
Demand exceeding supply
Market demand for clean recycling paper
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Defining a new level of quality: paper cascade
Source: NL Agency, Position paper – Usability of Life Cycle Assessment for Cradle to Cradle purposes (2011)
Paper fibres are re‐usable many times
in a cascade.
New products from used fibre are
coming to markets, e.g.
www.reffibre.eu.
Healthy printing makes those products
more economical by reducing
contaminants and improving fibre
quality.
Recycling starts with waste
Heritage of the past
Upcycling starts with designing all materials as resources
Clean resources for the future
Design for Upcycling
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Products are safe for high‐quality recycling or use in the biological
cycle.
Sludge that inevitably occurs in recycling can be a safe resource for
other uses.
Standards for water quality and wastewater treatment in recycling
can be improved.
Products surpass legal requirements and are safe as measured by the
highest standards for use and reuse.
Products are safe and healthy for humans, use with food products,
and air, water or soil.
Defining a new level of quality: Healthy Printing
Value is there!
Resource creation:Healthy ingredients transform recycling sludge into resources, to burn safely or use in other processes
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Incineration with energy recovery
• Low caloric value due to high water content
• Possible dioxine formation
Reuse of ashes for various purposes (caustic soda substitute, lime substitute, soil
stabilization, road construction, sludge conditioning, additive to cement, additive to mixed
binder)
• Content of toxic heavy elements (e.g. Cd, As, Cr, Ni).
HPI targets beneficial re‐use of ashes as nutrients in soil since wood and pulp ashes contain most of the major mineral plant nutrients (except N) & are acid‐neutralizing.
Sludge ‐ incineration
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Spreading on land
• Neutralizing acidic soils (UK, northern Europe)
• Prohibit in many countries due to contamination
Reuse as building material, e.g. in bricks
• Beneficial properties for bricks re porosity, lightweighting etc
• Replacing other natural resources such as clay, wood dust
• Energy saving for firing bricks
Sludge – other current uses
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For example,
Pyrolysis ‐mixture of gaseous & liquid fuels plus solid inert residue
Gasification
Anaerobic digestion
Supercritical water oxidation – salts, fillers for reuse
Reuse of fibre in cardboard production
Sludge – potential new uses
Healthy printed products increase value creation
by improving reuse potential for paper byproducts
An EPEA Initiative Supported by the DOEN Foundation
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Recent example of success
Made possible through supply chain cooperation with hubergroup(inks) and Töpfer (labels), and scientific consultation with EPEA
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Another successful partnership
• printed on paper made from agricultural waste (leaves and stems) by PaperWise
• with Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Gold offset inks by Green4Print
• Produced with IPA (solvent) free print process by Ecodrukkers.
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Book presented @ World Economic Forum, Davos 2018.
Image from www.duurzaam‐ondernemen.nl
40+ members
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Healthy printing improvements vary between products and regions, so it makes sense to share and scale up best practices.
Healthy Printing Charter is designed to do that by supporting knowledge transfer and scale up of methods for printing that are healthy for people, the economy and the environment.
We invite your company to join the Healthy Printing movement by signing the Charter (DE/EN/NL) as well, whether you are a manufacturerer of inks, papers, additives, a printer, distributor, an NGO, or even a user of printed products.
http://www.healthyprinting.eu/charter/
Join us!
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Download:http://www.healthyprinting.eu/epea‐and‐baum‐healthy‐printing‐report/
healthy printing:
EPEA GmbH ‐ Part of Drees & SommerHamburg ‐ Germany
www.epea.com
EPEA NederlandEindhoven‐ The Netherlands
www.epea.nl
contact person:Katja Hansen
[email protected]+49‐176‐5970 4341
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