6th FSP Meeting
Presented by:
Stuart Blofeld
Secretary - Flooring Sustainability Partnership
Date: 21/02/2012
FLOORING SUSTAINABILITY PARTNERSHIP
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Welcome from Chairman
FLOORING SUSTAINABILITY PARTNERSHIP
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Introductions
FLOORING SUSTAINABILITY PARTNERSHIP
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Agenda
 Welcome
Richard Catt
 Introductions
All
 Minutes of 5th FSP Meeting
Richard Catt
 Matters Arising
Richard Catt
 FREP Progress Report 2011 – Member questionnaire
Stuart Blofeld
 The impact of REACH Regs on the Vinyl flooring
Alan Best
 New Chairman
Richard Catt
 Secretariat 2012/13
All
 Flooring Product Category Rules
Stuart Blofeld
 AOB
 Date of Next meeting
FLOORING SUSTAINABILITY PARTNERSHIP
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5th FSP Meeting Minutes &
Matters Arising
FLOORING SUSTAINABILITY PARTNERSHIP
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FREP Progress Report 2011 &
FSP member questionnaire
Stuart Blofeld
FLOORING SUSTAINABILITY PARTNERSHIP
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FSP member questionnaire
1. As an existing FSP member how important do you view its role (in improving resource
efficiency and reducing waste) across the flooring industry?
2. Do you believe your business/organisation has benefited from being a member of FSP?
Can you provide any specific examples where you have benefited.
3. Has being a member of the FSP led to any changes to your business practices in how
you deal with and/or address waste issues in your sector?
4. Can you please provide specific details of what actions your company taken during 2011
to address waste issues within the flooring sector?
5. Are there any specific projects delivered in the past year that would make a good case
study that could be featured in the TREP 2011 progress report?
6. Do you have any quantifiable data on the reductions in flooring waste arisings achieved
in 2011, and/or decreases in flooring waste sent to landfill?
7. Do you have any specific plans for 2012 to tackle flooring waste within your sector?
8. Do you have any other comments or issues that you would like captured that could
inform the 2011 FSP Progress Report, or other areas FSP should consider in its future
work programme?
FLOORING SUSTAINABILITY PARTNERSHIP
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The impact of REACH Regs on the
Vinyl flooring sector and recycling
Alan Best
FLOORING SUSTAINABILITY PARTNERSHIP
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REACH AND THE VINYL SECTOR
REACH
Registration Evaluation and Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals
some principles
• REACH sets out to impose on the whole industrial
supply chain from producer to downstream user,
the same basic environmental and human health
regulations as pharmaceuticals and pesticides.
• REACH sets out to systematically assess the safety
of chemicals to ensure that their risks are fully
understood and managed and to encourage the
substitution and innovation of those that are
hazardous and for which they may be better
alternatives!
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REACH
Administered by ECHA – Helsinki, HSE - UK
Pre-registrations – They thought 100-500,000
SIEF’S
Cost to industry
30,000 substances
Actual 2.75 million pre-registrations
140,000 substances
60,000 companies
egTitanium Dioxide 3000 members
15p to £1/kilo
REACH
SUBSTANCES
OF
VERY
HIGH
CONCERN
SVHC’S
REACH Substances of Very High Concern
SVHC’s
• Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic
• Very Persistent and very
Bioaccumulative
• Carcinogenic, Mutagenic, disruptors
of Reproduction category1&2
• Or of equivalent concern
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Substances of Very High Concern
SVHC’s per February 2012
• Candidate list for authorisation by ECHA (currently 73
chemicals)
• Registry of intentions for Annex XV dossiers
– Submitted SVHC proposal intentions
– Current SVHC proposal intentions
– Most low molecular weight phthalates e.g DEHP, DBP, DIBP and BBP –
severe restriction on their use imposed particularly children’s toys
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REACH AND WASTE:
• In general recovered polymer collected and sorted from a
waste stream and blended or moulded via a manufacturing
process to produce an article such as playground furniture
is not required to register under REACH legal requirements.
• However, if such an article contains an SVHC then this must
be notified to the ECHA if: the article contains more than
0.1% of an SVHC and the volumes produced/imported are
greater that one tonne of that SVHC per annum –NEED TO
INFORM CUSTOMER
• Substances on the candidate list on 1 December 2010 had
to be notified to the ECHA no later than 1 June 2011.
• Substances placed on the candidate after 1 December 2010
must be notified within 6 months of the article being put
on the candidate list.
• Notification is free
PVC
A REVOLUTIONARY
IMPACT PARTICULARY ON
PLUMBING AND
MUNICIPAL WASTE
•CHEMICAL
RESISTANCE
•LIGHT WEIGHT
•LOW COST
Constantly changing
chemical picture
oil
Salt
Ethylene
Chlorine
PVC
Manufacturing
process
Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM)
Polyvinyl Chloride
Additives
Fabricated Article
oil
Salt
Ethylene
Chlorine
PVC
Manufacturing
process
Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM)
Polyvinyl Chloride
Additives
Fabricated Article
PVC Health and Safety Issues
• Vinyl Chloride Monomer is a known carcinogen which
has affected workers – vinyl chloride disease
• Organochlorines are Persistent Organic Pollutants POP’s
• Products of incineration of finished product and
manufacturing bi-products can include dioxins e.g.
ethylene dioxide tars – incineration at sea banned ‘91
• Additives include heavy metals and potential endocrine
disruptors eg phthalate esters.
• To some extent balanced by a contribution to safe
handling of sewage in non developed countries.
PVC and other Organochlorines
Health Risks from organochorine products
POP’S - Persitent Organic Pollutants
Persistent orgnanochlorine compounds
detected in mothers milk e.g
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HCB (Hexachlorobenzene) Fungicide – carcinogen
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HCH (hexachlorocyclohexane) Insecticide - liver and kidney toxin.
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DDT (Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane) Pesticide- Suspected toxic to humans
and suspect carcinogen.
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PBDE polybrominated diphenyl ether – fire retardant linked to autism
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PCDD/PCDF (polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDFs)dioxinlike – toxic
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PCB’s (polychlorinated biphenyls) widely used fire retardant, pvc stabiser.
Banned and toxic
Flooring and the indoor air quality
Off Gassing Chemicals VOC’s detected in
buildings at levels higher than external air
xylene
Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin
Dioxins
• The most toxic dioxin is TCDD and most of the
available data refer to this compound
• Emits toxic fumes of hydrogen chloride and chlorine
when heated to decomposition or on exposure to UV
light
• TCDD is classified as a causing cancer in humans
• TCDD produces a range of toxic effects on
reproduction relating to both fertility and
developmental toxicity
Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs)
SOURCES OF DIOXINS
• natural
sources such as volcanoes and forest fires – as with
radiation which occurs naturally it doesn’t mean we should release
any more of it for the planet to cope with.
•by-products in the manufacture of some Organochlorines – Largest
is PVC others from process- tetrafluoroethane which is used in the
manufacture of Teflon and similar stain repellent - long chain
fluoropolymers withdrawn
•incineration of chlorine-containing substances such as PVC
•chlorine bleaching of paper
•Manufactured as herbicidal warfare chemical “Agent Orange”
Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs)
SOME MAJOR DIOXINS
INCIDENTS
•1949 Monsanto Virginia
•1963 Philips Duphar plant Amsterdam
•1965 – 68 Spolana Neratovice plant Czechoslovakia
•1976 Seveso – Italy – Seveso Directive
•1978 Love Canal Niagra Falls
•1982 – 85 Times Beach, Missouri
•1999 Dioxin Crisis in Belgium
•2001 World Trade Centre
•2008 Irish Pork Crisis
International Response to Dioxin
Contamination Incidents
•Dioxins and other Persistent Organic Pollutants
(POP’s) are subject to the
•2004 Stockholm Convention
•The treaty obliges signatories to take measures to
eliminate where possible, and minimize where not
possible to eliminate, all sources of dioxin
PVC ADDITIVES
PVC ADDITIVES
•Heat Stabilisers – LEAD, CADMIUM – PREVENT LOSS OF HCL
•UV Stabilisers
•Lubricants
•Processing Aids
•Impact modifiers
•Thermal modifiers
•Fillers
•Flame retardants
•Biocides e.g phenols
•Blowing agents
•Smoke suppressors
•Pigments
•PLASTICISERS - PHTHALATES
PHTHALATE ESTERS
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LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT
E.g DEHP, – REACH SVHC – WITHDRAWN by2015
Being phased out by pvc industry
HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT – being phased in
Said to be positive regarding SAFE use and all
REACH registered (no choice in the matter)
• DINP – REACH RESTRICTED LIST
• TOXICITY TRIALS LIMITED TO SHORT TERM
STUDIES e.g 90 day and 130 day studies.
• Long term study results awaited
REACH AND DINP
“ECHA considers that the available new information with regard to hazards and uses
of and exposure to DINP does not bring a new perspective to the assessments which
were carried out in the past and used as a basis for the current restrictions on DINP.
Even though further in-depth assessment of the currently available information, and
potentially further new information, would be needed to draw firm conclusions on
the exact level of risks from certain uses of DINP, this information does not indicate
the need for an urgent re-examination of the existing restriction on DINP.
Therefore, ECHA suggests to wait for all the registration dossiers to be submitted for
DINP by the first registration deadline, after which the Commission may decide
whether specific aspects of these registration dossier(s) should be assessed to
confirm or contest the conclusion of this review, that there is no need to re-examine
the current restriction..................................”
European Chemicals Pressure Groups
ChemSec
SIN LIST
The SIN LIST
“Substitute it Now”
• A growing list of 378 chemicals that Chemsec is
urging governments to phase out through REACH
Legislation which it claims is moving too slowly.
• Chemsec’s board are WWF, Swedish Society for
Natural Conservation, Friends of the Earth,
Nature and Youth
• Funded by Swedish Govt. John Merck Fund,
Swedish EPA, German EPA, European Parliament,
Sigrid Rausing Trust, Greenpeace
The SIN LIST
“Substitute it Now”
• Supporting Companies Actively Following the
SIN List SVHC
• B & Q BOOTS
DELL
L’OREAL
• NOKIA SARA LEE SKANSKA ERICKSSON
• IKEA
H&M
ELECTROLUX
How does the recycler look for
phthalates on the REACH SVHC OR SIN
LIST?
• Potential research project with the REACH
Centre Lancaster University for a practical
analytical tool which can be used by recycling
contractors
The REACH Centre
Lancaster University- Jonathan Lutwyche CEO
• The REACH Centre are aiming to producing a simple, cost
effective test for the identification of phthalates contained in
plastic components. A program of work has been developed in
which a combination of 'lab-on-a-chip' technology and
efficient chemical methodology will be co-developed to
provide a novel semi-quantitative analytical protocol for
phthalate detection. By achieving this, The REACH Centre
and collaborating bodies will be able to develop a world
leading position in the testing and management of phthalates.
The REACH Centre
Lancaster University- Jonathan Lutwyche CEO
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Phthalates esters (usually referred to as ‘phthalates’) belong to a group of man-made chemical substances
that are used as plasticisers in polymers, primarily PVC, where levels can be as high as 40 – 50% by
weight. Phthalates are endocrine disruptors and have been implicated in a variety of health problems. Four
of them in particular (DEHP, DBP, DIBP and BBP) have been placed on various ‘substances of concern’
lists around the world and severe restrictions on their use, particularly in textiles, flooring and children’s
toys, are being imposed.
Full-scale testing can be an expensive activity, especially in cases where a particular product or component
is obtained from several different suppliers. An inexpensive in-field screening protocol would provide a
mechanism to reduce the requirement for full analytical testing by identifying those cases where it is
necessary and those where it is not.
The REACH Centre are aiming to producing a simple, cost effective test for the identification of phthalates
contained in plastic components. A program of work has been developed in which a combination of 'lab-ona-chip' technology and efficient chemical methodology will be co-developed to provide a novel semiquantitative analytical protocol for phthalate detection. By achieving this, The REACH Centre and
collaborating bodies will be able to develop a world leading position in the testing and management of
phthalates.
During 2011, practical work on the development of this new approach to testing of phthalates in plastics
commenced. Initial studies were carried out to assess the impact of solvent, temperature, time and sample
particle size on extraction efficiency. The aim of this practical work was to identify the mildest and most
benign experimental conditions under which phthalates can be extracted reliably from plastics. The
conclusions of this work will be used to underpin the design of a new spot test for rapid and hopefully nondestructive testing of phthalates in articles. In addition to the practical work, a literature review was
undertaken. The methodology for phthalate sequestration, hydrolysis and complexation have all been
investigated with a view to developing a selective colorimetric response to phthalate esters.
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The REACH Centre is now seeking collaborative partners and funding to progress the work.
FURTHER INFORMATION
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ALAN BEST
REACH CENTRE LANCASTER UNIVERSITY
REACH READY
HSE
New Chair Person &
Secretariat 2012/13
FLOORING SUSTAINABILITY PARTNERSHIP
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2012 Secretariat support
No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Company
CRUK
Recofloor (on behalf of Altro and Polyflor)
Shaw Industries
Interface Europe
Headlam
FeRFA
Karndean
CFA
Anglo Recycling
Confirmed £500 member fee
£500
£500
£500
£500
£500
£500
£500
£500
£500
£4,500
FLOORING SUSTAINABILITY PARTNERSHIP
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Flooring Product Category Rules
• Project: Produce Product Category Rules (PCRs) appropriate for
recycling and recovery of post installation and post consumer flooring
• Will allow comparative Life Cycle Assessments to be carried out
between different end of life processes on flooring waste materials –
e.g. impact of landfilling, vs energy from waste, vs recycling, vs
reuse etc
• Draft Flooring PCR uidance to be complete 9th March 2012 for
dissemination to FSP members
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AOB &
Date of Next meeting
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