ResourceFull Use Pilot
An Innovative Local Resource Exchange
Columbia Corridor Breakfast Forum
June 24, 2009
Dorothy Fisher Atwood
Zero Waste Alliance
datwood@zerowaste.org
Debra Taevs
Pollution Prevention Resource Center
dtaevs@pprc.org
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Agenda
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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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Zero Waste Alliance
Following Nature’s model…
• 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
www.zerowaste.org
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Pollution Prevention Resource
Center (PPRC)
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
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
Industrial Ecology
“A Rose by any other name would still smell as sweet…”
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, 1594
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By-Product Synergy
Materials Exchange
Beneficial Use
Resourceful Use
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??
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 Fenceline
Create Top Level Input/Output (I/O) Diagram
fenceline
Resources
The Organization
Operations
Products
By-products
Waste
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Steps 2 and 3: Identify Key Activities
Create I/O Diagram for Each Operation
Resources
Operation
Activities
Products
By-products
Waste
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Clark County Public Works Fenceline
Vehicle Maintenance Yard
Resources
• New vehicles
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• Vehicle fuel (B20
and gasoline)
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• Lubricants
• Service parts
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• Misc. shop
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supplies
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• Tools and equip.
• Office supplies
• Water
• Electricity
• Nat. gas
Waste
Operations
Management &
Procurement
Facilities
Management
Fuel Islands
Emergency Service
Heavy Equipment
• Combustion gasses
• Used parts (some)
• Used spill clean up
materials
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Light Vehicles
Fabrication
Parts
Mark Ready
Acquisition
Remote Fueling
• Trash
• Haz. Waste
Products
• Transportation
services, mobility
• Vehicles maintained
By-products
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Used vehicles
Scrapped vehicles
Used parts (rebuild)
Used oils
Scrap metal
Cardboard, paper
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Clark County Public Works Operation
Remote Fueling
Activities
Resources
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B20 diesel fuel
Motor oil
Hydraulic oil
Antifreeze
ATF
Spill clean up
matls
• Service parts
• Filters
• Rags
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Filling bulk tanks on truck
Driving truck around
Dispensing from truck
Remote servicing of vehicles
Fueling the truck
Spill clean up
Waste
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Evaporated fuel
Combustion gasses
Used parts (some)
Used spill clean up
materials
Products
• Fueled and serviced
vehicles
By-products
• Used parts (some)
• Used filters
• Used motor oil &
ATF
• Dirty rags
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Resources, Products, By-products, Waste
Inputs
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
Outputs
Products
include:
Products
include:
• •Tangible
Products
Tangible
Products
• •Services
Services
By-products: (a type of waste)
Waste (everything else), including:
• Secondary Products
• Air Emissions
•• Recyclable
Materials
Waste Water,
Storm Water
Waste
(everything in
else),
including:
• Contaminants
Waste
Water
•• Air
Emissions
Heat,
Sunlight, Rainwater
•• Waste
Water,
Storm Water
“Solid”,
Municipal
Waste
•• Contaminants
in Waste Water
Hazardous Waste
•• Heat,
Rainwater
Time,Sunlight,
Absenteeism,
Inefficiency
• “Solid”, Municipal Waste
• Hazardous Waste
• Time, Absenteeism, Inefficiency
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Three Case Studies
1. Northwest By-Product Synergy Network
(Puget Sound)
2. Eastern Washington Industrial Materials
Exchange (Tri-Cities)
3. UK example
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
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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
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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
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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)
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
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
National Industrial Symbiosis Project
U.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 Atwood
Debra Taevs
Associate
Debuty Director
One World Trade Center
121 S.W. Salmon St., Ste 210
Portland, OR 97204
Tel: 503-699-7834
Fax: 503-279-9381
PPRC…….
datwood@zerowaste.org
www.zerowaste.org
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