ResourceFull Use Pilot An Innovative Local Resource Exchange Columbia Corridor Breakfast Forum June 24, 2009

1. ResourceFull Use PilotAn Innovative Local Resource ExchangeColumbia Corridor Breakfast ForumJune 24, 2009 Dorothy Fisher Atwood Zero Waste Alliance datwood@zerowaste.org Debra Taevs Pollution Prevention Resource Center dtaevs@pprc.org

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Industrial Ecology “A Rose by any other name would still smell as sweet…” Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, 1594 • By-Product Synergy • Materials Exchange • Beneficial Use • Resourceful Use Image courtesy of http://stantonssheetmusic.wordpress.com/2009/04/

7. 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.

8. ResourceFull Use Overview

9. ResourceFull Use Overview

10. What’s still in the waste stream??

11. What’s still in the waste stream??

12. 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

13. Step 1 - Define your FencelineCreate Top Level Input/Output (I/O) Diagram fenceline The Organization Products Resources Operations By-products Waste

14. Steps 2 and 3: Identify Key ActivitiesCreate I/O Diagram for Each Operation Operation Products Resources Activities By-products Waste

15. Clark County Public Works Fenceline Vehicle Maintenance Yard Products Resources Operations • New vehicles • Vehicle fuel (B20 and gasoline) • Lubricants • Service parts • Misc. shop supplies • Tools and equip. • Office supplies • Water • Electricity • Nat. gas • Transportation services, mobility • Vehicles maintained • Management & Procurement • Facilities Management • Fuel Islands • Emergency Service • Heavy Equipment • Light Vehicles • Fabrication • Parts • Mark Ready • Acquisition • Remote Fueling By-products • Used vehicles • Scrapped vehicles • Used parts (rebuild) • Used oils • Scrap metal • Cardboard, paper • Combustion gasses • Used parts (some) • Used spill clean up materials • Trash • Haz. Waste Waste

16. Clark County Public Works Operation Remote Fueling Activities Products Resources • B20 diesel fuel • Motor oil • Hydraulic oil • Antifreeze • ATF • Spill clean up matls • Service parts • Filters • Rags • Fueled and serviced vehicles • Filling bulk tanks on truck • Driving truck around • Dispensing from truck • Remote servicing of vehicles • Fueling the truck • Spill clean up By-products • Used parts (some) • Used filters • Used motor oil & ATF • Dirty rags Waste • Evaporated fuel • Combustion gasses • Used parts (some) • Used spill clean up materials

17. Resources, Products, By-products, Waste Inputs Outputs 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 • Products include: • Tangible Products • Services • 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 • 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

18. Three Case Studies • Northwest By-Product Synergy Network (Puget Sound) • Eastern Washington Industrial Materials Exchange (Tri-Cities) • UK example

19. 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

20. 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

21. Network Activities • Large Community Meetings • Membership • Confidentiality • Targeted working groups • Regulatory advisors

22. 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

23. Eastern WA Industrial Materials Exchange • Sponsored by Boise Paper • Initially facilitated by PPRC • Grass roots • Ag community • Approx 20 participants • “Speed Dating”!

24. Eastern WA Industrial Materials Exchange Companies included; • Furniture company • Wineries • Fertilizer manufacturing • Animal feed • Other manufacturing • Landscapers, etc

25. Eastern WA Industrial Materials Exchange(Ray Lam) Tallow 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 • 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

26. 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.

27. 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

28. NISP ResultsMay 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

29. Speed Resource Exchange Dating

30. Contact: Debra Taevs Debuty Director PPRC……. Dorothy Fisher Atwood Associate One World Trade Center 121 S.W. Salmon St., Ste 210 Portland, OR 97204 Tel: 503-699-7834 Fax: 503-279-9381 datwood@zerowaste.org www.zerowaste.org