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Detoxification & Clean Production

Detoxification & Clean Production. Design & “Products Plus” Goes hand-in-hand with conserving and closing loops: Waste as Food Main problems rooted in the Epoch of Oil Knowledge & integration with nature Weak area of Industrial Ecology to date.

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Detoxification & Clean Production

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  1. Detoxification & Clean Production Design & “Products Plus” Goes hand-in-hand with conserving and closing loops: Waste as Food Main problems rooted in the Epoch of Oil Knowledge & integration with nature Weak area of Industrial Ecology to date

  2. Commoner’s Laws of Ecology(The Closing Circle, 1971) • Everything is connected to everything else. • Everything has to go somewhere (there is no such place as away). • Nature knows best. • There is no such thing as a free lunch; all debts are repaid.

  3. Supplementary 5th Law (1990) “If you don’t put a synthetic toxin into the environment, it isn’t there.” the role of prevention

  4. Current Regulation • Based on determining “safe” exposures and limiting releases to environment • Even where this makes sense, it’s commonly negated by economic growth • Chemicals innocent until proven guilty • Little attention to synergistic effects

  5. Toxicity • intentional: pesticides, disinfectants, etc. • often a substitute for proper design: agriculture • not intentional, but due to functional properties or chemical structure that make them likely to be toxic • completely unrelated to function: to provide corrosion-resistance, pigmentation or flexibility. “products plus”

  6. Clean Production • …promotes renewable energy, non toxic materials in a closed loop and sustainable product design • …rooted within circular concepts of the product life cycle • …based on the Precautionary Principle

  7. Materials Flow Model (Geiser, 2001)

  8. Industrial Material Groups(source: Geiser, 2001)

  9. Inherently toxic throughout its life cycle • The only chlorinated plastic • Petrochemical industry: the nexus of contemporary capitalism’s brown industry. • Chlorine: the nexus of the petrochemical industry. • Grew by replacing safer substances • Key struggle within the Green Building Councils

  10. Strategies • Bans / phase-outs • precautionary principle • Product Stewardship: • EPR; Intell. Product System • 3rd Party Certification: LEED • Toxics Use Reduction initiatives • TURI (Massachusetts) • corporate initiatives: Nike, SONY, etc. • Facilitation of alternative materials • Green Procurement • Building Codes

  11. TURI Strategies for Substitution & Reduction • material substitution in the product • e.g. water- for oil- based paints • material substitution in the process • aqueous cleaning systems for chlorinated solvents • improvements in production efficiencies • automated temperature controls • improvements in process operations or maintenance • internal recycling or closed-loop processing

  12. E-waste • e-waste • e-waste

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