1 ResourceFull Use Pilot An Innovative Local Resource Exchange Columbia Corridor Breakfast Forum June 24, 2009 Dorothy Fisher Atwood Zero Waste Alliance Debra Taevs Pollution Prevention Resource Center

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 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 Following Nature’s model… Zero Waste Alliance

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 Pollution Prevention Resource Center (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 PPRC

By-Product Synergy Materials Exchange Beneficial Use Resourceful Use Industrial Ecology “A Rose by any other name would still smell as sweet…” Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, 1594 Image courtesy of

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.

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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 Fenceline Create Top Level Input/Output (I/O) Diagram The Organization fenceline Resources Products By-products Waste Operations

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

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

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

17 Products include: Tangible Products Services 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 Resources, Products, By-products, Waste 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 InputsOutputs 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

1.Northwest By-Product Synergy Network (Puget Sound) 2.Eastern Washington Industrial Materials Exchange (Tri-Cities) 3.UK example Three Case Studies

Northwest By-Product Synergy Network Est U.S. Business Council for Sustainable Development model Facilitated approach Paying members Puget Sound focus Approx 15 Organizations

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

Network Activities 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 CO 2 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) 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 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

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 5 th 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

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30 Contact: Dorothy Fisher Atwood Associate One World Trade Center 121 S.W. Salmon St., Ste 210 Portland, OR Tel: Fax: Debra Taevs Debuty Director PPRC…….