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AHWG March 23AHWG March 23rd rd 20042004

Agenda

• Welcome, introduction to the meeting• Tour de table• Scope of the project, the future time

schedule• Presentation of the Danish LCA• Presentation of the criteria so far

Discussion• The discussion will follow the structure

presented in the discussion paper

Conclusions from the discussion

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Ideas from

• Background report

• Swan-Scheme

• Evaluation reports- J. Gruvmark; DTU, phase 2

• LCA studies- Framkom; DTU; phase 1; IMT; etc.

• Interviews with experts with experience from more than 400 printing houses

• 1th Ad Hoc working group meeting


Two different kinds of requirements

• Mandatory (Absolute levels)

• Optional (Positive scoring system)



Printing House

Raw material

-Paper

-Chemicals

Energy

Transports

Emissions to air

Emissions to water

Waste-Hazardous waste

-Liquid waste

-Solid waste

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Energy

Transport

Printing House

• Independent of the printing technology.



Raw Material

Paper

• Fibres

• Hazardous Chemicals

• Emissions

• Energy

Raw Material

-Chemicals

General rule:

Chemical products that are used in the ecolabelledproduction of the printing matter shall not be assigned or may be assigned at the time of application any of the following risk phrases (or combination thereof): R50, R50/R53, R51/R53.

No chemical formulation that contains more than a total of 2,5% of substances that may assigned any of the above risk phrases shall be used.



Raw Material

-Chemicals

Assessment and verification:

The applicant shall provide a declaration of compliance with this criterion together with appropriate supporting documentation such as the relevant Safety Data Sheets.

Raw Material

-Chemicals

Biocides

The active components in the biocides shall not be potentially bioaccumulative.



Raw Material

-Chemicals

Biocides


The applicant shall provide a declaration of compliance with this criterion together with the relevant material safety data sheet or test report which shall indicate the test method, threshold and conclusion stated, using the following test methods: OECD 107, 117 or 305 A-E.

Raw Material

-Chemicals

Additional options:

Damping Solution

Use of damping solutions based on water containing maximum of 4% alcohol is awarded points (after dilution with water).

The surfactants in the damping solution shall be readily biodegradable??



Raw Material

-Chemicals

Damping Solution




Raw Material

-Chemicals

Cleaning Agents

Option 1Points?

Water, acid or alkaline washing agents without any organic solvents included 3

Vegetable and volatile 2(vapour pressure <0.01 kPa, 20ºC)

Volatile (vapour pressure > 0.01 kPa, 20ºC) 1

The content of aromatic hydrocarbon in the cleaning agents must not exceed 1%, maximum vapour pressure 5 kPa (at 20oC) 0

Raw Material

-Chemicals

Cleaning Agents

Option 2Points??

Water, acid or alkaline washing agents without any organic solvents included 6

Vegetable 5

Vapour pressure at 20oC is below 0.01 kPa 4

Vapour pressure at 20oC is 0.01-0.05 kPa 3

Vapour pressure at 20oC is 0.05-0.30 kPa 2

Vapour pressure at 20oC is more than 0.30 kPa 1

The content of aromatic hydrocarbon in the cleaning agents must not exceed 1%, maximum vapour pressure 5 kPa (at 20oC) 0



Raw Material

-Chemicals

Cleaning agents


The applicant shall provide a declaration of compliance with this criterion together with appropriate supporting documentation such as the composition and scoring points of the washing agents. Scoring of washing agents are done according to the vapour pressure of solvents with 20oC.

Raw Material

-ChemicalsDyes and Inks

General requirements

Additional requirements and options:

Use of vegetable based inks is awarded by points?

Use of water based inks is awarded by points

Used inks shall not be based on lead, copper, chromium, nickel or aluminium

(Exception for Copper phtalocyanine)


Raw Material

-Chemicals

Dyes and Inks




Raw Material

-Chemicals

APEOs, Phthalates, Halogenatedsolvents and Ethylene glycolethers (classified)

Shall not be added to cleaning chemicals, dyesand Inks, lacquering chemicals or productionchemicals.


Raw Material

-Chemicals

APEOs, Phthalates, Halogenatedsolvents and Ethylene glycol ethers(classified)





Emissions

-Silver

Mandatory:

The emission of silver to the sewage system shall not exceed 10 mg/m2 film.

Optional:

Closed system for rinsing water system is awarded points.


Emissions

-Cr

-Gravure printing:

Mandatory:

Emission of Cr to the sewage system shall not exceed 45 mg Cr/m2 cylinder surface.

Optional:

Emissions of Cr less than 20 mg Cr/m2 cylinder surface is awarded points.

Dechroming equipment for cleaning the exhaustedgases is awarded with points.

Emissions

-Cu

-Gravure printing:

Mandatory:

Emission of Cu to the sewage system shall not exceed 400 mg Cu/m2 cylinder surface.

Optional:

Emissions of Cu less than 200 mg Cu/m2 cylinder surface is awarded with points.



Emissions

-Toluene

-Gravure printing:

Mandatory:

The efficiency of toluene recovery shall not be less than 98%.

Optional:

Collection of diffuse toluene emissions and low toluene content in the finished printed product (300 mg/kg) is awarded with points.

Emissions

Cr, Cu and Toluene

Assment and verification:

Emission values for Cr and Cu emissions to water based on measurements made after the treatment plant shall be reported.

The Cr emission values to the air shall be provided.

Toluene emissions to air through the main chimneyor after all the carbon adsorbers shall be reported. The reported values shall be based on continuousmeasurements.


After treatment

LaminationLamination may only be used in for example covers of books and catalogues, binders and folders.

Lamination by self-adhesive, non water soluble adhesives shall not be used.

LacqueringThe used lacquers shall be water based.

AdhesivesThe used adhesives shall be water based dispersion adhesives.



Energy

Optional

• Measurements on the energy use.• An energy inspection has been done and an

investment on energy savings has been implemented.

• Purchase and use of non-fossil energy.


Transports

Optional

If the printing house have its own vehicles:

• a training plan for the drivers, • regular serving of the vehicles,• to optimise the transports,• Requirements on hired transportation

service.

Waste

The production site shall have a system for handling waste and residual products arising from the eco-labelled production.


• procedures for separating and using recyclable materials from the waste stream.

• procedures for recovering materials for otheruses such as incineration.

• procedueres for handling hazardous waste.

Waste

Developing agents, fixing solutions, film and photo-graphic paper containing silver, used filters, residualdamping solutions and washing agents and solutions etc. shall be collected for destruction or recycling.

Cleaning cloths and rags shall be delivered to incineration with energy recovery or laundry.

For example, Digital printing:

Discarded electronic components, toner cartridges, used printing forms, depleted photosensitive layersshall be processed.

Toner residuals and other residual chemicals shall becollected.


Waste


The applicant shall provide a description of the waste management plan for the printing house concerned together with the lists including the different waste fractions and the relevant certificates on approved processing of waste (e.g. invoices, transport documents or agreement of processing).


EMAS and/or ISO 14000

Optional

• Registered under EMAS or certified according to ISO 14001 will be awarded positive points.


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