Cradle to Cradle Rethinking the way we make things

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1 Cradle to Cradle Rethinking the way we make things By Dr. Monika Griefahn Santiago de Chile, November 13,

2 The trash vortex of the North Pacific is an area the size of Central Europe. 2

3 Death in plastic soup The proof is found in the stomach of seabirds: plastic pollution of the oceans has now reached the Northwest coast of Canada, which until just recently was considered one of the last unpolluted coasts. A Team of scientists [ ] discovered plastic laces, Styrofoam, or plastic wrap in 92.5% of the 67 fulmars found dead on the beach. On average, 36.8 pieces of plastic were found per bird, and one even had 454 pieces in its stomach. Source: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 153 from Thursday, July 5 th 2012, page 18 3

A Team of scientists [ ] discovered plastic laces, Styrofoam, or plastic wrap in 92.5% of the 67 fulmars found dead on the beach.

4 Environmental Disasters 4

5 In the European regions it takes 100 to 300 years to build a 1 cm layer of humus. 25 cm of humus is needed to have soil which is fertile enough to be used for food production. Every year we lose times more humus than we build up. 5

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7 From cradle to grave 7

8 Indoor air pollution 8

9 Off-Gassing Cromatogram: Carpet (synthetic fiber) 9

10 Are we too many? are they too many? 4x biomass 10

11 Positive footprint 11

12 Effective and useful Absorbiert CO2 Produziert Sauerstoff Produziert Biomasse Unterstützt Biodiversität Stellt Lebensraum bereit Filtert die Luft Produziert Boden etc. 12

13 Biological Metabolism Technical Metabolism 13

14 Biological Nutrient 14

15 Offset-Printing innovated by gugler 15

16 Puma 16

17 Trigema 17

18 AVEDA 3R Reducir, Reutilizar, Reciclar Cradle to Cradle certified cosmetic products Biological cycle Packaging Technical cycle 18

19 Technical Nutrient 19

20 Steelcase 20

21 Desso 21

22 Philips-TV-set, produced with a high amount of recycled aluminium, with very few rare earth elements, without PVC, remote control working with solar energy 22

23 Buildings like trees, cities like forests 23

24 Ferrer Research & Development Center, Barcelona 24

25 1992 UNCED in Rio de Janeiro Opening of the first bionutrient recycling facility in Silva Jardim Rio+20 Hundreds of bionutrient recycling facilities operating in many countries 25

26 Bionutrient recycling in the favelas of Brasil, 1992 today 26

27 Haiti: bionutrient recycling structures survived 7.0 earthquake 27

28 Oia Instituto Ambiental Latin America Soil recovery Nutrient recycling Energy from Biomass Economic profitability Social justice 28

29 QUALITY OF NUTRIENTS Profitable nutrient recycling into crops Soil manufacturing QUALITY OF CURRENT SOLAR INCOME Energy from current biomass Sunlight purifies water Sun heats biodigesters QUALITY OF LIFE Conceptual diversity - innovation Cultural diversity - social justice Biodiversity - reforestation 29

30 Cradle to Cradle certification: EPEA Hamburg in cooperation with Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute in San Francisco 30

The minimum level of achievement in any of the five

31 Not a pass/fail model, but concept of continuous improvement Five level system: Basic, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum. The minimum level of achievement in any of the five categories ultimately determines the final certification level. 31

32 Four steps of certification Material Assessment: Requires declaration of all ingredients of a product - all chemicals and all CASnumbers (exception: basic level). Process Evaluation: Evaluation of the production process according to the criteria Renewable Energy, Social Fairness, Water Management Audit (done by C2CPII) Certificate (issued by C2CPII) 32

33 The product of Cradle to Cradle certification is assessed according to the following criteria: Material Health Reutilization in technical or biological metabolisms Energy strategies of production process Social policies Water strategy in production process 33

34 Incineration = waste of valueable nutrients like copper Germany: - slag of incineration contains t copper/a (worth 100 mio. US-dollar/a) - Same time: theft of copper rain pipes from churches 34

35 Thank you! Monika Griefahn GmbH institut für medien umwelt kultur Postfach Buchholz, Germany Tel.: office@griefahn.de Internet: 35

A clean energy solution from cradle to grave

Environmental Product Declaration A clean energy solution from cradle to grave Offshore wind power plant employing SWT-6.0-154 siemens.com / wind 2 Assessing the performance of a wind power plant The environmental