Overview of the Electrical and Electronic Conclusions, way forward Equipment Manufacturing sector and and information gathering definition of the scope of the sectoral reference document Paolo Canfora Marco Dri Ioannis Antonopoulos DG ENV to produce a schematic diagram including the different policy tools Pierre Gaudillat affecting the electrical and electronic equipment manufacturing sector jrc-ipts-emas@ec.europa.eu Sustainable Production and Consumption Unit Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) Joint Research Centre (JRC) 2 European Commission Main environmental aspects of the electrical and electronic equipment manufacturing sector Manufacturing operations Ensure that the terminology on hazardous substances is in line with RoHS directive The environmental pressure of biodiversity must cover not only site impacts but BEMPs also impacts from supply chain 3 4 1
BEMP 1: Efficient supply and substitution of compressed air BEMP 2: Energy-efficient cooling technology • Review the content of this BEMP in light of the discussion. • Agreed! • Other criteria (apart from energy efficiency), e.g. size, weight, end of life intervene in the decision between technology options. • Paul (Pneurop) to provide some written comments/feedback on the current text of the BEMP 5 6 BEMP 3: Efficient energy use in clean-room technology BEMP 4: Energy efficient soldering • Clarify the applicability of this BEMP for new built or retrofitting • Mention lead free soldering in a global context • Silke to put us in contact with a clean-room construction company to review • Mention the electronics manufacturers for the automotive sector under BEMP applicability • EPI: kWh/cm2 of processed silicon is not universal but still meaningful • Tom to provide data on payback times • Consider minimising the external heat load e.g. heat from solar radiation • EPI: kWh/m2 depends on the kind of printed circuit board manufactured 7 8 2
BEMP 5: Minimising the use of perfluorocompound (PFC) BEMP 6: Substitution and optimised use of VOC-based solvents • Agreed • Silke to help us reach out to the industry association for other examples • Manfred to send some comments on other PFCs • Miquel to provide information on use of solvents in coating and washing machines (and their efficiency) and limiting of VOCs emissions 9 10 BEMP 7: Water savings and recovery in cascade rinsing BEMP 8: On-site recycling of metals in process chemicals systems • Agreed! • Stephane to help us contact a French ‘frontrunner’ company in the field of recovery of precious metals from process chemicals with polymers. 11 12 3
BEMP 9: Protecting and enhancing biodiversity BEMP 10: Use of renewable energy • Add land-use and soil sealing among the environmental pressures addressed. • Consider further environmental benefits of increased vegetation. • Ensure biomass is sustainably sourced. • Consider EPI on % of biodiversity friendly premises, compensation of the biodiversity footprint, implementation of municipality’s biodiversity plan. • Marion to provide information on German project on greening premises (check if EEE companies involved), on improved well-being for employees, benefits of green corridors. • Evert to send information on monitoring the effort of companies in the improvement of biodiversity impacts of their supply chains. • Consider developing those aspects into a separate supply chain biodiversity BEMP. 13 14 BEMPs for manufacturing operations (overview) Day 2 • General agreement with the approach and all the proposed BEMPs. • Develop a BEMP on waste management on manufacturing premises • Change title of this chapter to “manufacturing operations” • All to provide feedback on the level of ambition and relevance of the BEMPs agreed. 15 16 4
BEMPs for supply chain BEMP 11: Assessment tools for cost-effective and environmentally sound substitution of hazardous management substances • Maintain Environmental Performance Indicators • Provide inventory of materials / full material declaration (best practice): would be v. difficult, but some frontrunners achieve it. • Clarify between process chemicals (OEM/supplier) vs. final product contents. • Update cost data taking into account testing procedures • Take into account hazardous chemicals in light of WEEE in addition to RoHS, REACH 17 18 BEMP 12: Elimination of certain phthalates [DEHP, BEMP 13: Elimination of brominated flame DBP, BBP and DIBP] retardants (BFR) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) • Suggest specifying the concerned substances in the title of the BEMP • Relevance of BEMP is questioned. (4 phthalates on list of very high concern). • Comments to be received on technical aspects (by Easter) / • Might be under an EU ban in summer 2015, but keep as BEMP in discussion to be pursued among interested parties. meantime. • Domestic appliance vs ICT: CECED to provide information on current efforts . • Dirk to provide comments on the text of the BEMP and references 19 20 5
BEMP 14: Disclose and set targets for supply BEMP 15: Conducting Life-Cycle Assessment chain GHG emissions • Consider extending the EPIs to also include results/outputs (e.g. green product sales, structural reduction of impacts) rather than processes / • BEMP to focus on improvement beyond mere reporting, transparency, inputs (LCA implementation). and use as internal tool. • Strengthen economic case: • Stress issues of currently existing methodologies: lack of comparability • Highlight the upfront cost of first-time LCA implementation. / aimed at internal use • Specific data availability issue for EEE sector e.g. emission factors, in • Stress the step of monitoring LCA implementation and resulting particular for fluorinated GHGs. changes / improvements • Include mention of benefits and costs in BEMP itself rather than • Extend approach to closed-loop / reverse channel references. • All to provide data relevant to business case 21 22 BEMP 16: Increasing the content of recycled plastics in BEMPs for recycling of waste from EEE – Case study of closed-loop recycling process for electrical and electronic equipment polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polypropylene (PP) plastics in inkjet printing cartridges • Include environmental pressures such as emissions to soil and water bodies • Revise BEMP • Change title of chapter (include design and re-use) • extend scope to broader families of products • Include definitions (from CENELEC standard for WEEE and from British • avoid conflicting objectives with compliance / improvement standard for refurbishment) according to other dimensions e.g. phasing out of chemicals. • Consider developing a BEMP on design for 'refurbishability' / reparability • consider broadening context of BEMP as part of integrated (e.g. modular design, minimisation of kinds of screw used) approach including e.g. refilling, remanufacturing. o Julia and Conny to provide information • Norbert to provide data on types of plastic which could be recovered in closed loop. 23 24 6
BEMP 17: End-of-life removability of rechargeable BEMP 18: Integrated Product Service Offerings (IPSO) batteries • Ian to provide information from ZeroWin project (FP7 project): business • Consider if possible for smaller smart products with embedded batteries case and barriers to IPSO. (e.g. smart watches). • Move from only B2B to B2C. • Mention safety issue with battery easy removability. • Look at voluntary agreement under Ecodesign for set-top boxes • Consider possibility of more in-depth cost calculations. (provision about taking back). • • On top of environmental/resource efficiency benefit, also safety benefit Consider that this does not work for smaller appliances with low bill of at shredders. materials or large (heavy) appliances if the economical/technical value. • Marcel to provide information on applicability. 25 26 BEMP 19: Warranted refurbishment of used BEMP 20: Non-destructive extraction of circuit products boards • • Ian to provide information from ZeroWin project (FP7 project): three Reconsider this BEMP. case studies with LCA. • If this BEMP is kept, change title to clarify this is not really "non- • Consider GPP as driver for warrant refurbishment (public destructive" (i.e. this is for recycling not re-use). administrations buying used equipment). • Make clear that this is not about waste but products. • Ensure that this is about high quality refurbishment (as good as it was first brought to the market), mainly possible by the manufacturers. • Add also that harnessing parts for services is possible. • Martin to provide comments/suggested improvements for the BEMP. 27 28 7
BEMP 21: Innovative sorting solutions for black BEMPs for recycling of waste from plastics from WEEE electrical and electronic equipment (final overview) • Consider broadening the scope (the technology described is 20 years old and only one company is doing it). • • Stephane to provide information on FP7 project 'WEEELIBS' on black Consider developing a BEMP on declaration of non-export of non- plastics separation. functioning devices • • Norbert to provide suggestion on BEMP for improving plastics Marion to provide information recycling. • But covered in WEEE and other international fora • Consider developing a BEMP on improving WEEE transport (minimising disruption by minimising loading/unloading) taking into account the relevant CENELEC standard • Julia to provide more ideas for BEMPs. 29 30 The END 31 8
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