[tcrp-news] ACC's plastic LCI supports recycling as GHG tool
Tompkins County Relocalization Project
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Wed May 12 11:55:39 EDT 2010
Dear Friends--The following is forwarded from the GreenYes mailing list. Tom
>>At 06:22 PM 5/11/2010, Lacaze, Skip wrote:
>>This life cycle inventory may provide useful
>>information for those supporting recycling over
>>disposal or energy recovery (assuming that you
>>have a way to accumulate clean postconsumer plastic): [Emphasis added.]
>>
>>See
>><http://www.americanchemistry.com/s_acc/sec_news_article.asp?CID=206&DID=10916>http://www.americanchemistry.com/s_acc/sec_news_article.asp?CID=206&DID=10916
>>for more information and links to the study.
>>
>>New Study Confirms Recycling Plastics
>>Significantly Reduces Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
>>
>>ARLINGTON, VA (April 28, 2010) A new study
>>confirms that recycling plastics, specifically
>>PET and HDPE, results in significant savings in
>>energy and greenhouse gas emissions. The study
>>used life cycle inventory (LCI) methodology to
>>quantify the energy requirements, solid wastes,
>>and atmospheric and waterborne emissions for
>>the processes required to collect postconsumer
>>PET and HDPE packaging, sort and separate the
>>material, and reprocess it into clean recycled resin.
>>
>>Based on the LCI study results and data from
>>U.S. EPA, the generation of cleaned recycled
>>resin required 71 trillion Btu less than the
>>amount of energy that would be required to
>>produce the equivalent tonnage of virgin PET
>>and HDPE resin. In other words, the amount of
>>energy saved by recycling PET and HDPE
>>containers including bottles in 2008 was the
>>equivalent to the annual energy use of 750,000
>>U.S. homes. The corresponding savings in
>>greenhouse gas emissions was 2.1 million tons
>>of CO2 equivalents, an amount comparable to taking 360,000 cars off the road.
>>
>>(Calculations were based on the tonnage of
>>postconsumer PET and HDPE recovered in 2008,
>>and the energy required to collect, sort and
>>domestically reprocess the tonnage of plastics
>>containers (including bottles) recovered in 2008.)
>>
>>The new study, Final ReportLife Cycle
>>Inventory of 100% Postconsumer HDPE and PET
>>Recycled Resin from Postconsumer Containers and
>>Packaging, conducted by Franklin Associates
>>Ltd., was jointly sponsored by the American
>>Chemistry Council (ACC), the Association of
>>Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR), the
>>National Association for PET Container
>>Resources (NAPCOR) and the PET Resin Association (PETRA).
>>
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