Progettare, costruire , vivere - Dalla culla alla culla

Cradle to Cradle

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Prof. Dr. Michael Braungart

CRADLE TO CRADLE® in BELGIUM

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The Belgian EU Presidency wants to promote the concept of

‘sustainable materials management’, …which covers the whole life-cycle of products

in a so-called ‘cradle-to-cradle’ approach.”

July 2010

Cradle To Grave 速 Design Paradigm

Precious Slag From Waste Incineration

• Incineration slag contains 13,000 tonnes/a of copper (average Germany) • It is worth of $100 million per year (Price rate 2010)

Copper - The Situation • •

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Reserves known for about 50 years 28% of copper that humanity has already extracted until now is considered definitively lost Only 25% of copper is recycled 20 years after production Decreasing tendency Copper is commercialised on the basis of an English standard (purity of 99,99%) that does not take into account how it has been produced

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Environmental Disasters

Cradle To Grave : TARGET IS ZERO

•Reduction •Avoidance •Minimization •Prevention ECO-EFFICIENCY

Loss of Topsoil We lose 4000 – 6000 times more topsoil than we rebuild

Indoor Air-Pollution

Source: http://www.gonaturalbaby.com/blog/indoor-air-pollution/326/

Indoor Air Quality for Our Children

Bad Design: Chromatogram For Children‘s Toy

SOURCE: Hamburger Umweltinstitut e.V.

Off Gassing: Computerscreen 1-Hexanol, 2-ethyl

Impunity from Solvent

Butylated Hydroxytoluene 2,6-DI-T-BUTYL-4-METHYLENE-2 Phenol, (dimethylethyl)methoxyFamesene 1H-Cycloprop[e]azulene, 1a,2,3,4,4 Copaene Tertadecane

Tridecane

Dodecane Decanal

Pentanal Carbon Tetrachloride (-> solvent) Benzene

Methane, Chloroido- (-> solvent)

Octane Acetic Acid, butyl ester Hexanal Toluene

Neuro toxic at certai n conce ntrati ons

Cyclohexen-one, trimethyl Undecane Benzene, (methoxyl-methylethyl) Nonanal Benzenemethanol, alpha, alpha, d Benzene, ethyl-dimethylBenzene, methyl-propylD-Limonene Benzene, methyl-(methylethyl) Heptane, pentamethylDecane beta-Pinene Octanal Trimethylbenzene Benzene, ethyl-methylBenzene, propylalpha-Pinene Hexanal, 2-ethylBenzene, (methylethyl)n-Nonane Benzene, 1,2-dimethyl Heptanal Cyclonhexanone Benzene, 1,3-/1,4-dimethylEthylbenzene

Suspe cted carcin ogen

Off Gassing: Siemens Vacuum Cleaner Minutes

After 15

Asbestos-free Brake Pads

A Solution?

Electron microscopy pictures of brake dust. O. von Uexku¨ ll and Michael Braungart et al. / Journal of Cleaner Production 13 (2005) 19–31

Are We Too Many?

“No goal is more crucial to healing the global environment, than stabilizing human population .�

Al Gore

Are We Too Many?

unwelcome to the planet?

Are THEY Too Many?

The Biomass of ANTS is HUMANS

4 Times Greater Than

Cradle To Cradle ® : The Goal Is QUALITY ECO-EFFECTIVENESS

•Define •Increase •Support •Optimize ECO-EFFICIENCY

Identify The Best: ABC-X CATEGORIZATION OPTIMAL OPTIMIZABLE

TOLERABLE

NOT ACCEPTABLE NOT CHARACTERIZED

Cradle To Cradle 速 : Doing The Right Things!

DOING THINGS RIGHT

DOING THE RIGHT THINGS

TRIPLE Top Line

Cradle To Cradle ® Design Paradigm • Waste equals Food (NUTRIENTS are NUTRIENTS) • Use Current Solar Income • Celebrate Diversity

Biological Metabolism

Technical Metabolism

Biological Nutrient

KLM - Compostable Airplane Seat Prototype

Technical Nutrient

It’s a task we’re proud to undertake, for the betterment of our products, our brand, the people and our planet.

Stef Kranendijk

CEO

"The greenest house is the one that never gets built.“

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— Whit Faulconer, GreenBlue

BUILDINGS LIKE TREES CITIES LIKE FORESTS

Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies I Oberlin College, OH

WILLIAM McDONOUGH

Ford Rouge Center

Eco-Effective Architecture • More Impact

• MORE – – – – – –

Habitat Biological Diversity Clean Water Fresh Air Beauty FUN!

Herman Miller “Green House” Factory

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

www.oia.org.br

Biomass Nutrient Recycling: Sewage Treatment

Phosphate Recovery

BIONORICA: Building Like A Tree

Building: BIONORICA NEUMARKT

• Defining a C2C Building • Criteria • Implementation • C2C Energy • Measuring: Intentions, Milestones & Roadmaps

For more information: www.duurzaamgebouwd.nl/bookstore

van Gansewinkel Groep- Nutrient Management Company “For us Cradle to Cradle is not an invention but a discovery of what our work really is about!

It is so inspirational for our company.“ Ruud Sondag, CEO van Gansewinkel Groep

Example Of A Cradle To Cradle 速 Platform

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Michael Braungart braungart@epea.com