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Transparency is leverage for new businesses

Transparency is leverage for new businesses

SSIP (Italian Leather Research Institute) presentation at the ILM webinar March, 7 - 2018

Paolo Gurisatti

March 07, 2018
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  2. TRANSPARENCY
    IS
    LEVERAGE
    FOR
    NEW BUSINESSES
    Paolo Gurisa+
    President SSIP
    (ILRI - Italian Leather Research Ins8tute)
    Naples
    March, 7 – 2018

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  3. THREE DRIVING FORCES
    Transparency is required by wastewater treatment authori8es. Two main
    concerns: a) presence of pollu8ng molecules; b) reduc8on of organic sludge and
    safe gasifica8on
    Transparency is required by clients. LWG, EPD and ZDHC are forcing leather
    producers to cer8fy chemicals contained in products and processes. Great
    discussion on methods is rising
    Transparency is a basic condi8on for exploi8ng the poten8al of new
    technologies for organic waste transforma8on in new by-products and recycled
    raw materials suited for commercialisa8on

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  4. WASTEWATER TREATEMENT CHALLENGES
    Tradi8onal treatments (chemical-physical and biological) face new problems in
    reducing metal molecules and recalcitrant COD, mainly when wet-blue and wet-
    white flow together in the same sewage collec8on system
    Ozonisa8on, ac8vated carbons and MBR treatments, applied at the end of the
    depura8on system, fail in segrega8ng polluted molecules (beyond high power
    consump8on)
    The perspec8ve of early selec8on of specific pollutants in innova8ve sewage
    collec8on systems and the introduc8on of new treatment technologies (prior to
    exis8ng plants) drive to smarter and automa8c control systems (4.0)

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  5. ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY SOCIAL NEEDS
    Leading trade organisa8ons (mainly in the fashion system) encourage the claim
    for safe and environment friendly products. ZDHC, as a volunteer agreement
    among producers and distributors, may be considered a “scaffolding structure”
    of a new market system (sustainable)
    LWG, EPD and other cer8fica8on processes force leather producers and chiefly
    chemicals developers to construct a “transparent” value chain, in order to
    reduce technical and commercial conflicts
    A great discussion has been launched, among technical experts and laboratories
    par8cipa8ng to ZDHC, in order to approve efficient methods (tests on tex8le are
    different from tests on leather)

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  6. THE NARROW PATH OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY
    Tracking and tracing methods and smart technologies facilitate the separa8on
    of proteins and other organic materials, as valuable inputs for new bio-chemical
    and bio-technology processes
    However specific regula8ons (or, beger, the absence of specific knowledge and
    regula8ons) on “substances of animal origin” treatments, complicate the legal
    framework of leather waste materials transforma8on, even though investment
    poten8al and commercial interest are rising
    New products, by-products and recycled raw materials need to be cer8fied as
    “non waste” in the Circular Economy market system. This perspec8ve requires
    new methods for con8nuous checking of de-composi8on processes

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  7. THREE EXAMPLES
    Bio-s8mulants for intelligent agriculture. These compounds come out
    hydrolysing processes transforming shaving powder in innova8ve materials that
    carry no traces of dangerous contaminants
    Bio-plas8cs and bio-gas, produced thanks to advanced biotechnologies, are
    materials completely different from the original input (waste and sludge)
    Kera8ns proteins recovered by hair, thanks to advanced extrac8on processes,
    do not contain any trace of the original cagle “organic” features, diseases and
    DNA structure

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  8. Biomass
    produc-on (SBR)
    PHA quenching
    or extrac-on
    PHA
    accumula-on
    Fermented stream
    storage tank
    Solid/liquid
    separa-on unit

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  9. Towards a new technology and legal framework
    When recycled materials, even of animal origin, are transformed with advanced
    bio-tech and bio-chemical processes they can be classified as “non waste”
    products and/or raw materials good for the Circular Economy applica8ons
    The development of a transparent technical and commercial value chain is
    highly dependent by an advanced regula8on system, providing investors and
    consumers with detailed informa8on and knowledge about new products and
    compounds

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