Transparency is leverage for new businesses

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