Life+ programme:

A Circular Economy for the European Gypsum Industry with the Demolition and Gypsum Industry with the Demolition and

Recycling Industry

13 November 2012, Gypsum Forum, Brussels

Presented by: Prof. Maria Founti

Contents

� Funding source – Consortium

� Background – The Gypsum industry

� Selective deconstruction vs demolition

� Drivers

� Methodology

� Impact� Impact

Funding of C2CGYPSUM

� LIFE11 ENV/BE/001039

� LIFE+ Environment Policy & Governance in 2011:� supports pilot projects that contribute to

the development of innovative policy ideas, technologies, methods and instruments

� Duration: 36 months � Duration: 36 months (01.01.2013 – 01.01.2016)

� Total budget: 3,566,250.00 €

� EC contribution: 1,783,123.00€(50.00%)

Partnership

� 17 partners covering the entire value chain: The European Gypsum Industry, the Gypsum recyclers, Demolition companies and Academic institutions

� Coordination:

� Promotes the interests of the European Gypsum Industry and ensures that there is awareness at a European level of the contribution the Gypsum Industry makes to society in general and to the built environment in particular.

� Countries: BE, FR, DE, UK, DK, SP, GR

� Demonstration activities planned in Belgium, Germany, France – two pilot projects and UK - where a recycling culture is already developed

Partnership

� Demolition Companies.� OCCAMAT (FR) (SME – deconstruction)� Pinault-Gapaix (FR) (SMEdeconstruction)� Jaeger Ausbau GmbH & co KG (DE) (SME-deconstruction)� Recycling assistance BVBA (BE) (SME – deconstruction)� Cantillon (UK) (SME-deconstruction)

� Demolition Consultancy� Recovering SARL (FR)(consultancy re: deconstruction)

� Recyclers The consortium encompasses the only two major European recyclers with more than 25 years experience in the field.

� Gypsum Recycling International (DK)� Gypsum Recycling International (DK)� New West Gypsum Recycling (BE)

� Gypsum producers: The gypsum industry currently has three main operators covering 80% of the gypsum product market (Knauf, Lafarge Gypsum and Saint-Gobain Gyproc). They are all represented in the consortium as follows:

� Knauf Gips KG (DE)� Placoplatre (FR)� Saint Gobain Construction Products NV (BE)� Siniat (FR) & • Siniat (UK)-Etex group

� Academic partners� Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) (ES)� FGUPM-LOEMCO: Gypsum laboratory (ES)� National technical university of Athens (GR)

The European Gypsum and Anhydrite Industry

� General characteristics:

� One of the few vertically integrated industries within the construction products field: Companies which extract the mineral “Gypsum” also process it and manufacture the value-added products and systems used in construction.

� Gypsum products are indefinitely and fully recyclable as they always keep their natural properties during use.

� Gypsum companies strive to effectively recycle the products at the end of their life-cycle (renovation, demolition and also construction off-cuts).

The European Gypsum Industry

� The production:

� Annual turnover: 7.5 billion EURO

� Around 200 factories (plaster powder plants, plaster block plants and plasterboard plants)

� Employment directly to 28,000 people and 850,000 users of gypsum products (craftsmen, contractors). contractors).

� Production waste in the 27 Member States is estimated at 627.600 ton/year, a substantial proportion of which is recycled in the plants.

� Three main operators (Knauf, Siniat-Etex group- and Saint-Gobain Gypsum). SMEs are very active in plaster powder manufacturing and in the plaster block and plaster powder markets.

The European Gypsum Industry

� The product:� More than 1,600 million m2 of

European interior surfaces covered with plasterboards every year.

� More than 5 million tons of plaster/year are used in Europe for interior lining. Europe for interior lining.

� More than 20 million m2/year of European interior walls are separated using plaster blocks.

Gypsum Waste

� Three categories:� Production waste: Currently the industry controls

internally its recycling process.

� Construction waste: It could be easily recycled -but problems of collection.

� Demolition waste: The most complex to address because it adheres and it is mixed to other construction materials (such as plasters, paints & construction materials (such as plasters, paints & screeds etc).

� Although gypsum products are indefinitely and fully recyclable, only a small percentage of demolition waste is recycled in Europe.

Deconstruction

� Demolition instead of deconstruction:� Buildings currently demolished and not dismantled� Unsegregated waste goes to landfill� No possibility to recover valuable recyclable materials,

among others plasterboard waste.

� Application of selective deconstruction techniques:� It will lead to sorting and recycling of non-load bearing � It will lead to sorting and recycling of non-load bearing

elements for re-use in the production process.

� The production processes must be adapted to increase the

recycled content in the product. � Need for research.

Recycling and manufacturing process

Deconstruction

� Drivers for selective deconstructing:

� European environmental policies: Waste Framework Directive

(2008/98/EC) - Stricter criteria for landfilling of gypsum waste - An ambitious EU target of 70% for the recycling of EU target of 70% for the recycling of construction and demolition waste

� Legislative driver: Council decision (19/12/2002) establishing criteria and procedures for the acceptance of waste at landfills pursuant to Article 16 and Annex II to Directive 1999/31/EC

� Market driver: Green Public Procurement Criteria for Wall Panels, 2010 (i.e. plasterboard)

Why is our project important

� Our project closes the loop effectively and transforms the plasterboard demolition wastemarket to achieve higher recycling rates of plasterboard waste.

� Involves all the supply chain (demolishers, recyclers, manufacturers) and pushes it manufacturers) and pushes it forward to create a recycling and resource efficient economy.

� Fixes the end-of-waste status for gypsum waste on the basis of a regulatory approach.

� A paradigm and an incentive to recycle more.

Specific objectives

� Diagnosis of buildings, to demonstrate the feasibility and advantages of deconstruction versus demolition;

� Processing gypsum deconstruction waste to prepare it for re-use;

� Qualifying gypsum waste (including an audit of the potentially recyclable materials);

� Incorporation of the processed gypsum into the manufacturing process, including an assessment of technical difficulties, options and solutions;

� Production of European criteria for recycled gypsum to � Production of European criteria for recycled gypsum to establish the end of waste status, and the application for a Council regulation to confirm these criteria under Directive 2008/98/EC;

� Reassessment of the percentage of recycled gypsum (5%) established in the Green Public Procurement Criteria for Wall Panels developed by the European Commission (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/gpp/second_set_en.htm);

� Assessment of the carbon footprint and the methods to mitigate it at the construction, transport, processing and manufacturing levels.

Methodology

DeconstructionWaste

Qualification

Waste

Processing

Manufacturing

Process

Selective

deconstructionProcessing of

gypsum wasteBack to gypsum

Expected impact� Technical

� European handbook of best practices for controlled deconstruction of gypsum systems;

� European manual of best practices for auditing buildings;

� European specification/qualification for recycled gypsum;

� Environmental� Application of the Council regulation establishing criteria for determining

when gypsum waste ceases to be waste under Directive 2008/98/EC;

� Recycling target for gypsum waste;� Recycling target for gypsum waste;

� Adoption of the Green Public Procurement for Wall Panels that require at least 5% recycled gypsum in the panel

� Assessment of the carbon footprint of gypsum waste recycling.

� Socio-economic� Change of behaviour of local authorities towards a proper deconstruction of

the building;

� Increased sustainability of gypsum products – it is a credential in the local economy;

� Change of image of the demolition industry from “low level worker” towards “high level of expertise” which would require strict qualifications;

� Push towards home collection of plasterboard in the local area;

� Improved condition for the uptake of a gypsum recycling market.

Wish us Good luck!

� Project starts 01/01/2013

We hope to be able to transform

the gypsum demolition waste market

to achieve higher recycling rates of

gypsum waste, and create resource gypsum waste, and create resource

efficient economy in a collaborative

way.

� Your support is needed!