Evaluation of environmental aspects of sustainability

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Evaluation of environmental aspects of
sustainability

• Julio Cesar Fonseca - Anatel
• Paulo José Pereira Curado - CPqD
• Evandro César Longui CPqD
• Sirney Silveira CPqD
• Luiz Eduardo F. Dias Jr. CPqD

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Summary

• Introduction
• Basic Concepts
• Telecom products disposal - Brazilian Operators
• Tools for product design
• Case Study Optical Fiber Cable
• Conclusions

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Sustainability is a so strange concept for
economists in a capitalists systems as profit is
for manager in a soviet system as well .
William Ruckelshaus, ex-Presidente do World
Resources Institute e ex- Presidente da Agência
de Proteção Ambiental dos Estados Unidos - EPA.
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Sustainability

• Concepts
• The original term was sustainability
  development
• It means a continuous development
• Sustainability development is builded over three
  columns interrelaship and common supported
• Economic development
• Social development
• Environmental protection
• Now Sustainability is applied for all human
  activities .

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What is sustainability?
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Advantages

• Sustainability development
• Reducing carbon footprint by business activities
  
• Environmental protection
• It is a new market strategic value for business
• Life quality
• Well fair responsibility
• Globalization
• Market share
• Environmental certification
• ISO 14000 international standards in a waste
  products
• Stakeholders increasing value

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Challenges for companies

• Phase I Production process improvement
• Clean production
• Ecoeficienty
• Environmental Management (ISO 14001)
• Environmental audit (ISO 19011)
• Evaluation of environmental performance (ISO
  14031)

• Phase II Upgrading of products
• Life cycle analyze - LCA (Série ISO 14040)
• Ecodesign (ISO TR 14062)
• Environmental labeling Green labels Série
  ISO 14020

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Project tools

• Life cycle analyze
• Ecodesign

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Life cycle analyse

• The LCA is a technician to evaluate the
  environmental aspects and potential impacts of
  product as well
• This technician is kwon as born to barry too .

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Life Cycle Analysis
Source Haroldo Matos Lemos
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Life cycle phases
Greenhouse gases
Liquids emissions
Resources
Waste management
Secondary wastes
NOx SOx
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Desktop Energy supply
Fonte Accenture
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Ecodesign

• Integration possibilities in a environmental
  aspects
• a) Life cycle analyze (LCA)
• b) Simple quantitative by using environmental
  indicators
• c) Using of quality directives
• Using of less material
• Recycled Products (vehicles in Germany)
• Using of recycled materials (mainly now
  renewable)
• Energy use during the product life time
• Rise the product life time
• Services insted of products (wash machine X
  laundry facilities )
• Ask why and never accept it always work out as
  answer .

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Environmental impact study

• Project Evaluation impacts of environmental
  management a telecommunication study case
  CPqD
• Goals
• Identifying products with potential impacts and
  analyze the waste end
• Ranking of telco products with potential
  environmental impacts
• Analyzing trough out potential risks and waste
  end from Directive Methods and the diagram of
  interactions
• Evaluate the life cycle

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Estimative wasted products/materials per year
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CPqD Expertise Waste x Environmental Impacts

• Directive chromatic analyze applying
  identifications of impacts by products and
  filters of meaning . It was made by color
  functions evaluating the risk, probability of
  impact and its representatives is made with lines
  and columns per product

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Waste x Enviromental Impacts
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Matrix results

• TOP 6 environmental impacts
• Fiber optical Cables
• Public Telephony shelter
• Batteries
• Cell phone Batteries
• Lead splice (copper cables)
• Circuits switch center
• Huge impacts criteria
• Risk
• End waste
• During of wasting
• Production regularity
• Reversibility

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Waste conditions
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Waste conditions
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Project conclusions

• The companies should create conductions for a
  system of environmental management with rules for
  appropriates waste. It must be made in order to
  reduce of manufacturing , end use and waste
  impacts
• It is strongly recommended procedures and
  implementations ( by manufacturers side) combined
  with LCA studies and products ecodesign.

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Study CaseOptical Fiber Cable(CPqD)
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Applications of LCA in a fiber optical cable

• Goal analyzing of Environmental impacts when
  reducing, replacement and eliminated of same
  materials in optical fiber cables manufacturer
  are applied

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Final dispositions

• Using of LCA to compare and constructed
  pre-ACTION and ACTION cable was made in
  conformity with ISSO 14000 standards .
• Sample 1 kilometers of optical cable with 144
  fibers.
• As quantitative environmental impact methodology
  was applied the o Ecoindicator 95, with standards
  international database (Idemat combined with
  Boustead and APME databases).

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Project details
New project
Original Project

• External sheath (thickness reduction)
• Dielectric traction element
• Polyester type
• Ripcord
• Loose tube
• Optical fiber
• Dielectric central element
• Filler rod
• Feeling compound

• External sheath
• APL tape
• Polyester tape
• Ripcord
• Loose Tube
• Optical fibers
• Metallic Traction elements
• Filler rod
• Feeling compound

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Projects results

• The thickness reduction was a suitable solution.
  Keeping the same dimensions and the same fibers
  capacity the result was environmental benefits.
• There was a reduction around 40-50 of total mass
  by length of cable when compare with regular
  solution.
• It means a 40 reduction in PE sheath material,
  50 of less tube material, 80 less copper, 100
  of APL glue type and 100 of steel reduction
  (when replaced by GRP).
• There was around 40-50 reduction in wheel wood
  packing .
• On the other hand, the new material used as
  central element generate a negative
  environmental impact a bigger potential
  pesticides effect.

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Conclusions

• By analyzing the diagram is possible find out
  which aspects were changed and which of these
  generated better results
• Greenhouse gas no APL sheath , new tube material
  , copper reduction
• Ozone level reducing of sheath material
• Acidification no APL sheath , copper
  reduction
• Eutrofication sheath thickness reduction, tube
  material, no APL
• Heavy metals central element (steel replaced by
  GRP)
• Cancerous substance central element (steel
  replaced by GRP)
• Winter Smog copper reduction , no APL
• Summer Smog tube material , sheath thickness
  reduction, no APL
• Pesticides polyester (in the ACTION project
  moisture water penetration)
• Energy without APL, sheath thickness reduction,
  tube material
• Solids copper reduction.
• It is possible by LCA to show the benefits of new
  cable ACTION , not only restricted by economic
  aspects but the reduction of natural resources
  using as well.

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Thank You!
Julio César Fonseca julioc_at_anatel.gov.br (61)
2312-2421