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Title: Product Stewardship


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Product Stewardship
  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
  • June 25, 2003

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Todays Agenda
  • Product Stewardship Overview
  • Radioactive Materials Project
  • Potential Solutions, Challenges
  • Other Product Stewardship Efforts
  • Questions, Answers, Discussion

Scott Cassel
Greg Morose
Tom Balf
Scott Cassel
All
3
What Is Product Stewardship?
  • Product-based approach to environmental
    protection
  • Goal reduce the health and environmental impacts
    throughout life of products
  • Often involves partnerships

4
Examples of Product Stewardship
  • Product take-back program or recycling system
  • Design for environment
  • Consumes less energy
  • Uses less material
  • More recyclable material
  • Recycled content
  • Substituting toxic materials with non-toxic
    materials
  • Environmentally preferable procurement

5
Product Life Cycle Approach
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Why Product Stewardship?
  • Paradigm shift in waste management
  • Address industry unfunded mandate
  • Solve local collection program dilemma
  • Sustainable financing system
  • Shift Costs from Taxpayers to Consumers
  • Shift Costs from Back-end to Front-end (Purchase
    Price)
  • Product design changes

7
Product Stewardship Institute
  • Founded in December 2000
  • Based at the University of Massachusetts/Lowell
  • Coalition/Affiliate Members
  • Agency leaders pledge to work with PSI on product
    stewardship issues
  • 26 State members
  • 23 Local agency members

8
Product Stewardship Institute
  • Mission
  • To assist state and local government agencies in
    establishing cooperative agreements with industry
    and developing other initiatives that reduce the
    health and environmental impacts from consumer
    products.

9
PSI Current Projects
  • Electronics (computers, TVs)
  • National Electronics Product Stewardship
    Initiative
  • Model State Electronics Legislation
  • Government Procurement Officials Guide to
    Purchasing Environmentally Preferable Computers
  • Pilot Computer Take Back with Major Retailer
  • Paint
  • National Paint Product Stewardship Initiative
  • Benjamin Moore Pilot Take Back

10
PSI Current Projects
  • Pressurized Gas Cylinders (Dialogues)
  • Refillable Propane Tanks
  • Non-refillable Small Gas cylinders
  • Radioactive Materials Product Stewardship Project
  • Mercury (thermostats)
  • Tires

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Other Product Stewardship Initiatives in the U.S.
  • Beverage containers
  • Mercury products
  • Rechargeable Batteries
  • Used Oil
  • Auto batteries
  • Carpet

12
PSI Product Stewardship Principles
  • Shared Responsibility
  • Internalize Costs
  • Incentives for Cleaner Products
  • Flexible Management Strategies
  • Clear Roles and Responsibilities

13
Product Stewardship A New Waste Management
Paradigm
VOLUNTARY
MANDATORY
NEGOTIATED
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Radioactive Materials Project
Goals Undertake a product stewardship approach
to reduce the health and environmental impacts
associated with nuclear fixed gauges and tritium
exit signs. Provide a framework for future
efforts to manage other devices containing
radioactive materials. Funding
  • EPA Office of Radiation Indoor Air

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Project Phases
  • Phase 1 Outreach, Research (10/02 4/03)
  • Phase 2 Convene Dialogue (5/03 4/04)
  • Phase 3 Implementation (5/04 10/04)
  • Phase 4 Monitor Results (11/04 10/05)

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Products with Radioactive Materials
Specific License General License Exempt
Irradiators, portable gauges, teletherapy,
radiography, etc.
Fixed gauges, static eliminators, exit signs, in
vitro testing, etc.
Smoke detectors, self-luminous devices, radiation
instruments, etc.
17
Regulatory Requirements GL Devices
  • General Requirements
  • Labeling
  • Responsible Individual
  • Proper usage
  • Leak testing
  • Reporting
  • Lost, stolen, broken
  • Corporate change
  • Storage limitation (2 yrs)
  • Proper disposal
  • Shall not abandon
  • Annual Registration of Certain GL Devices
    containing greater than
  • 10 mCi of cesium-137
  • 0.1 mCi of strontium-90
  • 1 mCi of cobalt-60
  • 1 mCi of transuranics (americium-241)
  • Annual fee

18
Product Life Cycle
19
Key Stakeholders
  • Government EPA, State Radiation Programs, etc.
  • Professional Organizations CRCPD, NCRP, etc.
  • Industry associations ISRI, SRI, NADC, etc.
  • Disposal facilities Barnwell S.C., Richland, WA
  • Manufacturers SRB, Isolite, Ohmart/Vega, etc.
  • Waste Broker Duratek

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Tritium Exit Signs
  • Operation Phosphorus in glass tubes is
    illuminated by tritium radiation, requires no
    electricity
  • Source activity Tritium is a low energy, beta
    emitter
  • Costs Approximately 125 - 350 per sign

21
Tritium Exit Signs - Market
  • Quantity Approximately 2 million installed in
    U.S.
  • Annual Sales 80,000 110,000 per year
  • Locations Hospitals, schools, factories, etc.
  • Advantages Low installation cost, low
    maintenance costs, reliability
  • Alternatives LED, photoluminescent,
    electroluminescent, incandescent, etc.

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Nuclear Fixed Gauges
  • Operation Used to monitor/measure density,
    thickness, and other parameters during
    manufacturing processes.
  • Source Various radiation sources such as
    Am-241, Cs-137, etc. (neutron, gamma, beta
    emitters).
  • Costs Approximately 3,000 - 8,000 per gauge
    (total systems may cost up to 1.5 million).

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Nuclear Fixed Gauges - Market
  • Annual Sales Approximately 1,500 7,000 GL
    devices per year
  • Applications Various manufacturing
    applications including materials processing,
    beverage, and paper
  • Advantages Proven technology, low maintenance,
    and high reliability
  • Alternatives Infrared, laser, ultrasonic,
    capacitance, and microwave

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End of Life Management
  • Manufacturer take-back/recycling Signs 0 to
    100, Gauges 0 to gt1,000
  • LLRW Disposal Facilities Barnwell, SC
    Richland, WA
  • CRCPD Orphan Program 8 states participating
  • Off-site Recovery Program DOE LANL
  • Lost, stolen, abandoned, solid waste stream,
    scrap metal

25
NMED Incidents
  • GL Nuclear Fixed Gauges
  • 278 reportable incidents
  • 53 equipment problems
  • 33 lost or stolen
  • Only 20 at GL Device Licensees
  • 3 radiation overexposures at GL Device Licensees
  • Maximum exposure was 32 rem to an extremity
  • Tritium Exit Signs
  • 83 reportable incidents
  • 53 lost or stolen
  • 15 broken or damaged capsule
  • 14 incidents in which exposures occurred
  • Maximum exposure was 286 mrem

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Issue Summary
  • Devices become unwanted, abandoned, lost, stolen,
    damaged, or improperly disposed
  • Environmental hazard
  • Human health risk
  • Costs to cleanup contamination (steel mill up to
    30 million)
  • Gauges are a potential source of radioactive
    material for dirty bombs

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Prioritization Matrix
1
2
3 - 4
2 - 3
3
2
1
2
1
1
1 - Minimal or no concern 2 - Some concern
3 - Moderate concern 4 - High concern
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Product Stewardship Examples
  • Manufacturer take-back responsibility
  • New NRC registration process responsibility
  • Orphan program responsibility, roles
    relationships
  • Iowa DPH responsibility, roles relationships,
    incentives, flexible management systems

29
Advancing Change
Where we want to be Identifying a shared need
and shaping a future vision
Where we are now PSI Research Report
Where they were
Where we were pre orphan program and NRC
Registration
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Future Vision
  • Accurate information (registration, sales,
    recycling rates)
  • Accountability for devices (existing, disused,
    and orphan)
  • Compliance with applicable standards and
    regulations
  • Proper incentives in place

31
Future Vision
  • Minimization of radioactive material use
  • Elimination of scrap metal contaminants
  • Proper education and information regarding
    management
  • Nationwide harmonization of standards and
    regulations

32
Product Stewardship Principles - Gaps
  • Incentives for manufacturing and sales of
    non-nuclear fixed gauges
  • Cost shifting from users to taxpayers and scrap
    industry
  • Education of demolition industry regarding
    radioactive device management

33
Challenges
  • No industry association to provide industry-wide
    data or to represent coordinate efforts of
    manufacturers/distributors
  • No threat of pending state or federal producer
    responsibility legislation to provide impetus for
    action
  • Attaining a sustainable financial model to
    implement and maintain solutions

34
Potential Solutions Initial Focus
  • Increase device recycling rates by enhancing
    existing manufacturer take back system
  • Increase radioactive material education for the
    demolition industry
  • Increase usage of non-nuclear alternatives

Gauges, Signs
Gauges, Signs
Gauges
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Next Steps
  • Leverage product stewardship models/solutions
    from other PSI initiatives
  • Tie in results from other EPA efforts
    (alternatives study, and cesium materials
    balance)
  • Conduct stakeholder survey
  • Design and implement the dialogue process
  • Develop and implement the stakeholder action plan

36
Other PS Projects Goal Similarities
  • Decrease the use of toxic/radioactive materials
    (e.g. alternative designs)
  • Increase collection and recycling rates
  • Increase the purchase of alternatives
  • Need for a sustainable financing mechanism

37
Other PS Projects Other Similarities
  • End of life management cost versus value
  • Steel industry involvement (steel housing
    enclosing toxic/radioactive material)
  • Closing the toxic/radioactive materials loop
  • Design dialogue process to meet specific needs of
    the project

38
Other PS Projects Differences
  • Consumer versus industrial focused (major retail
    entities as stakeholders)
  • More state/local agency focused with less federal
    agency involvement
  • No terrorism/security issues present

39
Other PS Projects - Differences
  • Existing industry associations as stakeholders to
    provide critical project assistance
  • NGO and pending state legislation drivers
    (electronics project)
  • PSI represents governments for NEPSI process, PSI
    developing dialogue forum for radioactive
    materials/other products

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Contact Information
  • Product Stewardship Institute
  • University of Massachusetts/Lowell
  • Tel (978) 934-4861
  • www.ProductStewardship.us
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