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Designing print products for the future Creating competitive advantages by defining a new level of quality An EPEA Initiative Supported by the DOEN Foundation Katja Hansen, München, 13.2.2019 2 The paper market (Global) More than 400 million tons of paper products are produced each year, and about 77 million tons are shipped to Europe. Production volume of paper and cardboard worldwide 2006 to 2016 Value of annually wasted paper products in USDollar Every year printed products such as boxes and paper worth about $ 16.2 billion are thrown away and cannot be reused. Sources: GeneraCycle, “What we throw away every year” (2017) / Statista / FAO (2017): Statistics pulp and paper industry

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Designing print products for the future

Creating competitive advantages 

by defining a new level of quality

An EPEA Initiative Supported by the DOEN Foundation

Katja Hansen, München, 13.2.2019

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The paper market (Global)

• More than 400 million tons of paper products are produced each year, and about 77 million tons are shipped to Europe.

Production volume of paper and cardboard worldwide 2006 to 2016

Value of annually wasted paper products in US‐Dollar

• Every year printed products such as boxes and paper worth about $ 16.2 billion are thrown away and cannot be reused.

Sources: GeneraCycle, “What we throw away every year” (2017) / Statista / FAO (2017): Statistics pulp and paper industry 

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Total volume increasing

The market is growing 

worldwide by approx. 1 % 

annually.

• More packaging 

because of online 

shopping

• Alternative to plastic

• Demand from growing 

economies

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• After the ban on importing mixed waste including unsorted paper waste, China signed a memorandum of agreement with the EU on circular economy.

• The EU has been amending an existing piece of legislation – the EU waste framework directive – to restrict use of potentially harmful substances in recycled materials.

• Ink producers can expect new restrictions on packaging ink chemicals.

• Healthy Printing is a practical enabler for the China‐EU agreement and a practical solution to recycled paper being contaminated! 

Upcoming regulations

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1. Contamination of recycled paper

Challenges in the paper sector

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2. Migration of harmful substances

Challenges in the paper sector (2)

Sources: Foodwatch (2015): Mineralöle in Lebensmitteln: Ergebnisse des foodwatch‐Tests. / Verband European Bioplastics (2000): EN 13432 – Nachweis Kompostierbarkeit 

3. Focus on increasing efficiency and compliance with thresholds

4. Limited use of “deinking” sludge 5. Lack of effective recycling methods

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Producer are looking for clean recycling 

paper

Amounts are limted

Demand exceeding supply

Market demand for clean recycling paper

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Defining a new level of quality: paper cascade

Source: NL Agency, Position paper – Usability of Life Cycle Assessment for Cradle to Cradle purposes (2011)

Paper fibres are re‐usable many times 

in a cascade. 

New products from used fibre are 

coming to markets, e.g. 

www.reffibre.eu. 

Healthy printing makes those products 

more economical by reducing 

contaminants and improving fibre 

quality.

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Recycling starts with waste

Heritage of the past

Upcycling starts with designing all materials as resources

Clean resources for the future

Design for Upcycling 

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Products are safe for high‐quality recycling or use in the biological 

cycle.

Sludge that inevitably occurs in recycling can be a safe resource for 

other uses.

Standards for water quality and wastewater treatment in recycling 

can be improved.

Products surpass legal requirements and are safe as measured by the 

highest standards for use and reuse.

Products are safe and healthy for humans, use with food products, 

and air, water or soil.

Defining a new level of quality: Healthy Printing 

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Value is there!

Resource creation:Healthy ingredients transform recycling sludge into resources, to burn safely or use in other processes

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Incineration with energy recovery

• Low caloric value due to high water content

• Possible dioxine formation 

Reuse of ashes for various purposes (caustic soda substitute, lime substitute, soil 

stabilization, road construction, sludge conditioning, additive to cement, additive to mixed 

binder)

• Content of toxic heavy elements (e.g. Cd, As, Cr, Ni).

HPI targets beneficial re‐use of ashes as nutrients in soil since wood and pulp ashes contain most of the major mineral plant nutrients (except N) & are acid‐neutralizing.

Sludge ‐ incineration

Image credit: "SMax screenings," © 2011 CDEGlobal, used under an Attribution‐ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by‐sa/2.0/

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Spreading on land

• Neutralizing acidic soils (UK, northern Europe)

• Prohibit in many countries due to contamination

Reuse as building material, e.g. in bricks

• Beneficial properties for bricks re porosity, lightweighting etc

• Replacing other natural resources such as clay, wood dust

• Energy saving for firing bricks 

Sludge – other current uses 

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For example,

Pyrolysis ‐mixture of gaseous & liquid fuels plus solid inert residue

Gasification 

Anaerobic digestion

Supercritical water oxidation – salts, fillers for reuse

Reuse of fibre in cardboard production

Sludge – potential new uses 

Healthy printed products increase value creation 

by improving reuse potential for paper byproducts 

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Recent example of success 

Made possible through supply chain cooperation with hubergroup(inks) and Töpfer (labels), and scientific consultation with EPEA

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Another successful partnership

• printed on paper made from agricultural waste (leaves and stems) by PaperWise

• with Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Gold offset inks by Green4Print

• Produced with IPA (solvent) free print process by Ecodrukkers. 

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Book presented @ World Economic Forum, Davos 2018.

Image from www.duurzaam‐ondernemen.nl

40+ members

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Healthy printing improvements vary between products and regions, so it makes sense to share and scale up best practices. 

Healthy Printing Charter is designed to do that by supporting knowledge transfer and scale up of methods for printing that are healthy for people, the economy and the environment. 

We invite your company to join the Healthy Printing movement by signing the Charter (DE/EN/NL) as well, whether you are a manufacturerer of inks, papers, additives, a printer, distributor, an NGO, or even a user of printed products.

http://www.healthyprinting.eu/charter/

Join us!

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Download:http://www.healthyprinting.eu/epea‐and‐baum‐healthy‐printing‐report/

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healthy printing:

EPEA GmbH ‐ Part of Drees & SommerHamburg ‐ Germany

www.epea.com

EPEA NederlandEindhoven‐ The Netherlands

www.epea.nl

contact person:Katja Hansen

[email protected]+49‐176‐5970 4341

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Contact us!