b'Environmental Product Declaration | Resene Summit Roof Technical informationFigure 2. Product life cycle and EPD modulesA1 A2 A3 A4 A5 B1-B7 C1-C4 DRaw materials Transport Manufacturing Distribution Application In use End of life Reuse, recovery, and recyclingA1)Raw material supply A4)Distribution to customer C1)Deconstruction, demolitionExtraction and processing of raw materials. Truck transport to retailer / wholesaler. Deconstruction of the building materials the paint is applied to. The mass of the dry Generation of electricity, steam and heat from primary energy resources,paint is used to calculate the proportion of environmental impacts associated with also including their extraction, refining and transport. This includes energyA5)Application, assuming roller application the deconstruction/demolition of the building, following an attributional approach. neededforrawmaterialsupplyandenergyformanufacturingincorePaint application using a roller (typical for commercial painting).process.Water for washing roller and tray. C2)Transport to end-of-life processingProduction of tin-plated steel (tinplate) and HDPE pails for packaging. Wastewater treatment for water and paint residue. Transport of dry paint residue to landfill.Emissions of water vapour and VOCs to air during paint drying. It is assumedC3)Waste processingA2)Transport that all volatile components evaporate in module A5.External transport of the raw material and packaging to the manufacturingWaste treatment for packaging, including transport to end-of-life. LandfillAs all paint waste (paint that cannot be recovered at PaintWise) goes straight to sites. is included within the system boundary. Recycled steel packaging is assumedlandfill at end-of-life, there is no processing involved. Therefore, waste processing Internal transport between process steps. to reach its end-of-waste state after transport to the recycler. Due to its lowimpacts have been modelled as zero for this EPD.value, HDPE packaging which is sent to recycling is assumed to reach itsC4)DisposalA3)Manufacturing end-of-wastestateafterithasbeenrecycledintorecycledHDPE(after Weighing of ingredients, mixing and packaging. grinding, washing, granulation and pelletising). Unusable / unrecoverableLandfill of dry paint residue. While the paint will almost certainly still be attached to Treatment of waste generated from the manufacturing processes up to thepaint left in the pail is assumed to be landfilled in most cases.the surface onto which it was applied, the environmental burdens associated with this end-of-waste state.Production of roller and tray are not included, as it is assumed that thesesurface are excluded and should instead be counted within the system boundary for For all solid and liquid waste that is disposed of, transport and municipalare reused many times before their eventual disposal. Their impacts wouldthat product in line with the attributional approach applied in this study.landfill is included.therefore be negligible. D)Benefits and loads beyond the system boundary (next product life For all waste sent for recycling, transport to the recycler is included, butcycle)Recycling potentialnot any of the recycling operations beyond this.Benefits and loads from the avoided production of steel or HDPE (depending on the No credits are awarded for scrap leaving the system boundary in moduleproducts packaging type) from the fraction of packaging sent for recycling from A; all benefits and loads are cut off after the transport step. module A5. Only net scrap is sent to module D. More specifically, scrap generated in module A5 is first looped back to satisfy any open scrap inputs in modules A1A3 and only the remainder is sent to module D.resene.com Return to contents|10'