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Environmental
Product
Declaration
2.4 Cut-off and allocation principles
The processes contributing for less than 1% of the total environmental impact for each impact
category have been omitted from the inventory. Where possible, the allocation is avoided or it
follows a procedure based on the mass balance of the output products (see Table 1).
2.5 Data Quality
Data refer to the year 2010 and were collected in Freudenberg Politex plant located in Colmar
(France) and Pisticci (Italy). The study was also based on the data from SimaPro ver. 7.2.3:
Ecoinvent 2.2.
The contribution of the other generic data to each impact category is below 10%.
Data concerning energy aspects refers to the energy mix of the French site in Colmar and the
production process for the electrical energy from palm oil in Pisticci.
The data collection was conducted in compliance with the two modalities contained in the ISO
14044:2006.
2.6 Environmental profile of the product
To have univocal environmental information and in order to support decisions about the use of
eco-sustainable materials, the impact categories have been analyzed in line with what
requested by the indications of the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) and referred to
the production process illustrated in Figure 1. For the production of 1 kg Terbond ® the inflow
material (mainly PET bottles post-consumer) in the system goes through the bottles recycling
plant and the spun production department. Table 1 shows the environmental performance
relevant to the production of Terbond ® product family divided into information about natural
resources consumed (energetic and non).
Energy resources (used for energy
conversion purposes)
Material resources
Resources consumption
Renewable
Nonrenewable
Upstream Processes Core Processes Terbond
1 kg 1 kg
® TOTAL
1 kg
A TH R A TH R A TH R
Biomass g 38,33 18,05 19,42 183,13 621,31 9,36 10,51 1965,87 659,64 27,41 29,92 2149,00
Biomass MJ 0,65 0,31 0,37 3,11 10,53 0,16 0,14 33,31 11,18 0,46 0,51 36,42
Hydroelectric MJ 0,18 0,50 0,58 0,18 0,47 1,30 1,16 0,24 0,66 1,80 1,73 0,42
Wind MJ 0,01 0,06 0,07 0,02 0,01 0,02 0,02 0,01 0,02 0,08 0,09 0,03
Solar MJ 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00
Total MJ 0,84 0,87 1,01 3,31 11,01 1,48 1,31 33,56 11,86 2,35 2,33 36,87
Coal g 75,40 277,43 326,41 100,39 40,99 85,17 76,00 42,21 116,39 362,60 402,40 142,60
Oil g 105,43 138,16 156,03 107,53 47,43 14,42 18,14 130,49 152,86 152,58 174,16 238,02
Uranium g 0,00 0,01 21,59 0,00 0,02 0,06 0,05 0,00 0,02 0,06 21,64 0,01
Gas g 124,31 120,16 164,43 195,22 36,31 20,30 15,90 208,20 160,61 140,46 180,33 403,42
Total g 305,14 535,77 668,46 403,14 124,75 119,95 110,08 380,90 429,89 655,71 778,54 784,04
Coal MJ 1,13 3,99 4,71 1,45 0,70 1,59 1,42 0,60 1,83 5,58 6,14 2,05
Oil MJ 8,92 19,97 21,87 8,64 1,04 0,66 0,83 2,26 9,96 20,64 22,70 10,90
Uranium MJ 2,68 5,14 5,52 1,59 9,85 31,02 27,61 1,33 12,53 36,17 33,13 2,92
Gas MJ 12,82 17,13 20,39 15,88 5,16 1,10 0,86 5,60 17,99 18,23 21,25 21,48
Total MJ 25,55 46,24 52,50 27,56 16,76 34,37 30,72 9,79 42,31 80,61 83,22 37,35
thereof electricity consumption kWh - - - - 0,99 2,19 1,90 2,30 0,99 2,19 1,90 2,30
PET waste g 762,69 412,83 366,96 785,29 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 762,69 412,83 366,96 785,29
Renewable Other waste g 400,00 200,00 100,00 300,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 400,00 200,00 100,00 300,00
Total g 1162,69 612,83 466,96 1085,29 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 1162,69 612,83 466,96 1085,29
Gravel g 32,38 138,99 160,75 76,83 35,64 24,62 22,02 112,46 68,02 163,61 182,77 189,30
Clay g 4,61 28,21 31,54 30,78 1,50 1,40 1,25 4,09 6,11 29,61 32,79 34,87
Nonrenewable
Calcite
Iron
Oil
g
g
g
15,99
2,10
89,76
24,37
8,95
297,97
23,96
10,37
321,49
37,43
3,89
77,62
6,12
4,79
0,00
4,20
2,02
0,00
3,77
1,82
0,00
9,25
10,13
0,00
22,11
6,89
89,76
28,57
10,97
297,97
27,72
12,19
321,49
46,68
14,02
77,62
Natural gas g 116,57 201,12 217,86 100,80 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 116,57 201,12 217,86 100,80
Total g 261,42 699,60 765,96 327,35 48,05 32,24 28,86 135,94 309,47 731,84 794,83 463,28
Water
kg 2,71 0,99 0,79 6,34 4,24 1,80 1,90 8,60 6,94 2,79 2,69 14,94
Table 1. Total consumption of resources associated to the production of Terbond ® products
Air and water emissions are presented in an aggregated way by providing the indicators
requested by the International EPD System.
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