The first report from a project to create scientifically based environmetal risk assessment tools was just published. The goal of the project is to create an easy to use tool for risk assessment when you apply for a registration to use recycled materias with slighty higher pollution levels (ringa risk according to the Swedish regulation). Today, each local municipally have the ability create their own local risk assessment models which is highly detrimental for the use of recycled material in Sweden.
The project was financed by SBUF and more about the project can be found on their website. The report can be downloaded here. The report is written in Swedish.
Other similar reports in Sweden includes a risk assessment model for soil material from road ditches from Trafikverket (the Swedish Transportation Agency) and a similar report about bottom ash recycling in road construction from Avfall Sverige (the municpal waste management and heating companies).
The next step in the project to create a scientific risk assessment tool is to gather knowledge about the correlation between total content and leaching values for different materials. If suceessful we will be able to approximate the envrionmental risk for certain materials based only on total content levels.
Do you have any input and suggestions for the upcoming new projects?
