From: Karsten Schischke 
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 1:22 AM
To: lcm@lcacenter.org
Subject: LCM - LCM of Solid Waste RESPOND TO THIS MESSAGE WITH ---REPLY
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Dear Keith,
great presentation, I guess it's a good basis for environmentally sound
waste management.
But on the other hand I would like to know a bit more in detail your
references for LCI modelling especially of landfills: Nearly all
examples you give result in a zero-leaching of heavy metalls from
landfills. Data I have got from German landfills show a wide range of
heavy metal leaching (see slide 18 of my parallel presentation: "LCA for
Environmental Management and Eco-design in the Electronics Industry
..."). Background for my interest in LCI data for waste management
technologies is my work for the electronics sector: If there would be no
e.g. lead leaching from landfills why bother about lead free
electronics, why establishing a recycling directive for electronics
scrap in Europe etc.? There are a couple of people lobbying against the
"lead free" topic with such arguments - unfortunately as far as I know
there is no input-output model for landfills which show what happens
with electronics scrap. That's why I would like to hear more about your
LCI model and the background data you refer to.
Best regards
Karsten Schischke

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Karsten Schischke
Dept. Environmental Engineering
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13355 Berlin
Germany
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