Enperas’s LCA Specialist participated in the webinar organized by the German IBU EPD Program

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Enperas’s LCA Specialist – Suren Rangaraju participated in the webinar organized by IBU.

📃 During the webinar many updates were covered by the organizers. In particular, changes were made in 𝐈𝐁𝐔 - 𝐀 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐂𝐑 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐀 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭!

Enperas's LCA Specialist - Suren Rangaraju participated in the Webinar organized by IBU.

1. IBU - Updates from a new version of the PCR part A rule:

- How Biogas usage and green electricity should be calculated.
- Clearer guidelines for Biogenic Carbon - How CO2 emissions released in EoL and Module D shall be accounted and declared.
- Clarifying distinction between secondary fuels (renewable/non-renewable) and secondary materials.

2. IBU - Updates from a new version of the PCR part A rule:
- Elaboration of different cases of modelling and declaring energetic processing of waste:
- Thermal waste processing.
- Energy recovery from waste.
- Energy use as a secondary fuel.

3. IBU - Updates from a new version of the PCR part A rule:
- How residual mix should be used (unless there is a justification).
- Global Warming Potential (GWP) should be provided for the electricity mix balanced.
- Guidelines for the guarantee of Origin (GO) of electricity.
- When and how to calculate and use EU mix and regional mix.

4. IBU - Updates from a new version of the PCR part A rule:
- In case of packaging is declared in A3 how Module A5 shall be included.
- If A5 is not declared, the analysed packaging impact shall be quantified and given as technical scenario information.
- How biogenic carbon in packaging materials should be assessed.

5. IBU - Updates from a new version of the PCR part A rule:
- Attempts to give more guidelines on how to decide on allocation and cut-off in waste processing.
- More explanation on the scenarios modelling for basic and complex products. Elaboration in Module D on the net flows calculation.
- IBU stance on the mass balance approach. Guidelines for the data quality assessment for primary and generic data. Rules for reusable products.

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