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Facility ID: 05301FLFLXPUTNE

Facility Name and Address:
 GARWARE FULFLEX USA INC.
32 JUSTIN HOLDEN DR
BRATTLEBORO, VT 05301

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Industry: Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing (325212)
Chemical: Lead compounds

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Pollution Prevention Activities for Selected Chemical

Reporting Year Section 8.10: Newly Implemented Source Reduction Activity Section 8.10: Methods to Identify Activity Section 8.11: Optional Pollution Prevention Information*
2024 Barriers: B3-Barriers to P2 B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction.

Barriers to P2: B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction. - The vast majority of the lead reported this year is from 2 different products, where our customer requires us to use lead for quality purposes. These 2 products have seen a massive spike this past year in terms of orders.
2023 Barriers: B3-Barriers to P2 B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction.

Barriers to P2: B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction. - Some of our customers require us to use lead compounds in their product for quality purposes. Our lead levels are dependent on how much product these customers order, which can vary.
2022
Source Reduction: Source Reduction - We work with our custom mix customers to reduce the use of toxic chemicals where possible
2021 Source Reduction:: S21: Optimized process conditions to increase efficiency
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T05: Employee recommendation (independent of a formal company program)
S21: Improved housekeeping and reduced spillage
2020 Source Reduction:: W19: Other changes in operating practices
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
W19: Improved weigh hopper maintenance
2019 Other Environmental Practices - every effort is made to sell our scrap material for reuse. However, fluctuating market pricing impacts that ability. only 2.2% of scrap produced was able to be sold.
2018 Barriers: B7-No Information B7 - No known substitutes or alternative technologies.

Other Environmental Practices: Recycling - Market pricing impacts the ability to resell material for recycling. For 2018, only 2.5% of our scrap produced was able to be sold
2017
Source Reduction: Source Reduction - no substitute as a process ingredient

Other Environmental Practices: Recycling - market pricing impacts the ability to resell material for recycling. 19% of our 2017 scrap produced was sold to be re-purposed into recycled product.
2016 Barriers: B7-Barriers to P2 B7 - No known substitutes or alternative technologies.

Barriers to P2: B7 - No known substitutes or alternative technologies. - no substitute as a process incredient

Other Environmental Practices: Recycling - low market pricing continued to adversely impact the ability to resell material for recycling vs. disposal
2015 Barriers: B7-Barriers to P2 B7 - No known substitutes or alternative technologies.
Other Barriers to Source Reduction - low market pricing restricted opportunities for resale of process scrap


Source Reduction: Source Reduction - although total process scrap was reduced in 2015, market pricing adversely impacted the resale of waste scrap vs. disposal

Barriers to P2: B7 - No known substitutes or alternative technologies. - no substitute as a process ingredient
2014 Source Reduction:: W19: Other changes in operating practices[-5-14%]

Source Reduction:: W29: Other changes in inventory control

Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other

Source Reduction: Source Reduction - heightened QC to reduce waste

Other Environmental Practices: Recycling - selling scrap to be re purposed, reducing disposal
2013 Source Reduction:: W19: Other changes in operating practices

Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
Source Reduction - Company objective to reduce % scrap; Reduction in process waste to landfill thru partnering w/ customer(s) for repurposing into new products
2012 Source Reduction:: W19: Other changes in operating practices
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
2011 Source Reduction - Began production of a new formula that required lead compounds
*Classifications of Optional Pollution Prevention Information shown in brackets are provided by EPA.