Production Related Waste Management for Selected Chemical
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Waste Management Comparison - 2014
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* |
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| 2022 |
Source Reduction:: S41: Improved scheduling, record keeping, or procedures for operations, cleaning, and maintenance[-5-14%]
Source Reduction:: S42: Changed production schedule to minimize equipment and material changeovers[-5-14%] Source Reduction:: S43: Introduced in-line product quality monitoring or other process analysis system[-5-14%] |
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T09: Trade association/industry technical assistance program |
S41: Implementing braiding Preventative Maintenance activities to maintain equipment and reduce scrap and changeovers. S42: Worked with scheduling to line up similar jobs and reduce changeovers. S43: Added laser gauges to production line to keep consistent diameters and reduce off-spec and scrap. Source Reduction - Sikora - trade show assistance Source Reduction - Worked with Wardwell Braid Manufacturing |
| 2021 |
Source Reduction:: S25: Other process modifications made[-0-4%]
Source Reduction:: S33: Improved containment or material handling operations[-0-4%] |
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) |
S25: All excess process water from extrusion troughs was transferred to the evaporator tank. S33: Additional measures were put into place to further eliminate potential for storm water discharge. |
| 2020 |
Source Reduction: Source Reduction - The Management Team has made concerted effort to increase efficiency and oversight of quality control processes; therefore, the Facility continues to decrease the quantity of non-conforming material and the amount of copper sent for recycling. Other Environmental Practices: General Environmental Management - Management recycled material deemed no longer usable, damaged or non-conforming based upon inventory reviews and quality control. |
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| 2019 |
Source Reduction:: W19: Other changes in operating practices
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Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
Barriers: B3-Barriers to P2 B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction. |
W19: Enhanced quality control measures (i.e. calibration tools on equipment and quality testing at each step in production) identify "non-conforming matierial" earlier in the production process. This allows product to be reworked as opposed to scrapped for recycling. Source Reduction - The Management Team has made a concerted effort to increase efficiency and oversight in quality control processes. Barriers to P2: B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction. - Due to quality control, product that is found to be "non-conforming" and cannot be reworked, must be scrapped and sent for recycling. |
| 2018 |
Source Reduction:: W19: Other changes in operating practices[-25-49%]
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Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
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W19: Through quality control processes, the Facility has decreased the quantity of "non-conforming material" and therefore the amount of copper sent for recycling. Source Reduction - The Management Team has made a concerted effort to increase efficiency and oversight in quality control processes. |
| 2017 |
Other Environmental Practices: General Environmental Management - Management recycles material deemed no longer usable, damaged or old stock no longer used based on inventory reviews and forecasted orders. Any items recyclable are recycled via our recycler or single stream recycling. The inventory in 2017 generated an unplanned surplus of materials for recycle. |
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| 2016 |
Other Environmental Practices: General Environmental Management - Management has elected to remove from inventory old stock and short lengths of cable. This was done to open floor space to allow for new equipment to enhance production |
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| 2015 |
Source Reduction:: W81: Changed product specifications
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Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other |
Other Environmental Practices: Source Reduction - We are continuing to expand the use of foreign cable for specific operations. this allows us to minimize the waste generated in the initial manufacturing processes. Increased production ratio is attributable to increase in cable assembly operations. This also allow for higher usage of short lengths of cable previously sent for recycle. |
| 2014 |
Source Reduction:: W49: Other raw material modifications[-25-49%]
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Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
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Source Reduction - A quantity of raw cable is now made in China. Start-up and scrap associated with that portion of the product now occurs there. |
| 2012 |
Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
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Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other |
W13: We have maintained a stable workforce for the past 2-3 years. The operators are managing the product with less variation therefore reducing scrap Source Reduction - A team dedicated to highlighting short lengths for sale has increased their sales and redued associated scrap |
| 2010 | Other Environmental Practices - Increase in amount of copper recycled due to better accounting for scrap as sent out; change in vendor; new vendor better differentiates scrap. Additionally, review of obsolete material resulted in scraping of raw material. | ||
| 2009 |
Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications
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Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance |
Source Reduction - Installed system to measure concentricity of condutor core. reduced scrap. |
TRI Pollution Prevention Glossary
The Waste Management Hierarchy |
The waste management hierarchy established by the Pollution Prevention Act (PPA) guides waste generators toward the best options for managing wastes.
The preferred option is to prevent pollution at its source, but for waste that is generated, the preferred management methods are recycling, followed
by burning for energy recovery, treatment and, as a last resort, disposing of the waste.
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- A breakdown of production-related waste managed. This includes all amounts of the chemical released directly to the environment or otherwise managed as waste, other than waste generated by one-time events not associated with normal production processes (e.g., fires or remedial actions).
- A production ratio or activity index to provide context for reported toxic chemical quantities. For example, if a chemical is used in the manufacture of refrigerators, the production index would track the number of refrigerators produced and could be used to help gauge how much of the chemical is being released per unit of production.
- Any newly implemented source reduction activities, reported using "W-codes" (e.g., "W41: Increased purity of raw materials")