TRI Pollution Prevention Report for ALPHA ASSEMBLY SOLUTIONS and Copper compounds

Facility ID: 16602FDRTD6THAV

Facility Name and Address:
ALPHA ASSEMBLY SOLUTIONS
4100 6TH AVE
ALTOONA, PA 16602

Parent Company: ELEMENT SOLUTIONS INC

Industry: Secondary Smelting, Refining, and Alloying of Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum) (331492)
Chemical: Copper compounds

Production Related Waste Management for Selected Chemical


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    Waste Management Comparison - 2020



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*
2017 Other Barriers to Source Reduction - We make solder products, recycle metal, etc.

2016 Other Environmental Practices - We make solder products, recycle metal, etc.
2015 Barriers: B6-No Information B6 - Pollution prevention previously implemented - additional reduction does not appear technically or economically feas
Other Barriers to Source Reduction - We make solder products, recycle metal, etc.

2014 Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T06: Employee recommendation (under a formal company program)
2013 Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T06: Employee recommendation (under a formal company program)
2012 Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T06: Employee recommendation (under a formal company program)
2011 Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T06: Employee recommendation (under a formal company program)
W13: Improved housekeeping and reclamation of floor sweepings.Improved fllter bag changing in our baghouse even though releases (fugitive, etc.) were not significant.

Source Reduction - Copper is used in some alloys for manufacturing our solder products.
1995 Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T05: Employee recommendation (independent of a formal company program)
1994 Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures
Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T05: Employee recommendation (independent of a formal company program)
*Classifications of Optional Pollution Prevention Information shown in brackets are provided by EPA.


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.
  • Source Reduction includes activities that eliminate or reduce the generation of chemical waste.
  • Recycling includes the recovery of a toxic chemical in waste for reuse.
  • Energy Recovery includes the combustion of toxic chemicals in waste to generate heat or electricity.
  • Treatment includes the destruction of a toxic chemical in waste.
  • Disposal or Other Releases includes toxic chemical quantities entering the environment.
The PPA requires facilities to provide the following details about each chemical they report to TRI:
Facilities may also provide optional Pollution Prevention Information describing their source reduction, recycling, or pollution control activities.