TRI Pollution Prevention Report for EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES READING SMELTER DIV and Lead compounds

Facility ID: 19605GNRLBSPRIN

Facility Name and Address:
EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES READING SMELTER DIV
SPRING VALLEY RD & NOLAN ST
READING, PA 19605

Parent Company: EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES

Industry: All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing (326199)
Chemical: Lead compounds

Production Related Waste Management for Selected Chemical

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Waste Management Comparison - 2016

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*
2019	Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management	W13: Improved waste water procedures Source Reduction - Management Meetings between management and operators identified process parameters that needed to be better controlled.
2018	Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management	W13: Improved waste water procedures Source Reduction - Meetings between management and operators identified process parameters that needed to be better controlled.
2017			Other Barriers to Source Reduction - Lead is a contaminant of plastics recycling activities conducted on-site. Other Environmental Practices: General Environmental Management - The company idled secondary lead smelting operations at this site in 2013. There were no lead recyclingoperations conducted in 2014, 2015, 2016 or 2017. Remediation and RCRA closure commenced in 2017.
2016			Other Barriers to Source Reduction - Lead is a contaminant of plastics recycling activities conducted on-site. Other Environmental Practices: General Environmental Management - The company idled secondary lead smelting operations at this site in 2013. There were no lead recycling operations conducted in 2014, 2015, 2016 or 2017. Remediation and RCRA closure commenced in 2017.
2015			Other Barriers to Source Reduction - Lead is a contaminant to the site. Source reduction activities are not applicable.
2013	Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
2012	Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
2011	Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other	Other Environmental Practices - Upgraded filter clothes in baghouses for more effiecient dust removal.
2010	Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other	Other Environmental Practices - Upgraded filter clothes for the facility's process #1 and ventilation #2 baghouses with higher efficiency clothes.
2009	Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
2009			Other Environmental Practices - This facility of Distribution and Formation ceased operations as of June 7, 2010. The recycling division is still active and does their own Form R. We submit one for Jan - Jun, 2010 next year.
2008	Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)	Other Environmental Practices - As part of our ISO 14001 management programs, Exide has focused attention on maintaining programs which increase efficiency of our baghouse filter clothes, limiting the amount of metals which pass through our baghouses and into our scrubbing systems and resulting emission control sludge, which is disposed of in landfills.
2007	Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
2005	Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T05: Employee recommendation (independent of a formal company program) Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)	Source Reduction - The Smelter Operates 4 furnaces which emit metals and sulfur dioxide. Gases are cooled in a series of tubes. Then fabric filter baghouses are used to control metals particulate. Wet Scrubbers are then used to control sulfur dioxide (SO2). Emission Control Sludge (ECS) is generated from the scrubbing of SO2 with lime (CAOH) slurry, resulting in a gypsum (CASO4) sludge with some metals. We replaced all the filter bags in our baghouses cell by cell with a new bag design which has three rings throughout the length of the bags. The rings prevent the bags from collapsing, thereby reducing the chances of clogging and eventually tearring. This has led to increased baghouse efficiencies and a reduction of lead escaping the baghouses into the scrubbing system and being sent offsite in our ECS wastestream from 338,698 lbs in 2004 to 30,655 lbs. in 2005. This change also reduced all other metals, associated with our process, in the ECS.
2000	Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance
1999	Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance
1998	Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance
1998	Source Reduction:: W19: Other changes in operating practices Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
1997	Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures Source Reduction:: W41: Increased purity or raw materials Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
1997	Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance
1996	Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures Source Reduction:: W41: Increased purity or raw materials Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
1996	Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance
1995	Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance
1995	Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
1994	Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
1994	Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
1993	Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
1993	Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s)
1992	Source Reduction:: W13: Improved maintenance scheduling, recordkeeping, or procedures Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T01: Internal pollution prevention opportunity audit(s) Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance
1992	Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other

*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:

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")

Facilities may also provide optional Pollution Prevention Information describing their source reduction, recycling, or pollution control activities.