TRI Pollution Prevention Report for VESUVIUS USA-CONNEAUT PLANT and Lithium carbonate

Facility ID: 44030XMTNC1100M

Facility Name and Address:
VESUVIUS USA-CONNEAUT PLANT
1100 MAPLE AVE
CONNEAUT, OH 44030

Parent Company: VESUVIUS USA CORP

Industry: Clay Building Material and Refractories Manufacturing (327120)
Chemical: Lithium carbonate

Production Related Waste Management for Selected Chemical

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Waste Management Comparison - 2019

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*
2022	Source Reduction:: S03: Substituted raw materials, feedstock, or reactant chemical[-15-24%]	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
2021	Source Reduction:: S03: Substituted raw materials, feedstock, or reactant chemical[-5-14%]	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other	S03: Changed raw material usage away from LiCO3
2020	Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications[-15-24%]	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T03: Materials balance audits	W58: Granular bagger reclaim system installed in late 2019 is estimated to have kept 119,000 total pounds of material out of the landfill in 2020. This would equate to approx. 290 pounds of lithium carbonate kept from the landfill, if proportional to the percentage of raw materials used that is lithium carbonate.
2019	Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T03: Materials balance audits	W58: Added a reclaim system to the granular bagger to reduce process loss of materials.
2012	Source Reduction:: W21: Instituted procedures to ensure that materials do not stay in inventory beyond Source Reduction:: W51: Instituted recirculation within a process Source Reduction:: W55: Changed from small volume containers to bulk containers to minimize discarding	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management

*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.