TRI Pollution Prevention Report for WINCOM INC and Sodium nitrite

Facility ID: 4524WWNCMN11444

Facility Name and Address:
WINCOM INC
11444 DEERFIELD RD
CINCINNATI, OH 45242

Parent Company:

Industry: All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing (325998)
Chemical: Sodium nitrite

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:: S25: Other process modifications made	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance Barriers: B3-Barriers to P2 B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction.	S25: Sodium nitrite is a raw material used to manufacture the technical grade product we receive. We are working with our contract manufacturers to optimize raw material ratios and reaction conditions to minimize the residual sodium nitrite in the technical grade product. Source Reduction - See S25 process modification. Barriers to P2: B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction. - Residual sodium nitrite is required to ensure complete reaction of the other key raw material.
2021	Source Reduction:: S21: Optimized process conditions to increase efficiency	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance Barriers: B3-Barriers to P2 B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction.	S21: We are working to reduce residual sodium nitrite in our product. Source Reduction - Our vendor is actively working to produce raw materials with less sodium nitrite. Barriers to P2: B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction. - Lowering Sodium Nitrite to a non-detectable limit causes quality in downstream processing.
2020	Source Reduction:: W50: Optimized reaction conditions or otherwise increased efficiency of synthesis[-25-49%]	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance Barriers: B3-Barriers to P2 B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction.	W50: Reaction conditions are being optimized to reduce residue sodium nitrite. Source Reduction - Toll manufactures are assisting in this process. Barriers to P2: B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction. - Working towards optimizing conditions to have less residue sodium nitrite. Reducing too much causes significant quality issues.
2019	Source Reduction:: W50: Optimized reaction conditions or otherwise increased efficiency of synthesis[-25-49%]	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance Barriers: B3-Barriers to P2 B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction.	W50: Reaction conditions are being optimzed to reduce residue sodium nitrate. Source Reduction - Toll manufactures are assisting in this process, Barriers to P2: B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction. - Working towards optimizing reaction conditions to have less residue sodium nitrite. Reducing too much causes signifiant quality issues.
2018	Source Reduction:: W50: Optimized reaction conditions or otherwise increased efficiency of synthesis[-25-49%]	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance Barriers: B3-Barriers to P2 B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction.	W50: Working on reducing the ammount of residue sodium nitrite in the end product, Source Reduction - Toll manufactures are assisting in ratio optimization. Barriers to P2: B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction. - Quality issues arise if ratios are adjusted too much,
2017	Source Reduction:: W50: Optimized reaction conditions or otherwise increased efficiency of synthesis[-25-49%]	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance	W50: Working on process improvements to have less residual sodium nitrite in the end product, Source Reduction - Toll manufactures are assisting in the process improvements.
2016	Source Reduction:: W50: Optimized reaction conditions or otherwise increased efficiency of synthesis	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance	W50: Working on optimizing reaction conditions to reduce residual sodium in end product. Source Reduction - Working with toll manufactures to reduce residual sodium nitrite in end product.
2015	Source Reduction:: W50: Optimized reaction conditions or otherwise increased efficiency of synthesis[-25-49%]	Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance	W50: Working on optimized reaction conditions to have less resdiual sodium nitrite in the end Source Reduction - Working with toll manufactures to optimze the reaction.

*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.