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* |
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| 2020 |
Other Environmental Practices: Waste Treatment - The Site has a plan developed for re-starting the wastewater treatment operation of the indicated pollutant on-site. |
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| 2019 |
Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping[-50-99%]
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Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
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W52: We completely decommissioned all chrome plating activities associated with the old chrome platers and used the two new platers exclusively in 2019. This drastically reduced the amount of waste chrome sludge generated at our waste water treatment plant, which reduced the amount of hazardous waste generated. |
| 2017 |
Source Reduction:: W52: Modified equipment, layout, or piping
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Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T03: Materials balance audits
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other |
W52: In 2017, we shut down two of our three existing chrome platers and replaced them with a new chrome plater. A second new plater will be installed in 2018, and the remaining old plater will be shut down. This will significantly reduce the amount of chromium waste in 2018, as well as produce product more efficiently. |
| 2013 |
Other Barriers to Source Reduction - Pollution prevention previously implemented- additional reduction does not appear technically or economically feasible. We have implemented counter-current rinsing and optimized dwell and spray rinsing.We are following developments in non-chrome coatings such as organometallics but will need to wait until such technologies are commercially viable. We are also looking into increasing throughput which would enable us to do the same amount of plating with increased efficiency, allowing us to right-size our operation.. |
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")