TRI Pollution Prevention Report for INDUSTRIAL SPECIALTY CHEMICALS INC. and Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)

Facility ID: 6047WNDSTR41W16

Facility Name and Address:
INDUSTRIAL SPECIALTY CHEMICALS INC.
410 W 169TH ST
SOUTH HOLLAND, IL 60473

Parent Company: NA

Industry: All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing (325998)
Chemical: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)

Production Related Waste Management for Selected Chemical

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Waste Management Comparison - 2022

Pollution Prevention Activities for Selected Chemical

Reporting Year	Section 8.10: Methods to Identify Activity	Section 8.11: Optional Pollution Prevention Information*
2020		Source Reduction: Source Reduction - B8 - A source reduction does not appear to be technically feasible
2019	Barriers: B8-Barriers to P2 B8 - A reduction does not appear to be technically feasible	Barriers to P2: B8 - A reduction does not appear to be technically feasible - Nitrate compounds in solution do not respond to precipitation technology.
2018		Other Barriers to Source Reduction - The amount of this material per year is very small, and does not lend itself to full scale means of elimination entirely. How to eliminate this Sodium Nitrate completely in manufacturing our products is not known.
2017	Barriers: B7-Barriers to P2 B7 - No known substitutes or alternative technologies.	Barriers to P2: B7 - No known substitutes or alternative technologies. - The nitrate is in a miniscule suspended form that settles by gravity. The settling minimizes waste volume. The nitrate in the wet solids amounts to approximately 0.001% of product produced.

*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.