Thursday, January 16, 2014

How To Dispose Off Spec Chemicals Without Causing Harm To The Environment

By Judy Sullivan


If your business is generating off spec chemicals, you need to know how to get rid of them properly. These out of date wastes are no longer useful to you so you need to find someone who can reclaim or use them before you think of how to dispose them. When you are disposing these wastes you have to know the right manner of doing that to ensure they are not a threat to the environment.

Some manufacturers avoid going through the hustle of disposing their toxic wastes by recycling or reusing their waste materials. This is a very economical approach as they minimize the costs of buying new materials to make products that they may need in their manufacturing processes. Some companies give or sell their wastes to third party companies that may need the wastes in their day to day business operations. This helps dispose the wastes properly and acts as a source of revenue to these companies.

Some people prefer to use these waste materials as fuel. However, this is very tricky because most of these waste materials produce toxic smoke when burnt. These classes of wastes therefore have damaging effects to the environment when used as a source of fuel. These types of wastes and how they are disposed are therefore stipulated clearly and distributed to members of the public by environmentalists.

This is why it is important to check out the composition of your waste products before discarding them or just burning them. You can tell the products and chemicals in your wastes from general chemical knowledge or by consulting a chemist. You can also take a sample of the waste to any laboratory and have them analyze it for you.

After analyzing the waste products the manufacturer can the go ahead to dispose his wastes. Depending on the composition of the wastes the manufacturer may decide that the wastes are valuable and consider reusing or recycling them. This can help reduce the costs of the operation thus increasing the gross profits of the enterprise. If the wastes are hazardous, then the manufacturer is left with no option but to dispose them in a landfill.

Throwing this waste in solid landfills takes time. This is because you are required to go to the permitted chemical storage which is like a disposal facility. These facilities are not very many so if there is none in your region you have to find one because you cannot dispose these wastes anywhere due to the threat they pose in the environment. One is required to get a permit before disposing in these facilities.

In some special cases, the manufacturer may consider using his waste products for energy recovery. These wastes are burned in regulated furnaces to make sure that the harmful gases do not escape to the atmosphere. These harmful emissions are then chemically treated to form degradable wastes or which are not harmful to the environment or human and animal life.

One is supposed to follow all the rules pertaining waste products to ensure proper management of the off spec chemicals on site. There has to be proper transportation of the products as well as Manifestations and record keeping, among other requirements. If you generate more than what is expected of you then you are supposed to make a report which has every detail about the outdated substances.




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