Best practicable technology

Table 3.2 presents an industry summary for the nonferrous metals industry indicating the number of subcategories and the number and type of dischargers. Table 3.3 presents best practicable technology (BPT) limitations that have been promulgated and reported in the Federal Register.3-5... 

Best Practices. Technology leaders must provide the direction for improving work processes as well as the work itself. They should seek the best known ways to carry out R D best practices. There is considerable advice available on best R D practices. 

As shown in this table, a zero discharge of process waste-water pollutants is required by EPA for all facets of the timber products industry except wet storage of legs, wet-process fiber products manufacture, and one segment of the wood preserving industry. This requirement, by definition, holds that a zero discharge is "the best practicable technology currently available" by which the affected industries can control pollution. 

EPA. 1992a. Effluent limitations representing degree of effluent reduction attainable by the application of the best practical technology economically available (BAT). 40 CFR 414. 

Biocatalysis - Current Applications and Best Practice. Technology Report August 2003. Pro-Bio Faraday Parmership. 

Best practicable technology (BPT) currently available for control of conventional, toxic, and nonconventional pollutants and applicable to existing dischargers... 

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