Waste management costs

Low solvent consumption and reduced waste management costs... 

Metal finishers are seeing their profits shrink as waste management costs increase. To control waste disposal costs, metal finishers must focus on developing and implementing a facility-wide waste reduction program. In other words, as discussed in Section 6.4, metal finishers must consciously seek out ways to decrease the volume of waste that they generate. 

The type of waste currently generated by the plant, the source of the waste, the waste management method, the quantity of the waste, and the annual waste management cost for each waste... 

Source U.S. EPA, Steel Pickling, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, June 2008. Available at http // www.epa.gov/tri/TWebHelp/WebHelp/hcl section 3 l 4 steel pickling.htm a Included in annual waste management cost for miscellaneous solid waste. 

According to the vendor, in the United States the typical cost for the disposal of a hazardous heavy-metal waste ranges from 175 to 240 per ton, and the typical waste management cost is approximately 275 per ton. According to Solucorp Industries, an in-line MBS would save a manufacturer up to 150 or more per ton of waste treated (D15307B, p. 1). 

The impact of California s waste reduction efforts have not yet been measured quantitatively. Measuring the true efforts is complicated because it is difficult to attribute statewide waste reduction results specifically to the Waste Reduction Program. Even then, that impact may not be distinguishable from that of more stringent regulatory requirements, escalating off-site waste management costs, and broad-based industry trends. 

Figure 13.13. Dependence of waste management costs on waste quality plastics packaging.

During this step, target product/process was selected and the data related to this product/process were also collected including MC, EC, wage, SCs, and waste management cost. 

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