Waste management disposal costs

Labor content of waste management activities Cost of waste handling and disposal Value of waste handled and discarded Volume of waste handled Weight of waste handled Production downtime incurred (or avoided)... 

Economic data, including cost of raw material management cost of air, wastewater, and hazardous waste treatment waste management operating and maintenance costs and waste disposal costs... 

Provides manifest tracking, permit tracking, source inventory, environmental events, TSCA required data management, waste disposal costs, and groundwater monitoring. 

There are significant opportunities for industry to reduce or prevent pollution at tlie source tlirough cost-effective changes in production, operation and raw materials use.. . . The opportmiities for source reduction are often not realized because existing regulations, and tlie industrial resources tliey require for compliance, focus upon treatment and disposal, rather tliaii source reduction.. . . Source reduction is fundamentally different and more desirable tlian waste management and pollution control. 

A new scheme for location management has developed whereby wastes are diverted to separate holding facilities according to the hazard imposed by the waste. Separate pits are created to hold rig washing and precipitation wastes, solid wastes and drilling fluids [225]. The waste is then reused, disposed on site, or hauled away for offsite treatment. The system reduces contamination of less hazardous materials with the more hazardous materials, thereby reducing disposal 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. 

It is not currently feasible to achieve a zero discharge of chemical pollutants from metal finishing operations. However, substantial reductions in the type and volume of hazardous chemicals wasted from most metal finishing operations are possible.8 Because end-of-pipe waste detoxification is costly for small- and medium-sized metal finishers, and the cost and liability of residuals disposal have increased for all metal finishers, management and production personnel may be more willing to consider production process modifications to reduce the amount of chemicals lost to waste. 

All of these three usually consist of a number of partial costs. Investments, operation management costs, fuel prices, labour costs, solvent costs, and in some cases waste disposal costs are all common costs that has to be taken into account. 

Disposal costs at various radioactive waste management facilities in the United States range from 20/ft to 1500/ft. ANL used an average disposal cost of 60/ft of treated waste form to estimate the total disposal costs for the hypothetical Ceramicrete prodnct. The estimated cost was 2836/m of waste. According to the ANL, this fignre is lower than the disposal costs for cement, which were estimated at 3700/m (D20934H, p. 15). 

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). 

Uchida, T., Itoh, I. Harada, K. 1996. Immobilization of heavy metals contained in incinerator fly ash by application of soluble phosphate - treatment and disposal cost reduction by combined use of high specific surface area lime . Waste Management, 16, 475-481. 

Compliance with the land ban has caused disposal costs to increase by 25% to over 150%. Finding an approved facility is becoming more difficult and the Federal EPA does not have a list of TSD facilities authorized to provide chemical stabilization services. The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) does publish a helpful manual (No. PB88-109699) entitled "Directory of Commercial Hazardous Haste Management Facilities." The manual lists 250 facilities which handle metals wastes. 

J.S. Ilirschhorn (Congressional Office of Technology Assessment) as early as 1988 presented a scholarly summary of waste reduction as the ultimate key to pollution abatement, Waste reduction is the only way to save industry some of tire escalating costs of the current waste-management system. The direct costs of waste disposal have increased some 50 times just over the past few years. Hirschhorn listed six steps to waste reduction ... 

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