Waste Management Options

Combustion Combustion of industrial and municipal waste is an attractive waste management option because it reduces the volume of waste by 70 to 90 percent. In the face of shrinking landfill availabihty, municipal waste combustion capacity in the United States has grown at an astonishing rate, significantly faster than the growth rate for municipal refuse generation. 

Calculate the annual operating costs for the existing process that needs waste treatment, and estimate how these costs would be altered by the introduction of waste-reduction options. Tabulate and compare the process and waste-treatment operating costs for both the existing and proposed waste-management options. If there are any monetary benefits (such as recycled or reused materials or wastes), then these should be subtracted from the total process or waste-treatment costs as appropriate. The expanded cost-analysis scheme discussed in Chapter 8 is appropriate to include at this point in the process. 

The various waste-management options namely, source reduction, recycle/reuse, treatment, and disposal. 

Section 2 gives a general introduction to plastics waste management options ... 

The primary objective is to develop an appropriate range of waste management options to be analyzed more fully in the detailed analysis phase of the FS.12 Appropriate waste management ensures the protection of human health and the environment. It may involve, depending on site-specific circumstances, complete elimination or destruction of hazardous substances at the site, significant reduction of concentrations of hazardous substances to acceptable health-based levels, and prevention of exposure to hazardous substances via engineering or institutional controls, or some combination of the above. 

This paper will discuss how some foundries have evaluated the application of these waste management options for calcium carbide desulfurization slag and melt emission control residuals. 

KIRNER, N., KELLY, J., FAISON, G. and JOHNSON, D. (1995). Mixed Waste Management Options 1995 Update. National Low-Level Waste Management Program, U.S. Department of Energy Report DOE/LLW-219 (National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia). 

PLASTICS PYROL YSIS AS A WASTE MANAGEMENT OPTION 6.4.1 Status in the E.U... 

If the separation of actinides from HAW is demonstrated to be feasible, a number of alternative waste management options could open up, due to large differences in the radiation properties of the two waste fractions. 

Connell M (1999) Waste management options in the wood protection industry. Journal of the Institute of Wood Science, 75(1) 51-8... 

APC, Understanding Plastic Film Its uses, benefits and waste management options, 1997, http //www.americanplasticscouncil.org. 

Recommcndation 4-1. To avoid the possibility of unanticipated disposal problems, the PMACWA and the BGCAPP contractor should characterize and consider waste management options for reverse osmosis rejectate brine, supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) filtrate solid waste, SCWO titanium tank liners, venturi scrubber particulate filters, and energetics offgas treatment system filters before submitting the waste analysis plan required by RCRA. The PMACWA should also look carefully for any as-yet-unidentified secondary waste streams from BGCAPP or PCAPP. 

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