Innovation For Waste Minimization
Paint Waste Is An Expensive By-Product Waste streams in body shops are an expensive by-product of painting and maintaining spray gun cleanliness. Waste management in many cases cost shops from $300 to $1,200 for each fifty-five gallon drum of waste. At BECCA, we encounter shops having one to two drums of waterborne waste being removed…
Due to industrial operations use of significant paint thinner and solvents there is a large amount of hazardous solvent waste. Used solvent as well as paint waste are the largest waste items within paint operations. Hazardous waste is managed by several options in addition to, shipping out to off-site for burning, treating and/or recycling, operations may…
Complacency Can Mean Disaster Doing the same thing day in and day out it is easy for anyone to get complacent, letting our guard down. The truth is that the environment of an auto body shop can be quite volatile because of all the chemicals and vapors within the shop. As you will read below…
EPA fines Maryland manufacturer $35K for hazardous waste storage Regardless of your industry improperly stored or the improper disposal of waste can mean costly fines by the EPA. As a result, recently the EPA fined a pharmaceutical manufacturer $35,000. This was due to violating several federal regulations regarding the storage of hazardous waste. In an agreement…
If you generate hazardous waste in your industry, it’s very likely you already know you can be subject to fines if you are noncompliant with hazardous waste disposal laws. Not everybody, however, realizes that those fines have recently increased. This means the federal government is cracking down even harder on these kinds of violations, and…
If your business generates hazardous waste then most likely you are already aware that if you are noncompliant with hazardous waste disposal laws you will have opened yourself and your company up to stiff fines. Many however do not realize that those fines have increased as of August 1, 2016. This means the federal government aggressively pursuing violators, and…
Why Recycle? A common question when discussing recycling solvent – “What is it going to cost us to recycle?” NO “cost” to getting solvent recycling equipment when all is said and done, actually it will in fact save or add to your bottom line. How can it save us money? Expenses of waste removal:…
Companies to spend $78 million on Whittier Groundwater Cleanup! Hundreds of companies have agreed to spend around $78 million on cleaning up groundwater contaminated by toxic chemicals from a Southern California Superfund site, it was announced Wednesday. The consent decree, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, is the latest settlement by companies that between 1976 and…
OSHA fines Manheim Auto-Reconditioning Business $51,000 for safety violation! A Manheim auto-reconditioning business was fined $51,000 for failing to protect workers from toxic compounds and other violations by OSHA [U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration]. An OSHA representative said that they found 40+ health and safety violations when inspecting Dent Wizard International, in response to a complaint…
