COMPANY NAME |
GOALS |
| Aetna Insulated Wire, Inc. |
•Reduce/eliminate lead from its wire and cable production. |
| Alcon Research, LTD |
•Remove and recycle mercury-containing equipment in their facility including thermostats, switches and gauges. |
American
Video Glass
Television Glass Manufacturing |
•Reduce lead waste disposal. |
| Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA) |
•Will remove mercury-bearing switches from end-of-life vehicles. |
| Appalachian Power Company Clinch River Plant |
•Replace four PCB Transformer/Rectifier (T/R) sets. |
| Appalachian Power Company John Amos Plant |
•Replace 56 PCB Transformer/Rectifier (T/R) sets. |
| ArcelorMittal USA Coatesville |
•Comprehensive mercury reduction including purchasing mercury free devices, replacing mercury devices and reducing mercury in scrap metal. |
| ArcelorMittal USA Conshohocken |
•Comprehensive mercury reduction including purchasing mercury free devices, replacing mercury devices and reducing mercury in scrap metal. |
| ArcelorMittal USA Steelton |
•Comprehensive mercury reduction including purchasing mercury free devices, replacing mercury devices and reducing mercury in scrap metal. |
| ArcelorMittal USA Weirton |
•Comprehensive mercury reduction including purchasing mercury free devices, replacing mercury devices and reducing mercury in scrap metal. |
| AutoRecyclers,
LLC |
•Remove light switch assemblies
containing mercury from vehicles during disassembly and all lead battery
terminals. |
| Baldwin
Hardware Corporation |
•Brass fines segregation
and recovery. |
| Brenco |
•Remove all mercury containing devices that control their process and facility temperature. Eliminate the use of PCB ballasts in their lighting. |
| CB Richard Ellis |
•Recycle mercury from lamps, thermostats, and other devices. |
| Costco Wholesale |
•Eliminate the use of lead wheel weights in all Costco Tire Centers in the US. |
| Crown Cork and Seal |
•Substitution of solvent. |
| Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) |
•Capture and recycle the mercury in fluorescent lamps. |
DuPont
de Nemours and Co.
Titanium Technologies |
•Reduce dioxin generation. |
| EMCOR Facilities Services, Inc. |
•Recycle of spent mercury-containing lamps, thermostats, and other devices. |
| Exide Technologies, Reading Smelter |
•Reduce lead levels in the emission control sludge generated at the facility. |
| FCI USA, Inc. |
•Reduce the use of lead in solder. |
| Federal-Mogul,
Boyertown Facility |
• Substitute the leaded
solders in the manufacturing process with one or more copper/tin solder
blends. |
Federal-Mogul,
Powertrain Systems |
•Eliminate the use of
lead in production processes. |
| Flowserve
Corporation Chesapeake Facility |
•Reduce methyl ethyl ketone
(MEK) usage through the use of a distillation recovery process; reduce
MEK in waste and increase MEK recycle. |
| GE Energy |
•Reduce amount of lead disposed of as hazardous waste. |
General Electric
Consumer Products
Bridgeville Glass Plant |
•Eliminate the use of
lead with material substitution. |
General
Electric Consumer Products
Fanuc Automation |
•Reduce the use of lead
through substitution of lead-free solder. |
| General Electric
Consumer Products Winchester Lamp Plant |
•Reduce amount of lead
in waste and increase recycling.
• Substitution of lead solder. |
| GrafTech International Holdings, Inc. |
•Waste dusts containing Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (PACs) will be recycled instead of disposed of in a landfill |
| K
& L Microwave |
•Substitute non-leaded
solders and non-leaded tin to reduce use of lead from 400 pounds to
50 pounds per year. |
| Kalas
Manufacturing Plant 2 |
•Reduce the use of lead
materials by 20,000 pounds through the use of lead-free or reduced-lead
raw materials. |
| Kalas
Manufacturing Plant 3 |
•Reduce the use of lead
materials by 7,500 pounds through the use of solderless products offerings. |
| Koppers, Inc. |
•Reduce the amount of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (PACs) and Benzo(ghi)perylene that is disposed as hazardous waste by improving equipment. |
| M&M Tire and Auto Service |
•Use lead-free wheel weights. |
| Marriot International, Inc. |
•Recycle flourescent bulbs. |
| Marsh Bellofram |
•Recycle lead from lead-acid batteries and recycle alkaline batteries |
| Material
Sciences Corporation |
•Substitute to a naphthalene-free
paint system, reduce naphthalene in waste. |
| Moog
Components Group |
•Eliminate lead in all
commercial slip rings. |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
•Proper management of hazardous waste materials from construction debris. |
| PPG Industries |
•Reduce mercury from 2 chlor-alkali production facilities. |
| Philips Lighting Co. |
•Recycle mercury-containing lamps and reduce and/or eliminate lead in lighting products. |
| Philip Morris |
•Continuous replacement of flourescent lamps with low mercury T5 flourescent lamps. |
| PolyOne Corporation, Lehigh Valley |
•Reduce the amount of lead in their products, processes, and/or releases. |
Precoat
Metals, McKeesport Plant
|
•Substitute organic coatings
with naphthalene-depleted solvents. |
| Prior Coated Metals |
•Substitute to a naphthalene-free reducing solvent system. |
| Reilly Plating |
•Eliminate the use of cadmium-containing stabilizers in electroless nickel process. |
| Rivanna Solid Waste Authority |
•Recycle mercury containing bulbs and devices. |
| Sentara
Williamsburg Community Hospital |
•Remove mercury from the
hospital by replacing 172 baum sphygmomanometers. |
| Sony Electronics Inc. |
•Recycling lead frit paste used in the manufacture of cathode ray tubes (CRTs). |
| South Main Auto Service |
•Use lead free wheel weights and recycle lead wheel weights. |
| Southern
Graphic Systems, Inc. |
•Replace lead anodes in
chrome strip operation with titanium strips. |
| Spartech FCD, LLC |
•Eliminate the use of lead-based pigments and cadmium-based stabilizers |
| St. Luke’s Hospital |
•Remove all mercury-containing devices from the facility and all medical office buildings. |
| Sylvin
Technologies, Inc. |
•Be lead free by the end
of 2006, by convincing customers to switch to newly developed lead
free versions of old compounds. |
| Tobyhanna
Army Depot |
•Substitution of lead solders
•Eliminate cadmium in some plating operations. |
| Town of Blacksburg |
•Eliminate the use of lead wheels weights. |
| Transwestern Commercial Services |
•Recycle spent fluorescent lamps, ballasts, and batteries. |
| United States Air Force |
•Use lead free wheel weights. |
| U.S. Army Fort A.P. Hill |
•Recover lead from projectiles fired on their ranges. |
US Steel
Corporation
Mon Valley Works |
•Reduce the amount of
lead dross generated.
•Reduce chromic acid coating solution disposal with improved
process control. |
Virginia Automotive
Recyclers Association
|
•Remove mercury switches from automobiles
during salvage operations. |
| West Virginia Bureau of Public Health |
•Remove all mercury-containing thermometers. |
| Wheeling Corrugated Company |
•Eliminate the use of lead in coil coatings. Replace the use of chlorine gas with liquid bleach. |
| Wirerope Works,
Inc, Williamsport Plant |
•Eliminate lead by replacing existing
lead patenting process with a direct fired furnace that uses a salt
quench. |
Aetna Insulated Wire, Inc.
Aetna Insulated Wire, Inc. Enrollment Ceremony
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Offer lead-free PVC insulation alternative to their customers
Source Reduction Quantity:
•27,800 lbs of lead in one year.
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Alcon Research, LTD
PHOTO: Not available
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Mercury
Goal:
•Remove and recycle mercury-containing equipment in their facility including thermostats, switches and gauges.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•1 lb of mercury by December 2009
•Supplemental Recycling Goals: 27,000 lb of Acetone by December 2009
8,000 lb of Ethylene Glycol by December 2009
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American Video Glass
K. Kanna, General Manager, Sony Corporation,
K Kusuda, President of American Video Glass, Chuck Gregory Corporate
President of the Sony Technology Center, Marianne Horinko, EPA Assistant
Administrator for the Office of Solid Waste and Dave Allard, Deputy
Secretary for PA Department of Environmental Protection after receiving
an enrollment plaque at a recognition ceremony in October 2002.
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Reduce the amount of waste batch disposed as a hazardous waste
by 25% per unit of production.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reduction of batch waste: 25%.
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Appalachian Power Company Clinch River Plant
PHOTO: Not available
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•PCB's
Goal:
•Replace four PCB Transformer/Rectifier (T/R) sets
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•5,020 lb of PCB by December 2008
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Appalachian Power Company John Amos Plant
PHOTO: Not available
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•PCB's
Goal:
•Replace 56 PCB Transformer/Rectifier (T/R) sets
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•90,653 lb of PCB by December 2008
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ArcelorMittal USA Coatesville
PHOTO: Not available
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Mercury
Goal:
•Comprehensive mercury reduction including purchasing mercury free devices, replacing mercury devices and reducing mercury in scrap metal.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•32.6 lb of mercury by September 2012
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ArcelorMittal USA Conshohocken
PHOTO: Not available
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Mercury
Goal:
•Comprehensive mercury reduction including purchasing mercury free devices, replacing mercury devices and reducing mercury in scrap metal.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•32.6 lb of mercury by September 2012
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ArcelorMittal USA Steelton
PHOTO: Not available
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Mercury
Goal:
•Comprehensive mercury reduction including purchasing mercury free devices, replacing mercury devices and reducing mercury in scrap metal.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•32.6 lb of mercury by September 2012
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ArcelorMittal USA Weirton
PHOTO: Not available
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Mercury
Goal:
•Comprehensive mercury reduction including purchasing mercury free devices, replacing mercury devices and reducing mercury in scrap metal.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•32.6 lb of mercury by September 2012
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Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA)
Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA) Enrollment Ceremony
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Mercury
Goal:
• Remove mercury-bearing switches from end-of-life vehicles.
Source Reduction Quantity:
• Reduction of mercury: 246 lb by September 2008
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|
AutoRecyclers,
LLC
PA and Virginia DEQ officials present
the NPEP enrollment plaque to Paul and Maria Palma, owners of AutoRecycler,
LLC. |
Priority
Chemicals:
•Mercury
• Lead
Goal
#1
•Remove mercury from light switch assemblies during disassembly
and ship mercury to a licensed recycler.
Goal
#2
•Remove and recycle lead from lead battery terminals.
Source
Reduction Quantity
•Reduction and recycling of mercury: 960 grams by August 2005.
•Reduction and recycling of lead: 240 pounds by August 2005.
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Baldwin Hardware
In a ceremony held in Reading, Pa, on December
12, 2003 Regional Administrator Donald Welsh recognized Baldwin
Hardware Corporation, represented by David Hancock, Manager of Environmental
Services, for being the first company in the Philadelphia-Berks
county areas to enroll in the National Waste Minimization Partnership
Program.
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Segregate brass fines from polishing waste. The segregated
fraction will be sent to a brass mill for recovery. This process
will recover all of the constituents of brass, primarily copper,
lead and zinc.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Recycling brass fines : 100%.
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Brenco
Brenco Enrollment Ceremony
|
Priority Chemicals:
•Mercury and PCB's
Goals: Remove all mercury containing devices that control their process and facility temperature. Eliminate the use of PCB ballasts in their lighting.
Source Reduction Quantity: 22 lbs of mercury in one year. |
|
CB Richard Ellis
PHOTO: Not available |
Priority
Chemicals:
•Mercury
Goal:
•Mercury: Recycle mercury from spent fluorescent lamps from over 249,000,000 square feet of commercial, retail, and industrial buildings.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Recycling of mercury: 230 lbs by December 2008.
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Costco Wholesale
PHOTO: Not available
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Eliminate the use of lead wheel weights in all Costco Tire Centers in the US.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•10,000 lb of lead by December 2008
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Crown Cork and Seal
Plaque presentation for Crown Cork and Seal
|
Priority Chemicals:
• Naphthalene
Goal:
• Substitute thinner with a naphthalene-free reducing solvent.
Source Reduction Quantity:
• Reduction of naphthalene: 1809 lb by June 2008
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Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
Defence Logistics Agency (DLA) Enrollment Ceremony
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Mercury
Goal: Capture and recycle the mercury in fluorescent lamps.
Source Reduction Quantity: All the mercury from approximately 15,000 fluorescent lamps.
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Dupont de Nemours and Co:
Titanium Technologies
Leonard J. Fasullo Environmental Manager
of DuPont Titanium Technologies Plant, Edge Moore, DE accepts the
National Waste Minimization Partnership Program enrollment plaque
from Barry Breen, acting Assistant Administrator for the Office
of Solid waste and Emergency Response, at the 2003 RCRA national
meeting.
Remarks: This program is also being implemented at two other facilities,
DeLisle, MS and Johnsonville TN.
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Dioxin
Goal:
•To reduce inadvertently generated dioxins and dioxin-like
compounds (furans) at all Dupont Titanium Technologies sites at
the source of generation. Full scale tests will be implemented to
assess the feasibility at each site to assure the modifications
can be implemented, and to identify permanent equipment needs.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reductions: 50%.
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EMCOR Facilities Services, Inc.
EMCOR Facilities Services, Inc. Enrollment Ceremony
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Mercury
Goal:
•Development of a mercury recycling program for the facilities they manage in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Recycling of mercury: 5 lbs by December 2006; 10 lbs by December 2007.
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Exide Technologies, Reading Smelter
PHOTO: Not available |
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Reduce lead levels in the emission control sludge generated at the facility with preventative maintenance practices.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Source reduction of lead: 96.5 % by December 2007.
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FCI USA, Inc.
PHOTO: Not Available |
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Reduce the use of lead in solder.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reduction of 16% in lead per connector produced.
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Federal-Mogul, Boyertown
Facility
David Weik (right), Plant Manager at Federal-Mogul,
Boyertown accepts enrollment plaque from EPA Region 3 Administrator.
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•To
modify manufacturing processes and equipment and substitute leaded
solders with one or more copper/tin solder blends, by July 2005.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reduction
of lead: 19,000+ lbs.
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Federal-Mogul,
Powertrain Systems
EPA and Virginia DEQ officials present the
NPEP enrollment plaque to Margie Deck, Plant Manager of Federal-Mogul
Powertrain Systems.
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Eliminate use of lead in manufacturing process.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reduction and recycling of lead: 127,500 pounds by January
2007.
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Flowserve Corporation,
Chesapeake Facility
Flowserve Corporation Plant Manager accepts
NPEP enrollment plaque from Virginia DEQ Tidewater Regional Office
Director.
|
Priority
Chemicals:
Methyl ethyl ketone (MEK). (MEK is not a Priority Chemical)
Goal:
• To reduce the consumption of MEK usage through the use of
a distillation process which will allow the facility to recycle
from spent MEK into reusable MEK.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reduce MEK waste: 25 lbs.
•Increase MEK recycling: 200 lbs.
|
|
GE Energy, Newark, Delaware
GE Energy Enrollment Ceremony
|
Priority Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
• Reduce amount of lead disposed of as hazardous waste
Source Reduction Quantity:
• 85 lb of lead by August 2008
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General Electric Consumer Products,
Bridgeville Glass Plant
Matthew C. Augustine, Environmental, Health
& Safety Manager of GE Lighting, Bridgeville, PA Plant accepts
the National Waste Minimization Partnership Program enrollment plaque
from Barry Breen, acting Assistant Administrator for the Office
of Solid waste and Emergency Response, at the 2003 RCRA national
meeting.
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Eliminate the use of lead by replacing the litharge (lead
oxide) currently used in the 012 product line with a non-hazardous
material.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reduction of lead oxide: 25%.
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General Electric Consumer
Products, Fanuc Automation
PHOTO: Not Available |
Priority
Chemicals
•Lead
Goal:
•Reduce use of lead through the substitution of lead-free solder.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reduction and recycling of lead: 238 pounds by December 2005.
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General
Electric Consumer Products, Winchester Lamp Plant
Wilbert Whitfield, General Electric Winchester
Lamp Plant Manager accepts enrollment plaque from the Deputy Director,
U.S. EPA Office of Solid Waste. Also pictured: Air Compliance Manager,
VA DEQ and U.S. EPA Region 3 Waste Minimization Team Leader.
Remarks: The
Circleville Lamp Plant, Circleville, OH, another GE Consumer Products
Facility, is also enrolled in the NPEP.
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Reduce the amount of lead in waste and increase recycling.
•Substitute lead solder used in manufacturing process with
tin/copper or tin/antimony alloy solder to reduce quantity of lead
in waste.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reduction of lead in waste: 409,740 lbs.
•Increase recycling: 357,400 lbs.
•Reduce lead from solder by 50% (100,000 lbs.).
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GrafTech International Holdings, Inc. |
Priority Chemicals: •PACs, as defined by TRI
Goal:
•Waste dusts containing Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (PACs) will be recycled instead of disposed of in a landfill
•Source Reduction Quantity:
•4,253 lb of PACs by December 2009
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K & L Microwave
Deputy Director, Land and Chemicals Division, EPA Region 3 (left) and Program Director of
the Hazardous Waste Program present the National Partnership for
Environmental Priorities plaque to Don Hoeler (middle), K&L
general manager.
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Reduce use of lead through the substitution of lead-free solder.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reduction and recycling of lead: From 400 pounds to less than
50 pounds by July 2006.
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Kalas Manufacturing
Plant 2
EPA Regional Administrator and PA DEP Assistant
Director South Regional Office present Kalas Plant #2 Manager Rick
Kile with a plaque in recognition for their efforts in reducing
lead waste.
|
Priority
Chemicals:
• Lead
Goal:
•Reduce use of lead through purchase of reduced lead materials
in coating process.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reduction and recycling of lead: 20,000 pounds (20%)
by December 2006.
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Kalas Manufacturing
Plant 3
EPA Regional Administrator and PA DEP Assistant
Director South Central Regional Office present Kalas Plant #3 Manager
Ron Engler with a plaque in recognition for their efforts in reducing
lead waste.
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Reduce use of lead through solderless product offerings.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reduction and recycling of lead: 7,500 pounds (25%) by December
2006.
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Koppers, Inc.
Carroll Cather, WVDEP, Peter Piergiovanni Mark Cilley, SH&E Coordinator for the Follansbee Plant, Nate Weinstein, Plant Manager and Gregory Traczek, Operations Manager.
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•PACs and Benzo(ghi)perylene
Goal:
•Reduce the amount of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (PACs) and Benzo(ghi)perylene that is disposed as hazardous waste by improving equipment
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•50,154 lb of PACs by December 2009.
8,680 lb of Benzo(ghi)perylene by December 2009.
Recovery Quantities: 13,049 lb increase in PACs recovered by December 2009.
1,000 lb increase in Benzo(ghi)perylene by December 2009.
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M&M Tire and Auto Service
No Photo Provided
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Use lead-free wheel weights
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•100 lb of lead by December 2008.
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Marriot International, Inc.
No Photo Provided
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Mercury
Goal:
•Recycle flourescent bulbs
Recycling Quantity:
•1 lb of mercury by December 2009.
Supplemental Recyling Goal: Increase recyling of alkaline batteries by 45,000 lb.
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Marsh Bellofram
No Photo Provided |
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Recycle lead from lead-acid batteries and recycle alkaline batteries
Recycling Quantity:
•200 lb lead and 150 lb of alkaline batteries by June 2010
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Material Sciences Corporation
Material Sciences Corporation receive plaque
from Deputy Director of U.S. EPA Land & Chemicals
Division at recognition ceremony.
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Naphthalene
Goal:
•Substitute a naphthalene-containing paint system with a naphthalene-free
paint system; reduce naphthalene in waste.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reduce naphthalene waste: 25,000 lbs.
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Moog Components Group
Mike Callahan, Operations Manager (second
from left) and Jim Lyons, Quality and Facilities Manager, Moog Components
Group (far right) accept the NPEP enrollment plaque from EPA and
Virginia DEQ officials.
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Remove lead use from manufacturing process by converting
to lead-free solder.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Eliminate 250 pounds of lead by July 2006.
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National Institutes of Health (NIH)
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
•Mercury
Goal:
•Recycle mercury-containing lamps.
•Recycle lead-containing instruments and devices.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Source reduction of mercury: 100 % by December 2006
•Source reduction of lead: 100 % by December 2006
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PPG Industries
No Photo Available |
Priority
Chemicals:
•Mercury
Goal:
Reduce mercury from 2 chlor-alkali production facilities.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
Eliminate or reduce mercury by
1) converting one of the production facilities from a mercury cell plant to a new membrane facility, and
2) selecting new sampling methodology and pollution control equipment.
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Philips Lighting Co.
Philips Lighting Co. Enrollment Ceremony
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
•Mercury
Goal:
•Reduce and/or eliminate lead in lighting products.
•Reduce mercury content in fluorescent light bulbs.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Source reduction of lead: 1.49 million lbs by December 2010
•Source reduction of mercury: 2220 lbs by December 2007
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Philip Morris
Philip Morris Enrollment Ceremony
|
Priority Chemical: Mercury
Goals: Continuous replacement of flourescent lamps with low mercury T5 flourescent lamps.
Source Reduction Quantity: 1750 lamps in one year.
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PolyOne Corporation, Lehigh Valley
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Reduce lead compound usage by reducing/eliminating the use of lead-based stabilizers in PVC products.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Source reduction of lead: 100 % by Dec 2006
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Precoat Metals, McKeesport
Plant
Plant Manager and EH&S Manager of Precoat Metals accept the NPEP enrollment plaque from EPA. |
Priority
Chemicals:
•Naphthalene
Goal:
•To ask paint suppliers to evaluate the reformulation
of its coatings with naphthalene-free solvents.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Source Quantity Reduction: Reduction of Naphthalene
by 2000 lbs by December 2006.
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Prior Coated Metals
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Naphthalene
Goal:
•Substitute a naphthalene-containing solvent with a naphthalene-free product.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Source reduction of naphthalene: 1,800 lbs by December 2006
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| Reilly Plating
Reilly Plating Award Presentation
|
Priority Chemicals:
•Cadmium
Goal:
• Eliminate the use of cadmium-containing stabilizers in electroless nickel process
Source Reduction Quantity
•21.4 pounds by December 2008 |
|
Rivanna Solid Waste Authority
David Atkins, Environmental & Safety Manager & Mark Brownlee,
Ivy Transfer Station and Landfill Manager
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Mercury
Goal:
•Recycle mercury containing bulbs and devices
Recycling Quantity:
•Increase recyling by 230 lb
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Sentara Williamsburg Community
Hospital
Don West, Sentara Director of Support Operations,
accepts enrollment plaque from Chief of the Environmental Innovations
Branch, US EPA Region 3.
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Mercury
Goal:
•Remove mercury from the hospital by replacing 172 baum sphygmomanometers.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reduction of mercury: 41 lbs.
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Sony Electronics Inc.
PHOTO: Not available
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Reduce lead compound usage by reducing/eliminating the use of lead-based stabilizers in PVC products
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•.Recycling of lead: 30,000 lbs by June 2006.
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South Main Auto Service
PHOTO: Not available
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Use lead free wheel weights and recycle lead wheel weights.
Source Reduction Quantity:
•600 lb of lead by December 2008
Recycling Quantity:
•1000 lb of lead by December 2008.
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Southern Graphic Systems,
Inc.
Dennis L. Wilcox, Regional Vice President,
Southern Graphic Systems Inc. accepts enrollment plaque the Deputy
Director, U.S. EPA Office of Solid Waste, and the Director of Waste
Division, VA DEQ.
|
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Replace lead anodes in chrome strip operation with titanium
strips. Replace vertical chrome plating tanks that use lead anodes
as the plating catalyst with horizontal tanks that use platinum
coated titanium screens.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reduce lead waste: 310 lbs.
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Spartech FCD, LLC |
Priority Chemicals:
•Lead
•Cadmium
Goal:
Eliminate the use of lead-based pigments and cadmium-based stabilizers
Source Reduction Quantity:
•5,805 lb of lead and 45,957 lb of cadmium by December 2012
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St. Luke's Hospital
PHOTO: Not available |
Priority
Chemicals:
•Mercury
Goal:
•Removal of all mercury-containing devices from the facility and all medical office buildings.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Source reduction of mercury: 50 lbs by March 2007
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Sylvin Technologies, Inc.
Sylvin Technologies Scientist, John Schlitzer
receives plaque
from EPA Region 3 Administrator.
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Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goals:
•To be lead free by the end of 2006, by establishing yearly goals
and achieving these goals by convincing customers to switch to newly
developed lead free versions of their old compounds.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reduction of lead: 125,244 pounds by 2004; by 50,000 pounds
by 2005; and be lead free by 2006.
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Tobyhanna Army Depot
Michael L. Parrent, Pollution Prevention
Program Manager of Tobyhanna Army Depot, Tobyhanna, PA Plant accepts
the National Waste Minimization Partnership Program enrollment plaque
from Barry Breen, acting Assistant Administrator for the Office
of Solid waste and Emergency Response, at the 2003 RCRA national
meeting. |
Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
•Cadmium
Goal:
•Substitution of lead solders with lead-free solders.
•Vapor deposition technology to substitute aluminum for cadmium
in some plating operations.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reduction of lead: 99.5%.
•Reduction of cadmium: 57%.
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Town of Blacksburg
Town of Blacksbury National Waste Minimization
Partnership Program enrollment plaque Ceremony.
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Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Eliminate the use of lead wheel weights in the town's garage by using lead-free weights instead
Source
Reduction Quantity
Reduction of lead: 100 % by Dec 2007
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Transwestern Commercial Services 
Transwestern Commerical Services' National Waste Minimization
Partnership Program enrollment plaque ceremony. |
Priority
Chemicals:
•Mercury
Goal:
•Established a policy to recycle 100% of fluorescent lamps, ballasts, and batteries used in each participating facility.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Recycling of mercury: 5 lbs by December 2006; 10 lbs by December 2007
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United States Air Force
PHOTO: Not available
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Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal:
•Use lead free wheel weights.
Source Reduction Quantity:
•10,000 lb of lead by December 2011.
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U.S. Army Fort A.P. Hill
U.S. Army Fort A.P. Hill Enrollment Ceremony
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Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
Goal: Recover lead from projectiles fired on their ranges.
Source Reduction Quantity: 900 lbs of lead by September 2008
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US Steel Corporation
Kathleen Mayher Manager Remediation for
of US Steel Corporation, accepts the National Waste Minimization
Partnership Program enrollment plaque from Barry Breen, acting Assistant
Administrator for the Office of Solid waste and Emergency Response
, at the 2003 RCRA national meeting.
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Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead
•Chromic acid
Goal:
•Reduce the amount of lead dross generated, by reducing the
quantity of flux added to the process. To achieve this goal changes
in the drossing procedures will be implemented.
•Installation of an automatic titration system to control the
pH of the chromic acid coating solution. By doing this, the coating
solution will "etch" less zinc from the galvanized steel
strip thereby extending the solution life and reducing the amount
of chromic acid solution disposal.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reduction of lead dross : 37%.
•Reduction of chromic acid waste: 64%.
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Virginia Automotive Recyclers
Association
PHOTO: Not available |
Priority
Chemicals:
•Mercury:
Goals:
• Remove mercury switches from automobiles during salvage operations
and send them to approved mercury recycler. Collect 450 switches
from each of the twenty-six member facilities that are participating
in the program.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reduction of mercury: 30 lbs. by December 2005.
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West Virginia Bureau of Public Health
Barbara Eckerd, Associate Director Office of Laboratory Services West Virginia Bureau of Public Health, Helen Hutchison from the Office of Laboratory Services West Virginia Bureau of Public Health and Carroll Cather of the West Virginia DEP.
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Priority Chemicals:
• Mercury
Goal:
• Remove all mercury-containing thermometers.
Source Reduction Quantity:
• Reduction of mercury: 1 lb by March 2008
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Wheeling Corrugated Company
Wheeling Corrugated Enrollment Ceremony
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Priority Chemical:
Lead and Chlorine
Goal: Eliminate the use of lead in coil coatings. Replace the use of chlorine gas with liquid bleach.
Source Reduction Quantity: Eliminate approximately 375 lb of lead and 2,100 lb of chlorine.
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Wirerope Works, Inc.,
Williamsport Plant
Virgil R. Probasco, Executive Vice President
of Wirerope accepts the National Waste Minimization Partnership
(NPEP) Program enrollment plaque from Deputy Director of U.S. EPA
Land & Chemicals Division.
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Priority
Chemicals:
•Lead:
Goals:
• Eliminate lead by replacing existing lead patenting process
with a direct fired furnace that uses a salt quench.
Source
Reduction Quantity:
•Reduction of lead: 27,000 lbs.
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