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Hazardous Waste Minimization
Introduction: Noga Levit, RMS Director Environmental Services
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Agenda
Time Topic Speaker
12:00 Welcome & Introduction Noga Levit Risk Management Services
12:05 Where Does Your Waste Go? Noga Levit
12:15 Hazardous Waste Reduction Measures at UBC
Ligia Gheorghita Risk Management Services
12:30 Bingo Andrea Patrao Risk Management Services
12:45 Get Involved Ligia Gheorghita
12:55 Survey & Door Prizes Green Labs Committee
1:00 BREAK 1:10 Sustainability Coordinators only!
Networking session Andrea Patrao
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Intro notes
• Thanks to Fisher for this L&L sponsorship • Lab sustainability coordinators 35 in 20 buildings • Invitation to join the program and become a coordinator • Get involved plan upcoming year
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Get Involved 2015-2016 Quarter Theme Activities
Fall Sep-Dec
2015
Hazardous Waste Minimization
Lunch & Learn: October 1, 2015 Activities: Plan to reduce a lab waste Hazardous waste sorting game Tour: Waste-to-Energy Facility
Winter Jan-Mar
2016 Solid Waste Reduction
Lunch & Learn: TBA Activity: Solid waste sorting game Tour: WCS (TBC)
Spring Apr-Jun 2016
Energy Conservation
Lunch & Learn: TBA Activities: Freezer management Plug load reduction challenge Tour: Biofuel Research Demonstration Facility
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Where Does My Waste Go?
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In 2014 95.4 tonnes of waste were generated
Recycled vs. Disposed Waste 2014 (Point Grey Campus)
Waste Disposed
52%
Waste Recycled
48%
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UBC’s Hazardous Waste
Recycled Waste 2014 (Point Grey Campus) Paint 4% Oil
7%
Batteries 23%
Silver recovery
6%
RG1&2 delisted
56%
Solvents 4%
Lab plastic : 3000+ containers Styrofoam: ~140 m3
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UBC’s Hazardous Waste
Waste Disposed 2014 (Point Grey Campus)
Pathological 15%
Biomedical 7%
Sharps 3%
Biohazard RG 1 & 2 2%
Solvents 42%
Chemical 23%
NR Contaminated
solids 8%
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Chemical Waste
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Solvent Distillation Acetone & Methanol
Re-distilled at ESF Back to the labs FREE
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Photographic Waste
Fixer & Developer, treated at ESF
• Ion exchange of fixer for silver removal • Neutralization • Drain disposal
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Oil
Recycled by M&R Environmental for new use
Types of waste oil include: • Automotive lubricating oil • Cutting oil • Fuel oil • Gear oil • Hydraulic oil • Synthetic oil • Emulsion • Vacuum-pump oil
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Paint • Non-industrial paint containers and aerosol paint are
recycled through Product Care • The ReGeneration Paint Program started in
1994,expanded from BC to seven other provinces. • ReGeneration is operated by Product Care Association
(PCA), a federally incorporated not-for-profit company offering product stewardship services across Canada.
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Batteries Recycled through Call2Recycle and Metlex
• As of July 1, 2010, there is a ban on landfilling nickel cadmium, small seal lead acid rechargeable batteries, primary batteries and used cell phones, as well as other small electronics.
• Call2Recycle® is an approved stewardship program for these materials.
• Metalex recycle large automotive lead acid batteries
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Call2Recycle
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Metalex Battery Recycling • Used batteries are broken apart and separated into components. • The lead is smelted and processed into ingots and shipped to a
range of industrial customers. • The plastic is re-used as a raw material in other plastic products. • The acid is reclaimed and shipped to a depot for re-use.
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Delisted RG1&2 Contaminated Solid Waste Sent to the Waste to Energy Facility Burnaby
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Waste To Energy Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=43&v=o0_0ePXlJ44
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Process at the Waste to Energy Facility 1.Waste stored in a
bunker. 2.Waste is
transferred to an extremely high temp. combustion chamber.
3.Heat from the combustion process boils water create steam.
4. & 5. The steam is used directly, or drives a turbine that generates electricity. 6. Electricity is distributed to the local grid. 7. Metal is extracted from the ash for recycling and the ash used in pollution
control 8. The combined ash is disposed of in a landfill 9. All gases are collected, filtered and cleaned before emitted to the atmosphere. 10. Emissions of PM is controlled by a bag house 11. Pollutants and operating parameters monitored to ensure compliance with permit
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Process at the Waste to Energy Facility
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Off Site Disposed Waste
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Sharps
Treated by Stericycle facility in Port Coquitlam in hydroclave. Waste sharps after autoclave and shredding disposed through a landfill in WA
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Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Waste Incinerated by Stericycle in their facilities in Alberta [1,500 km] or Washington state
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Non-contaminated Pathological Waste
Treated by For Ever in Peace, Mission BC • Cremation unit, high temperatures up to 1400-1800 degrees
Fahrenheit. • The resulting ash is disposed through the landfill
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Halogenated and Non-halogenated Solvents Treated by Clean Harbors. Transported by truck to Burnaby, by Rail to Kimball NE 2,300 KM, Solvent incineration process
Kilns are capable of incinerating and destroy up to 99.9999 percent of all hazardous constituents
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Corrosives and Oxidizers
Sumas Environmental, Burnaby Neutralization + water treatment
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Toxic & Reactive Chemicals Sumas, Swan Hill Treatment Center Alberta
• Organic waste (in solid, liquid or sludge
forms) is destroyed in the incinerator at temperatures up to 1200º C
• Acid gases and particulate matter is scrubbed from the resulting flue gases in a multi-stage process
• Bottom ash and flyash are stabilized and placed in secure on-site landfill cells
• Inorganic liquids are chemically neutralized and filtered to remove solids.
• The solid residue is stabilized into an inert compound and placed in secure, on-site landfill cells
• treated liquid effluent is injected 1,800 metres below the ground into a stable geological formation