why your current hazardous waste disposal strategy is costing you more

Why Your Current Hazardous

Waste Disposal Strategy Is

Costing You More

Uncovering Opportunities to Save Time and Money

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Meet Your Presenter

Eric Feroldi

Account Manger-Industrial

eferoldi@triumvirate,com

M-(401)632-8585

• 8 years environmental compliance experience/

providing proven solutions to environmental issues

• B.S. Environmental Science from URI

Our Key Message

How to use regulations and waste

minimization options to improve your waste

transportation/disposal process and to

achieve organizational goals.

Who Is This For?

Firms looking to minimize waste generation

Current provider does not offer waste

minimization options

Firms looking to reduce waste disposal costs

Transportation costs make up the bulk of your current invoice

Firms looking for recycling and sustainability options

Current providers do not have recycling

options

Poll Question

What is your greatest

challenge when it comes

to disposing of your

hazardous waste?

What Will You Learn?

• How to reduce your overall

transportation costs

• How to set up a storage area

• How a waste minimization assessment

leads to more disposal options

• How to leverage compliance and waste

tracking software to increase

organization and efficiency

This Is Why We’re DifferentWhat Others

Say

Ship out waste as soon as it is generated

Mixing wastes will reduce the number of waste streams generated

The “burn it” idea is best

What We Say Instead

Proper storage and segregation will reduce the need to ship more frequently which saves time

and money

Co-mingled waste streams often have more than one hazard type, which makes waste more

costly to dispose of and reduces recyclability

Having multiple outlets for waste can lower costs, treatment or re-use of wastes; offer

viable low cost solutions

AgendaUsing Regulations to Your Advantage

Waste Minimization and Recycling Options

Compliance and Waste Tracking Software

Case Studies

Summary/Q&A

• Regulations allow for storage

options – use them to your

advantage

• While they may seem strict

and daunting, regulations can

help you reduce waste

disposal costs and improve

logistical efforts

Background on

Regulations

Current regulations for small

quantity generators allow for

<2,200 pounds generated

per month

Background on

Regulations

“I don’t want to

go over the

waste limit

for SQG”

Using Regulations

to Your Advantage

• The common misconception is that you

can only ship 2,200 pounds a month to

remain a small quantity generator

• In actuality, you can only produce 2,200

pounds of hazardous waste a month (or

2.2 pounds of P-listed waste)

• Regulations for a SQG allow for 180

day storage limit, so essentially you can

ship out 13,200 pounds of Hazardous

waste and remain in the SQG category

Setting Up a Storage Area• Any area of your facility can be used to

store hazardous waste

• Delineation tape or fencing can be

placed anywhere in a facility

• Required signage can be posted

• Spill decks and other spill

countermeasures can be installed

• Alternatives are outdoor storage areas

• Spill prevention and ventilation are

already installed

Reduce Your Transportation

Costs by Storing Waste Longer• By storing your waste longer as the regulations

allow, you reduce the number of times a truck

is coming to your facility

• Each pickup often has a pickup fee, fuel

surcharge, insurance surcharge, and driver

time associated with it

• If you have the ability to find a storage area

within your facility, and can store waste longer,

the overall cost per drum will decrease as well

Real-World Example

You produce different waste streams at various intervals, but

you usually have a drum ready for disposal at a rate of

about one per week.

Option 1:

• When a drum of waste is full, you call for a pickup of the

one drum

• The truck comes for the drum, you are invoiced for the

trans, surcharges, driver time and the drum

Real-World Example

Let’s say that same drum is full and ready for pickup.

Option 2:

• Instead of calling for disposal, you take the drum to the storage

area, label and date the drum, and store it!

• Knowing your generator status, you know you have 180 days to hold

on to the drum (or 6 months)

• You also have a new area for drum storage that can hold the drums

• You have effectively reduced your pickups, invoices and charges

from 24 in that time period down to 1!




Case Studies

Summary/Q&A

What Is a Waste

Minimization Assessment?

• An analysis of every waste stream

produced

• Waste is followed through its entire

journey, both upstream and downstream

• The goal is to identify different waste

options and whether co-mingled waste

can be separated for more efficient and

less costly disposal

• By completing a waste minimization

assessment you can identify how each

waste is generated, collected, stored and

shipped

Conducting a Waste

Minimization Assessment

Start by answering these questions:

• Do you have multiple streams that can be

comingled?

• Are you comingling waste as a space

saving/cost saving purposes?

• Are you concerned about material thrown into

the dumpster?

Review your MSDS/SDS for chemical compatibility

Speak with your hazardous/non-hazardous waste

service provider to see if they offer this service

Waste Minimization and

Recycling OptionsThe overall goal of this type of assessment is to identify

materials that can be re-used, reclaimed and/or recycled.

Modern technology has multiple outlets for waste

streams that can be reused/recycled.

Examples of waste streams for reclaim/recycle are:

1) Oils

2) Plastic materials

3) Solvents

4) Bio-Waste

5) Solid grit material (Sand blasting, vibratory, etc..)

6) Metals/E-Waste




Case Studies

Summary/Q&A

• Manifests, LDRs and packing slips can be

uploaded into the software and tracked through its

waste disposal journey

• Software provides a calendar with dates, i.e.

when manifests are due to the state or other local

authorities

• If you have not received a manifest from the end

facility, the software alerts you and you can reach

out for a signed copy

• You can also upload inspection sheets for MAA

and SAA locations and track compliance and

other regulation related issues

Why Use Software?

Software Benefits

• Most software offers easy input of related

forms and documents

• PDF and Microsoft documents can be

directly uploaded and manifests and other

shipping documents can be scanned

directly in as well

• Each document or manifest uploaded is

assigned specific dates for tracking and

compliance, and the software is very easily

navigated

Example

There are many software

options out there – Triumvirate

developed its own system

called ADVISE.

ADVISE

Inspections

Manifests/

Profiles

Inventory

Documents

Messages

Compliance Calendar

Manifests

Compliance Calendar




Case Studies

Summary/Q&A

Case Study #1 • A weapons manufacturer was sending sand blasting and

vibratory grit to a local landfill

• After a waste minimization audit, the material was shifted to a

reuse which lowered disposal costs and over 200 tons of

material was removed from going to a landfill

• This brought recycling and sustainability goals to fruition for

the firm

Case Study #2

• A plastics manufacturer was sending waste purge plastic

material to landfill as the material could not be recycled

through traditional recycling outlets, i.e. single stream

recycling

• A waste minimization audit outlined a segregation option for

the plastic and opened up multiple recycling options, such as

reuse in the plastic lumber industry and reground/mixed with

virgin product

Case Study #3

• A contract manufacturer using different solvents completed a waste

minimization audit

• It was found that all the solvent waste was very pure, but being co-

mingled into drums

• By segregating out different solvent waste streams, 3 of the 4

solvents were fully reclaimed and waste costs were cut by 78%!




Case Studies

Summary/Q&A

Our Key Message

How to use regulations and waste

minimization options to improve your waste

transportation/disposal process and to

achieve organizational goals.

SummaryRegulations allow for storage options – use

them to your advantage

Waste minimization and recycling options help to reduce overall costs and help your

organization improve sustainability numbers

Compliance and waste tracking software can improve efficiency, save time and eliminate

confusion

QUESTIONS?

Thank You For Attending!You Will Receive:

• A recording of this presentation and a copy

of this presentation

• A link to a short survey

• An offer to help ensure that your waste

program is fully optimized

Eric Feroldi

[email protected]

(401)632-8585

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