The Paint and Surface Coating Industries: Surface Stripping
To keep the nation's fleet of military aircraft painted requires thousand of gallons of paint and primer, and a year-round effort. At military facilities like Hill Air Force Base, the past use of hazardous liquid solvents to remove old paint left l...
The Food and Agriculture Industries: Sugar Production Equipment and Waste Streams
The ongoing maintenance of equipment and machines essential to the sugar production process can generate waste streams that require treatment. For example, some petroleum-based solvents leach hazardous metals, like chrome or lead, out of equipment ...
Pollution Prevention: Clearing the Air: Case Study: Alternative Dry Cleaning Solvents
Like many other neighborhood businesses, such as the local bakery, auto body shop and photo finishing lab, dry cleaners nearly always have fewer than 20 employees. And yet, like these other small businesses, dry cleaners generate significant toxic ...
Pollution Prevention: Bridging Troubled Water: The Screen Printing Industry
Screen printing, the process that creates T-shirt art and signage, can produce waste streams that are harmful to water quality. In the past, many solvents used to clean and reclaim screens were simply washed down the drain. But by using ultra viol...