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Just a Few Words About Waste

Just a Few Words About Waste. Georgia Tech Environmental Health and Safety. Waste- The Basic Rules. Waste containers must be compatible with the waste (no acid in metal cans) Waste containers must be in secondary containment s/a drum pallet or plastic bin

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Just a Few Words About Waste

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  1. Just a Few Words About Waste Georgia Tech Environmental Health and Safety

  2. Waste- The Basic Rules • Waste containers must be compatible with the waste (no acid in metal cans) • Waste containers must be in secondary containment s/a drum pallet or plastic bin • Waste containers must be labeled w/ at least the name of the chemical(s) and approximate percentages from the time you start adding the waste • Unless you are physically standing in front of the container adding waste, the container must be capped.

  3. COMPATIBLE CONTAINERS • Acids Corrode Metal • HF Eats Glass • Heat and Time Degrade Plastic • http://www.labsafety.com/refinfo/ezfacts/ezf164.htm • Consider Residuals in Reused Containers • Insure all Waste is Compatible

  4. CONTAINER DRUTHERS • NOTHING OVER 5 GAL/20 LT WITHOUT COORDINATION. • SECONDARY CONTAINMENT • SEGREGATE STREAMS

  5. CONTAINER CLOSURE

  6. What Qualifies as “Waste”? • Anything you don’t want anymore • Anything that has been abandoned in place • Old/dusty bottles, obviously not used in a while • Multiple open bottles of the same chemical • Anything that you can’t justify having a use for (left overs, over bought, bought for a project long since completed)

  7. This is a problem • This will result in an Notice of Violation and is fine-able unless you can justify it to the inspector s/a • If these all belong to different groups in your lab- label them as such!

  8. Things which are obviously old and unused will result in an NOV

  9. Waste Organic Solvents- • Bottle it! Use Chematix or call 4-6224 for a waste pick up • Discard bottle by allowing the residue to evaporate off in the hood then deface and discard into glass trash lid off (previous inspectors have mis-interpreted lidded containers as attempts to discard chemicals in the trash) • Glass trash boxes must be taken to the dumpster by you

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  11. Waste Acids & Bases • Bottle it! • Bottle must be triple rinsed • Rinsate may go down the drain • Deface the bottle • Discard (uncapped) into glass trash

  12. Waste Highly Hazardous (P-list) • Bottle it! • Empty stock container is hazardous- treat as hazardous waste and call for pick up • Check www.safety.gatech.edu for the “highly hazardous” list to see what qualifies

  13. While We Are on the Subject- • Please remember that materials you use to clean up chemical spills (paper towels, sorbent materials) are chemical waste and need to be bagged and removed as chemical waste. Do not put these materials out for the custodians to remove

  14. Sharps- Another kind of hazard • Needles, razor blades, broken glass, broken wafers • MUST go into an appropriate disposal container- not the trash!

  15. Please Post in the Lab FOR WASTE PICK UP OR HELP WITH NON-EMERGENCY SPILLS CALL GT EH&S at 4-6224 Allow 3 days for pick up For Emergencies call GT Police at 4-2500

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