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Clean Sweeps Program and Rehab the Kansas Lab

Clean Sweeps Program and Rehab the Kansas Lab. Maria Morey, KDHE Barb Johnson, KSU. Overview. Experience with Kansas high school clean sweep program Proposed community college chemical clean sweep program PPI rehab the Kansas lab program and assistance for community colleges.

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Clean Sweeps Program and Rehab the Kansas Lab

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  1. Clean Sweeps Programand Rehab the Kansas Lab Maria Morey, KDHE Barb Johnson, KSU

  2. Overview • Experience with Kansas high school clean sweep program • Proposed community college chemical clean sweep program • PPI rehab the Kansas lab program and assistance for community colleges

  3. School Lab Sweep Program • Goal • Remove unwanted or obsolete chemicals from secondary schools • Faded labels, unknowns • Prevent accidents, spills, exposure to hazardous substances

  4. School Lab Sweep Program • Agreement form • Chemical inventory • KDHE review • School segregates chemicals • KDHE collects solid waste • State contractor collects hazardous waste

  5. School Lab Sweep Program • 245 schools • 17,300 containers hazardous waste • Approximately 23,000 lbs • Program completion soon

  6. Rehab the Lab Kansas Style • KSU Pollution Prevention Institute • EPA Region 7 P2 grant • College science laboratories • PBT focus • Case studies fact sheet - www.sbeap.org/ppi/publications/Rehab_KS_lab.pdf • KDHE clean out funds

  7. Rehab the Kansas Lab • Assist Kansas college science laboratories with • identification, • reduction, and • elimination of PBTs and high-risk chemicals. • Assist with multi-media environmental regs compliance • Compliance and P2 checklist www.sbeap.org/ppi/publications/Campus_Checklist.pdf

  8. Rehab the Kansas Lab • Identification • PBTs (chemicals & Hg-containing devices) • www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/ minimize/chemlist.htm • High-risk chemicals • www.govlink.org/hazwaste/publications/ highrisktable.pdf • http://cheminfonet.org/high.htm

  9. Rehab the Kansas Lab • Reduction • Help prioritize which chemicals to rid first, if can’t afford to do all at once • Help with determining disposal method • Provide micro-chemistry resources • Quantify amounts reduced

  10. Rehab the Kansas Lab • Elimination • Encourage complete elimination of: • mercury and mercury compounds • mercury-containing devices • other PBTs • high-risk chemicals • Provide green-chemistry resources • Discuss future purchasing procedures • Quantify amounts eliminated

  11. Rehab the Kansas Lab • PPI results so far • On-site visits to ten colleges • Inventories from four colleges • Total mercury identified = 193 lbs • Total PBTs identified = 393 lbs • Total high-risk chemicals = 2111 lbs

  12. Rehab the Kansas Lab • Additional items • Educational teleconferences this fall • Clean out details • Top environmental compliance issues • PBTs • Green chemistry • Suggestions?

  13. Rehab the Kansas Lab • Additional items • Kansas College Chemistry Teacher’s Conference (KCCTC) • March 31 - April 1 • Cowley County Community College • Arkansas City, KS • Call for papers due March 10

  14. Rehab the Kansas Lab-contacts • PPI environmental hotline 800-578-8898 Barb (barblj@k-state.edu) Nancy (nlarson@ksu.edu) www.sbeap.org • Maria Morey, KDHE (MMorey@kdhe.state.ks.us) 785-296-1611

  15. Mercury Sources

  16. Mercury Sources

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