Green Labs Program Hazardous Waste Minimization

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1 Hazardous Waste Minimization Introduction: Noga Levit, RMS Director Environmental Services

2 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

3 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

4 Get Involved 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 Spring Apr-Jun 2016 Solid Waste Reduction Energy Conservation Lunch & Learn: TBA Activity: Solid waste sorting game Tour: WCS (TBC) Lunch & Learn: TBA Activities: Freezer management Plug load reduction challenge Tour: Biofuel Research Demonstration Facility

5 Where Does My Waste Go?

6 Recycled vs. Disposed Waste 2014 (Point Grey Campus) In tonnes of waste were generated Waste Recycled 48% Waste Disposed 52%

7 UBC s Hazardous Waste Recycled Waste 2014 (Point Grey Campus) Solvents 4% Paint 4% Oil 7% Batteries 23% RG1&2 delisted 56% Silver recovery 6% Lab plastic : containers Styrofoam: ~140 m 3

8 Solvents 42% Green Labs Program UBC s Hazardous Waste Waste Disposed 2014 (Point Grey Campus) Chemical 23% NR Contaminated solids 8% Pathological 15% Biomedical 7% Sharps 3% Biohazard RG 1 & 2 2%

9 Chemical Waste

10 Solvent Distillation Acetone & Methanol Re-distilled at ESF Back to the labs FREE

11 Photographic Waste Fixer & Developer, treated at ESF Ion exchange of fixer for silver removal Neutralization Drain disposal

12 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

13 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.

14 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

15 Call2Recycle

16 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.

17 Delisted RG1&2 Contaminated Solid Waste Sent to the Waste to Energy Facility Burnaby

18 Waste To Energy Video

19 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

20 Process at the Waste to Energy Facility

21 Off Site Disposed Waste

22 Sharps Treated by Stericycle facility in Port Coquitlam in hydroclave. Waste sharps after autoclave and shredding disposed through a landfill in WA

23 Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Waste Incinerated by Stericycle in their facilities in Alberta [1,500 km] or Washington state

24 Non-contaminated Pathological Waste Treated by For Ever in Peace, Mission BC Cremation unit, high temperatures up to degrees Fahrenheit. The resulting ash is disposed through the landfill

25 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 percent of all hazardous constituents

26 Corrosives and Oxidizers Sumas Environmental, Burnaby Neutralization + water treatment

27 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