Alternative Waste Management Review

If you’re not managing your hazardous and solid wastes for maximum benefit, there are many legitimate waste management alternatives available under the RCRA regulatory framework to bring maximum benefit to a facility. These alternatives can be employed in lieu of solid and hazardous waste on-site or off-site treatment and disposal, including:

.Raw material substitution    
.Solvent re-use
.Commercial boiler fuel
.On-site treatment, etc.

Let Focus assist you in implementing our Alternative Management Review (AMR) program at your facility to identify these opportunities. Focus personnel have extensive hands-on experience with chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and TSDF operations and facilities. This allows us to integrate with an organization to develop innovative strategies and solutions on a waste stream by waste stream basis.

The AMR program was originally developed as a tactical method to implement a facility’s Waste Minimization Strategy. As the AMR program evolved, it has also been employed in product lifecycle analyses as well as product line and facility viability assessments.

In its most elementary form, the AMR involves reviewing the waste streams generated by a facility and determining whether those materials can be utilized in alternative applications. Other compliance and cost saving opportunities are also identified, such as ensuring proper waste classification, reducing waste sampling and analysis, identifying alternative disposal options, etc.

In more complex AMR implementation scenarios, Focus personnel have worked back through a process to identify the “point of generation” of each waste stream, recommended process changes to reduce waste generation (both equipment and raw materials), and identified waste management alternatives such as on-site treatment options or variance requests.

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Environmental Benefits

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Community Relations Benefits

Focus has been very successful in identifying alternative management opportunities at various types of manufacturing facilities. AMR implementation by Focus personnel can not only benefit a facility’s bottom line, but can also assist in maintaining regulatory compliance.