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Tips to Reduce Chemical Waste

The reduction of chemical waste is important for several reasons, including the enabling of optimum efficiency of resource usage, minimizing all of the negative impacts on health – both to the environment and to people, eliminating negative associations that stem from chemical waste, and reducing the need for disposal, which the disposal process can sometimes lead to chemical spills and leaks. The following will provide tips on how to best reduce chemical waste, which, if followed systematically, can eliminate many of the hazards that stem from chemical waste.

Chemical product or chemical processing substitution: Because of watchdog companies like Ecolink, chemical substitutions are available that replace dangerous chemical solvents that are used for parts cleaning and degreasing with eco friendly, green alternative chemicals that eliminate all known threats associated with older chemical ingredients, but will still clean and degrease an industrial part as well as any chemical solvent. In addition, industrial businesses should take a look at the cleaning and degreasing process it has in place for the cleaning and degreasing of industrial components. Much more efficient processes are available that eliminate the chemical waste issue regularly seen with older cleaning and degreasing processes. Please evaluate how much chemical waste your current cleaning and degreasing process is producing, and allow a company like Ecolink to help your business transition to a much safer cleaning and degreasing process that eliminates chemical waste.

Incorporate chemical recycling methods: Mentioned in the previous tip is the ability to substitute a dangerous chemical cleaning process with a better version. Updated methods of chemical cleaning and degreasing include the ability to capture, reclaim, and reuse chemical solvents during the cleaning process. By doing so, this type of recycling process neutralizes the dangers of chemical waste by altogether eliminating any chance of chemical wasting. By recycling chemical solvents, the solution can be used for future cleaning and degreasing processes.

Chemical segregation: Industrial businesses should never allow hazardous chemical to come anywhere near non hazardous chemical. Doing so could corrupt the non hazardous chemical, because any mixing of these chemicals will always make the non hazardous chemical into a hazardous chemical. First, allow Ecolink to evaluate your chemicals in order to find safer alternatives, so your business does not even need to have harmful chemical anywhere on the premises. And, if for whatever reason hazardous chemical must be kept on the grounds, implements methods of chemical segregation that ensures hazardous chemicals can never be mixed into non hazardous chemicals.

Proper housekeeping conducted in your industrial facility: Industrial organizations that use chemicals for parts cleaning and degreasing purposes should always maintain a precise inventory of its chemicals. Avoid purchasing in bulk volumes, and prevent long stays of unused chemical solvents in your facility. Both of these scenarios have proven to increase the likelihood of chemical waste because industrial businesses with too much chemical cleaning product and solvents that have been sitting in a warehouse too long will decide to use too much product because it has too much in supply.

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