A United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) database
(click here to go to the database) provides the quantities of chemical wastes generated
by US chemical companies (and companies in other sectors). Although the database is primarily intended
to support EPA’s goals of excellent US environmental qualities, the database
can also show how individual companies are handling individual chemical wastes.
For example, once a chemical is selected from a list of hundreds
of chemicals, individual chemical companies disposing of that chemical can be
found. For the individual chemical company,
various disposal methods used by the company, along with quantities disposed
of, are provided.
It seems to me that this information on individual companies
can be useful for such reasons as the following:
1. A company needing
to dispose of a chemical can determine how other companies are disposing of
that chemical;
2. An assessment can
be make of the attributes of a company’s disposal program (e.g. cost effectiveness
inferences, e.g. recovery versus non-recovery; environmental desirability, e.g.
the methods of disposal; and total wastes, data which is given; and
3. Insights into the identities
and quantities of company productions.
4. Process operations management principles identify waste, especially inventory waste, as critical to contend with in improving process operations. Details at this EPA database might be helpful in decreasing chemical company waste.
4. Process operations management principles identify waste, especially inventory waste, as critical to contend with in improving process operations. Details at this EPA database might be helpful in decreasing chemical company waste.
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