Pollution prevention and waste minimization in laboratories / edited by Peter A. Reinhardt, K. Leigh Leonard and Peter C. Ashbrook.
Contributor(s): Reinhardt, Peter A
| Leonard, K. Leigh | Ashbrook, Peter C.
Material type: 
BookPublisher: Boca Raton : Lewis Publishers, 1996Description: 480 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0873719751 .Subject(s): Laboratories -- Waste disposal | Pollution | Waste minimizationDDC classification: 628.42 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 628.42 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00017995 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This nuts and bolts book addresses specific waste minimization and pollution prevention techniques that work in specific types of laboratories for specific wastestreams. Concepts in the book may be directly applied to laboratory operations. In addition, the book illustrates other approaches to laboratory pollution prevention, such as reducing wastewater discharges and fume hood emissions. A wide range of waste types, including hazardous, infectious, medical, PCB, and radioactive, are discussed.
This book helps you to develop a broad, institutional framework to plan and set priorities for pollution prevention. It responds to your laboratory's critical need to have readily available techniques and concepts for waste minimization and pollution prevention.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1: Introduction and overview -- Why pollution prevention? / K. Leigh Leonard -- A survey of laboratory waste management and minimization practices / K. Leigh Leonard and Peter A. Reinhardt -- Investigating waste minimization possibilities / Cynthia Klein-Banai -- The law on waste minimization in laboratories / Jennifer L. Hernandez -- Part 2: Effecting pollution prevention and waste minimization -- Planning and development of a model waste minimization program / Robert Charbonneau -- Institutional policy, commitment and support / Fay M. Thompson -- Overcoming impediments to waste minimization / Peter A. Reinhardt -- Part 3: Approaches by media, source and waste type -- Management of laboratory air emissions / Ralph Stuart and Milly Archer -- Management of laboratory effluents to the sanitary sewer / Lloyd Wundrock and Jeff Christensen -- Pollution prevention in clinical laboratories / Richard J. Vetter, John F. O'Brien and Gregory D. Smith -- Minimization of waste generation in medical laboratories / Judith G. Gordan and Gerald A. Denys -- Minimization of low-level radioactive wastes from laboratories / Peter C. Ashbrook, John Brandon and Hector Mandel -- Part 4: What individual laboratories can do -- The microscale chemistry laboratory / Ronald M. Pike, Zvi Szafran and Mono M. Singh -- At the lab bench: Finding the right balance in source separation / Peter A. Reinhardt -- Solvent recycling by spinning band distillation: theory, equipment and limitations / John A. Mangravite and Roger R. Roark, Jr. -- Chemical treatment methods to minimize waste / Margaret-Ann Armour -- Part 5: What organizations can do -- Recruiting vendors to achieve waste minimization and pollution prevention / K. Leigh Leonard -- Surplus chemical exchange: Successes and potential / Jeff Christensen -- Cost savings and volume reduction by commingling wastes / Peter C. Ashbrook -- Part 6: Case studies and applications -- Applications for waste solvent recovery using spinning band distillation / John A. Mangravite, Roger R. Roark Jr., Roger R. Roark Sr. and Paul VanTriest -- The implementation of waste minimization strategies in a biotechnology research and development laboratory / Richard A. Senn -- Waste minimization and management at 3M R&D/Laboratories / Linda J. Tanner -- Implementation of waste mimimization strategies / Bruce D. Backus -- Part 7: Conclusion -- Thoughts on the future of pollution prevention in the laboratory / Peter C. Ashbrook.