Trends Under New Jersey

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Trends Under New Jerseys Pollution Prevention Act

• Alan Bookman
• Office of Pollution Prevention
• Right to Know
• NJDEP
• September 29, 2005
• 2005 Northeast Environmental Summit
• Providence, Rhode Island

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New Jersey Pollution Prevention Act

• Signed into law August 1991
• Adopted the concept of Nonproduct Output (NPO) as
  all hazardous substances or wastes generated
  prior to storage, recycling, treatment, control
  or disposal that are not intended for use as a
  product

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New Jersey Pollution Prevention Act

• Goal was to reduce hazardous substance NPO
  generation by 50 achieve a significant
  reduction in use over the next five years,
  calculated on the basis of 1987 amounts
• Covered all facilities required to submit TRI
  Forms
• SICs 26,28,30,33 and 34 required to prepare P2
  plans by 7/1/94 26-Paper and Allied Products
  28-Chemicals and Allied Products 30-Rubber and
  Miscellaneous Plastic Products 33- Primary Metal
  Products 34 Fabricated Metal Products

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Planning process is key

• Identification of processes and sources at the
  facility is the first step in a detailed process
  audit and materials accounting of current
  practices described in the P2 Plan.

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New Jersey Worker and Community Right to Know Act

• Signed into law August 1983
• Required facilities to report detailed materials
  balance information (quantity produced, brought
  on site, consumed, shipped off site as or in
  product, environmental releases)
• All TRI reporters must also submit the NJ Release
  and Pollution Prevention Report

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Pollution Prevention

• Changes in production technologies, raw materials
  or products that result in the reduction of the
  demand for hazardous substances per unit of
  product manufactured and the creation of
  hazardous products or Nonproduct Output (NPO)

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Definition of NPO (NJ P2 rule)

• NPO Recycled out of process and reused on site
  Destroyed through treatment on site Destroyed
  through energy recovery on site Stack air
  emissions Fugitive air emissions POTW
  discharges Surface water discharges
  Groundwater discharges On-site land disposal
  Off-site transfers Ending inventory (as NPO) -
  Beginning inventory (as NPO)

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Industrial Pollution Prevention Trends in New
Jersey

• December 1996
• Michael Aucott, Debra Wachpress, Jeanne Herb

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Findings

• Extrapolating back to 1987 indicated that it is
  very likely that the Statewide Goal of 50
  reduction for NPO was achieved
• Compliance with NJ P2 rules was about 85

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Trends Report 1994-2001

• Bill Lowry
• Steve Anderson
• Ken Ratzman
• Fu Grand Lin
• Andy Opperman

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Trends Report 1994-2001

• Used Production Index from Form R to adjust for
  production
• PI Quantity of Products from Current Year/
  Quantity of Products from Previous Year
• Weighted average (by Use) of all production
  indices
• Used Core original chemicals and facilities

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On-Site Releases - Stack and Fugitive Air,
Surface Water, Groundwater, On-site Land
Disposal On-Site Management - Recycled and Reused
On Site, Destroyed On Site, Energy Recovery On
Site Off-Site Transfers - Total Waste Transferred
Off Site, includes POTW Discharges
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NPO for Five SICs
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Trends 1994 - 2004(Unadjusted for Production)
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Use Consumed Shipped as or in product NPO
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USE

• Use by petroleum refineries represents 60-78 of
  the total Use
• If the top ten facilities were excluded from the
  analysis, the total Use decreased by about 10
• Industries such as refineries and metal
  fabrication account for over 90 of toxics in
  products

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Findings from 2004 report

• Overall, NJ facilities achieved substantial
  reductions statewide for NPO
• Adjusted for production, NPO fell 33
• Adjusted levels of Use of the hazardous chemicals
  only decreased by 2
• Trends in Use were driven by a few large
  facilities

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Cabinet ConfidentialTom Natan, National
Environmental Trust2004

• For every pound of neurotoxins, carcinogens or
  reproductive or developmental toxins that
  facilities reported as released to air, water or
  land, another 42 pounds of these chemicals were
  found in the same type of products used in the
  home
• A substantial portion of the chemicals found in
  products were not intended to be part of those
  products

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2005 Activities

• NJDEP is conducting research to identify
  successful P2 techniques
• The NJ Center for Manufacturing Excellence at
  Rutgers has a non-regulatory audit program
  offering suggestions to industry and is
  developing case studies
• New P2 Rule requires 5 closure on materials
  balance mandatory electronic submission of P2
  Plan Summaries

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1994-2001 Trends Report

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