Clean Sweeps Program and Rehab the Kansas Lab

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Clean Sweeps Programand Rehab the Kansas Lab

• Maria Morey, KDHE
• Barb Johnson, KSU

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Overview

• Experience with Kansas high school clean sweep
  program
• Proposed community college chemical clean sweep
  program
• PPI rehab the Kansas lab program and assistance
  for community colleges

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School Lab Sweep Program

• Goal
• Remove unwanted or obsolete chemicals from
  secondary schools
• Faded labels, unknowns
• Prevent accidents, spills, exposure to hazardous
  substances

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School Lab Sweep Program

• Agreement form
• Chemical inventory
• KDHE review
• School segregates chemicals
• KDHE collects solid waste
• State contractor collects hazardous waste

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School Lab Sweep Program

• 245 schools
• 17,300 containers hazardous waste
• Approximately 23,000 lbs
• Program completion soon

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Rehab the Lab Kansas Style

• KSU Pollution Prevention Institute
• EPA Region 7 P2 grant
• College science laboratories
• PBT focus
• Case studies fact sheet - www.sbeap.org/ppi/public
  ations/Rehab_KS_lab.pdf
• KDHE clean out funds

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Rehab the Kansas Lab

• Assist Kansas college science laboratories with
• identification,
• reduction, and
• elimination
• of PBTs and high-risk chemicals.
• Assist with multi-media environmental regs
  compliance
• Compliance and P2 checklist
• www.sbeap.org/ppi/publications/Campus_Checklist.p
  df

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Rehab the Kansas Lab

• Identification
• PBTs (chemicals Hg-containing devices)
• www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/
• minimize/chemlist.htm
• High-risk chemicals
• www.govlink.org/hazwaste/publications/
• highrisktable.pdf
• http//cheminfonet.org/high.htm

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Rehab the Kansas Lab

• Reduction
• Help prioritize which chemicals to rid first, if
  cant afford to do all at once
• Help with determining disposal method
• Provide micro-chemistry resources
• Quantify amounts reduced

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Rehab the Kansas Lab

• Elimination
• Encourage complete elimination of
• mercury and mercury compounds
• mercury-containing devices
• other PBTs
• high-risk chemicals
• Provide green-chemistry resources
• Discuss future purchasing procedures
• Quantify amounts eliminated

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Rehab the Kansas Lab

• PPI results so far
• On-site visits to ten colleges
• Inventories from four colleges
• Total mercury identified 193 lbs
• Total PBTs identified 393 lbs
• Total high-risk chemicals 2111 lbs

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Rehab the Kansas Lab

• Additional items
• Educational teleconferences this fall
• Clean out details
• Top environmental compliance issues
• PBTs
• Green chemistry
• Suggestions?

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Rehab the Kansas Lab

• Additional items
• Kansas College Chemistry Teachers Conference
  (KCCTC)
• March 31 - April 1
• Cowley County Community College
• Arkansas City, KS
• Call for papers due March 10

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Rehab the Kansas Lab-contacts

• PPI environmental hotline
• 800-578-8898
• Barb (barblj_at_k-state.edu)
• Nancy (nlarson_at_ksu.edu)
• www.sbeap.org
• Maria Morey, KDHE
• (MMorey_at_kdhe.state.ks.us)
• 785-296-1611

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Mercury Sources
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Mercury Sources