STORAGE/DISPOSAL > Overview

As you probably know, your campus power plant produces a variety of non-combustion and combustion waste streams that, depending on their composition, are either non-hazardous or hazardous. Examples of common waste streams at a power generating facility may include: office-related wastes (e.g., paper, plastics, etc.), used oils, spent solvents, spent aerosol cans, spent fluorescent light bulbs, contact and non-contact cooling water, analytical laboratory wastes, metal cleaning wastes from boiler clean outs, cooling tower sludge, and bottom ash and fly ash from the burning of fossil fuels in boilers.

Continue on in this EVC and learn about requirements for waste minimisation planning, to which recycling practices may play an important role.