APS Industrial Waste

Advanced Pyrolysis Systems - Industrial Waste

Industrial Waste, which may be solid, liquid or gas held in containers, is divided into hazardous or non-hazardous waste.

Hazardous Waste may result from manufacturing or other industrial processes. Certain commercial products, such as
cleaning fluids, paints or pesticides that are discarded by commercial establishments or individuals also can be defined
as hazardous wastes. Wastes determined to be hazardous are regulated by hazardous waste rules established pursuant
to the RCRA's subtitle C requirements.

In the United States, the amount of hazardous waste generated by manufacturing industries in the country has increased
from an estimated 4.5 million tons annually after WWII, to some 57 million tons by 1975. By the 1990's this total shot up to approximately 265 million tons, although much of this increase was due to a rule change which required vast amounts of wastewater contaminated with toxins to be reported as hazardous waste in 1997, the EPA estimated that total hazardous wastes generated by industrial plants total some 60 million tons, not including wastewater.

These wastes are generated at every stage in the production, use, and disposal of manufactured products. Thus, the introduction of many new products for the home and office - computers and computer papers, drugs, textiles, paints and dyes, plastics, - also introduced hazardous wastes - including toxic chemicals - into the environment.

The IES Advanced Pyrolytic System can effectively process all industrial waste materials, to include hazardous and non-hazardous. The IES process allows for the safe disposal of the waste with no harmful emissions to the environment.

Non-hazardous industrial wastes are those that do not meet the EPAs definition of hazardous waste, and are not municipal wastes.*

* Note:
Municipal waste includes residential, commercial and institutional waste, as well as a small percentage of non-hazardous industrial waste and construction debris.