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14.
POLLUTION PREVENTION
14.1.
Pollution prevention encompasses any technique that reduces or eliminates the
quantity of toxicity of waste at the point of generation. Numerous opportunities
for pollution prevention exist in laboratory operation. The USEPA has established
a preferred hierarchy of environmental management techniques that places
pollution as the management option of first choice. Whenever feasible, laboratory
personnel should use pollution prevention techniques to address their waste
generation. When wastes cannot be feasibly reduced at the source, the agency
recommends recycling as the next best option.
14.2.
For information about pollution prevention that may be applicable to laboratories
and research institutions, consult “Less is Better: Laboratory Chemical
Management for Waste Reduction”, available from the American Chemical
Society, Department of Government Relations and Science Policy, 1155 16
th
Street N. W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
15.
WASTE MANAGEMENT
15.1.
The reagents used in this procedure are minimal and are not hazardous with the
exception of the Ascarite and magnesium perchlorate. Due to the small quantity
of Ascarite and magnesium perchlorate used, the spent reagent can be flushed
down the drain with running water.
15.2.
For further information on waste management consult The Waste Management
Manual for Laboratory Personnel, available from the American Chemical Society.
16.
REFERENCES
16.1.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1997. Methods for the Determination of
Chemical Substances in Marine and Estuarine Environmental Samples. Method
440.0. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Washington, D.C.
16.2.
Holme, N.A. and A.D. McIntyre (eds.). 1971. Methods for the Study of Marine
Benthos. International Biome Program. IBP Handbook #16. F.A. Davis Co.,
Philadelphia, PA.
16.3.
Hurd, D.C. and D.W. Spencer (eds). 1991. Marine Particles: Analysis and
Characterization. Geophysical Monograph: 63, American Geophysical Union,
Washington, D.C. 472p.
16.4.
Hirota, J. and J.P. Szyper. 1975. Separation of total particulate carbon into
inorganic and organic components. Limnol and Oceanogr. 20:896-900.
16.5.
Grasshoff, K., M. Ehrhardt and K. Kremlin (eds). 1983. Methods of Seawater
Analysis. Verlag Chemie.
16.6.
Keefe, Carolyn W., The Contribution of Inorganic Compounds to the Particulate
Carbon, Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Suspended Matter and Surface Sediments of
the Chesapeake Bay, Estuaries, Vol. 17, No 1B, pp 122-130, March 1994.