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How Do You Dispose of Workplace Spills and Contaminated Waste?

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Whether it’s waste oil, timber, metals, landfill gas, paper, cardboard, plastics, green waste or organic food matter, waste disposal Sydney find a way to give it a second chance at life. Obviously, this can be a leading question. It really depends upon what the waste product is, where you are and, to a degree, what resources you have at your fingertips for the disposal. Whilst this sounds a little like a cop-out, it is true. Different states and countries have different rules for waste disposal. How Do You Dispose of Workplace Spills and Contaminated Waste?

A very important facet of your waste disposal policy should include the classification of waste. DECC (Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water) or as it is now called Office of Environment and Heritage, sets out the rules for waste classification guidelines through various documents (most of which can be found online). In 2009 Australian authorities moved away from this USEPA (United States EPA) as a basic test method and changed the testing for waste classification and disposal.

USEPA 9095 is actually a test Method and has never been a Standard. It always was the most basic minimum of tests and was included by NSW EPA as an example of a type of test that would be acceptable to prove that liquids will not be re-released under the waste’s own weight. Unfortunately, as it is a Method and not a Standard, anyone can manipulate the test to make their product pass, and many do just that. In 2009 NSW EPA eliminated the stated example, but the requirement for testing remains.

Waste, is not simply waste. The disposal of the different classifications of waste vary according to state laws, local regulations and the environmental authority guidelines. There are, by the Office of Environment & Heritage guidelines, 6 waste classes in use. These are Special waste, liquid waste, hazardous waste, restricted solid waste, general solid waste (putrescible) and general solid waste (non-putrescible).

For now, I will focus on spilled oil or hydrocarbons, and the resultant waste once the spill has been cleaned up. The method of disposal of used absorbant product is based on whether the resulting waste produced from the spill clean-up meets the requirements of General Immobilisation Approval 99/06.

The GIA requires two main things:

1. “Oil absorbent materials for cleaning up spilt Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons C10 – C36 are capable of securely containing more than 100% of their own mass of such hydrocarbons.”

2. “Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons C10 – C36 that are contained within the used oil absorbent materials are immobilised and will not be released as free liquids during handling, transportation and disposal.”

Let’s take a look at floor sweeps. There are several suppliers of floor sweep and spill control equipment in the market today. If the product you are using does not fully encapsulate 100% of its own volume in hydrocarbon, you cannot simply keep on applying more and more absorbent in order to not have any free liquid present in the waste. This is to prevent our landfills from filling up with excessive amounts of sand, dirt or “kitty litter” (as they are filling up too quickly as it is). Thus, this criteria automatically excludes all adsorbents such as the inorganic ‘kitty litter’ products (zeolite, various clays, amorphous silica, DE), sand, dirt and even chunky sawdusts.

Different floor sweeps will vary in their characteristics – what they are made from and how they do what they do. Some may say ‘kitty litter’ or sawdust. Others will be a mixture of ingredients and will be a true floor sweep with greater absorption characteristics and bio-degradability. All these products have a place in a holistic view of spill control and waste disposal, but each may also have different rules for its disposal after use.

Firstly, you need to decide if your waste product, now comprising the spilled oil soaked up inside the floor sweep, is fully encapsulated within the floor sweep (or whatever you used to absorb it). This full encapsulation means that the oil will not ‘leak’ or leach back out of the product. Its disposal can be based on whether the resulting waste produced from the spill clean-up meets the requirements of General Immobilisation Approval 99/06. If it does, then the waste can be discarded as General Solid waste (non-putrescible). If it does not meet GIA 99/06, then the waste must be disposed as Hazardous Waste.

So, I hear you ask, how do you know what product to use that will fully encapsulate the liquid waste and enable easier disposal of your spilled oil waste?

I’m glad you asked. There is a test called the ‘Paint Filter Liquids Test’ that is commonly referred to in the spill control industry. This is a USA test method, and it is used to determine the presence of free liquids in a representative sample of waste. It is referred to by many suppliers of floor sweep to show the high quality of their product. It was also used as a basic test method to enable classification of waste as liquids free. I say ‘was… because in 2009 NSW EPA moved away from this as a test requirement and created Australia’s own testing measures for waste classification and disposal.

If you see a floor sweep company bragging about its compliance with the Paint Filter’s Test, whilst not a negative claim, you should bear in mind that Office of Environment & Heritage have changed the classification rules and the disposal rules for waste. This test is no longer applied in NSW (at least) and it is worth your time to investigate specific instances for waste classification (and disposal). Talk to your local council, state government or a certified waste disposal company for more information on specific waste classifications and disposal.

Warren R Ratliff, from Sydney, Australia, has over twenty years of real time experience within small and medium business in Australia. Over this time the environmental sector has grown, and now working with Chatoyer Environmental enables him to offer his experience within the environmental industry. Through his article and news writing he is able to offer assistance to business and environmental managers to enable them to better understand their responsibilities and offer solutions.

Living in the belief that the environment is worth protecting, Warren focuses on storm water pollution prevention and spill control.

Contact Warren at his email address [email protected] or visit the website http://www.chatoyerenvironmental.com.au to see how environmental protection can assist your business.

+61 458 185 910

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Making Bachelorettes Party A Little More Fun

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Our hens night venues Melbourne include a variety of beverage packages to suit any budget, we offer cocktail deals with a list of tantalising cocktails at $10 to add a touch of class to any function, as well as options to run a bar tab or pay as you go for drinks. Girl’s parties are the most exciting and interesting, much more happening than what boys do. Girls have a lot to do and explore, gossip and have fun. Their idea of having fun for girls are not limited, they find a lot many ways to enjoy a ‘Bachelorette party’. It is actually true that girls are good at organizing parties and making things exciting for themselves.

Girls can have a pocket friendly bachelorette partywith the help of community matrimony, their idea of having fun is more of having a house party with all girls, being funny, quirky and bold. Girls are indeed the most beautiful creation, their main agenda for a party is to look good and outstanding amongst every other girl present in the party. The best thing is to have some drinks, a photo booth, dress up for the best celebration of your singlehood. Bachelorette is often known as ‘Hens Party’, girls decorate the room and plan up a night out with the bride-to-be!

The things that add fun to their party is, it is supposed to be a surprise for the bride-to-be. The girls often organize a slumber party or a pajama party, where they plan a night stay and party all night clicking thousands of selfies. Manage to put up a photo booth, with props and funny captions. Make the bride feel special by getting a tiara or a crown, with sashes of funny tags.

To have a nice party, girls can arrange for a pool party, with a personal space and lots of music and drinks. They can often book a club or a hotel room to hang out with friends and party all night. They play games like treasure hunt, and make the games fun and naughty for the bride. No one can ever think how much girls enjoy, how much their activities and gossips and dancing can be entertaining for them.

Girls can also plan a trip to somewhere nearby beautiful destination, they can shop, booze , dance like crazy and plan up surprises for the bride. That adds to the fun, but keeping in mind the safety issues girls should plan a in house party and when drinking is involved, they should either have a cab booked to move back to their destination after partying or should plan it up at home.

You can decorate the venue and have a themed party. Themed parties are in trend and you can arrange the props and decoration as per the theme decided by the girls. Give expensive and naughty gifts to the bride to add the flavor of fun to the party. Hire a photographer or be one of you can be one as to avoid any manly interference, dress up with the best outfits you have, be the celebrity of the night. You can also ask the groom to send some gifts for the bride to make her feel special.

All these plans and ideas can be executed with the help of community matrimony, which give full event organizers and make your party a great fun with amazing decor, food and entertainment.

Change Your Waste to Energy

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Waste disposal Sydney managed to collect the garbage in the street then they will bring it to a composting site where it is turned into a nutritious soil conditioner. Waste is the issue that is growing the concerns in the County. A huge quantity of waste produced in various forms are being dumped in the natural water bodies and ae polluting the land also. A lot of measures have been taken to curb the problem of waste management in the country. The people in general have also taken various measures to make the country a clean and a green place to live in. proper campaigns have been initiated to make people aware of the problems and educating them about how to make waste a helpful resource for various activities. We are also going to read about some basic facts about composting.

What is composting?

The process pf breaking down the organic matter (food waste) in the presence of natural resources like air, water, microbes and small insects is known as composting. The process of composting makes a product is called compost which is rich in all nutrients that are useful by plants and make the soil more fertile forming an important component and part of healthy soil.

There are four conditions that are majorly required to form a compost they are listed below:

1: Carbon coming out of brown matter is dry leaves etc.

2: Nitrogen coming out of food, coffee ground etc.

3: Water in right amounts

4: Oxygen from air

Here are some easy ways for composting kitchen waste to energy:

1: Separate the edible kitchen waste such as vegetable peels and fruits and small quantities of food not consumed.

2: collect dry matters (organic)such as dry leaves.

3: Put them in an earthen pot with soil and mix some water into it

Now leave the compost for few months and you will find that the waste matter has wonderfully transformed into something good. Same benefits can be seen by composting garden waste also. By segregating, recycling and composting, a family of 4 can reduce their waste from 1000 Kg to less than 100 kg every year. Imagine 90% of all the garbage can be turned into energy.

These can be wonderful sources of natural energy. This can be an initiative towards making India a clean and a green country to live in.