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Posted By Byron Rodgers
I'm helping a company that, among other things, spray-paints metal components and just chucks the tins in the scrap metal and swarf skip at the end of the day.
The tins have some small amount of paint residue left in them (perhaps a tablespoonful) and the paint contains xylene. Am I right in thinking this is special waste and should be treated as such?
If you need more details of the paint, I have it.
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Posted By Robert K Lewis
Allow the paint to cure and it is no longer hazardous waste, unless it contains chromates or similar which are in themselves hazardous materials.
Bob
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Posted By Alexander Falconer
Working for a previous employer, I had a similar problem.
Solvent based paints, - allowing them to cure exposes solvents to the atmosphere, and introduces additional risk (environmental)
Waste company stated, tins to be disposed of, sealed, as special waste (generated more money for them)
After a review of operations and ££££'s being spent on waste disposal
Eventual solution was to change over to water based paints, allow to cure and dispose as general waste
Powder paints were a total nightmare, but thats another story
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Posted By Dave Adams CMIOSH
Agree totally with the previous statements regarding leaving the material to cure. But, also you need to ensure that any hazard warning labels are either obliterated or removed. If any labels are visible it is possible that this may cause problems with the disposal site (especially if the EA is watching them that day) as the labels indicate hazardous waste when it obviously is not. In some instances loads have been returned.
Dave
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