| This is the first in a series of six emails we’ll be sending over the next couple of weeks providing tips you can incorporate into your everyday business practices to help bring down your costs and hazardous waste generation.
One way to reduce your environmental impact would be to substitute less hazardous inputs. For example, metal finishing shops are switching from hexavalent chromium to less toxic formulations such as cobalt-phosphorous based coating and trivalent chromium. Learn about the development of less hazardous non-metal coatings, like graphene (opens as a PDF).
Remember, not all of the replacement alternatives are considered less hazardous. If you need assistance in selecting your greener options, check out EPA’s Safer Chemical Ingredients List and this online tool to assist with finding greener surface solutions for many industrial applications.
Did You Know?
Tiny bubbles and aqueous-based solutions can lift contaminants off part surfaces, even those with irregular shapes. Learn how the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute is working with precision parts manufacturers to implement a new technology – Vacuum Cycle Nucleation (opens as a PDF), a cleaning method that does not require toxics! |
