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Re: Thymerasol Filtering
Tim O'Neill (tsoneill@iastate.edu) asked (in part):
> My name is Tim O'Neill and I am a graduate assistant at the
> Industrial Assessment Center at Iowa State University. We are
> currently in the process of performing an audit an animal vaccine
> company in our region and we have come up against a problem which
> involves the disposal of a hazardous chemical.
Tim -
I don't have a company contact, but I recall that in 1995, one of the
applicants for the WA Governor's Award for P2 was a company in
Redmond, WA (area code 425, but you're on your own from there) called
Genetic Systems Technology. One of their major accomplishments in
their P2 program was a fairly lengthy internal investigation which
resulted in a process/method for minimizing Thymerasol use and
disposal -- I beleive that they had implemented both source reduction
and in-house recycling to accomplish this, and were in the process of
looking for outright substitution options. They also seemed willing
to share this information with others in the industry, as I recall.
Since I can't recall the company contact, you can most likely get it
from one of two sources:
(1) Bonnie Meyer at WA Dept of Ecology, who runs the awards program
phone: (360) 407-6740
e-mail: bmey461@ecy.wa.gov
(2) NW Pollution Prevention Resource Center, which has the best P2
rolodex
this side of the Mississippi
phone: 206-223-1151
e-mail: office@pprc.org
Hope this helps.
Scott
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Scott Butner (rs_butner@pnl.gov)
Pacific NW National Laboratory/Seattle Research Center
4000 NE 41st Street
Seattle, WA 98105
206-528-3290 voice/206-528-3552 fax
http://www.seattle.battelle.org/P2Online/
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