The ability to process both hazardous and non hazardous waste at the same site offers generators unprecedented convenience and cost efficiency. PCI can receive non hazardous waste at each of its three locations.

In addition to PCI's hazardous waste management programs, PCI manages a wide variety of non-hazardous wastes including water-based inks, pastes and glues, latex paints, glycols and adhesives. These wastes tend to have a higher water composition, with little or no fuel value, and generally do not meet the criteria for our fuel blending process. PCI has constructed dedicated non-hazardous waste processing areas at the Indiana and Tennessee locations to handle these waste streams. Non-Hazardous processing includes the bulking of non-hazardous sludges and liquids for solidification and bulking of non-hazardous debris such as wood, plastics and rags for energy recovery. At the Indiana and Tennessee locations, PCI utilizes a shredder to accomplish particle size reduction of solids to comply with Subtitle "D" landfill standards. Given PCI's management of these materials, we have seen a dramatic increase in the amount of non-hazardous waste sent to our facilities over the last several years. PCI's facilities can manage both drummed and bulk non-hazardous waste.

Stabilization and Chemical Fixation

Characteristic hazardous wastes that carry the D001 (for oxidizing wastes only), D002, D004-D011 codes and do not contain underlying hazardous constituents with concentrations above the universal treatment standards and those which are also exempt from sub part CC regulations (<500ppm voc) are acceptable materials for PCI's chemical stabilization process. Typical waste include heavy metal compounds, acids and acid sludges, electrical/electronic waste, inorganic chemical and petrochemical waste, incinerator, boiler and industrial furnace residues, multi-source leachates, general debris and inorganic waste containing <30% oil and grease.

The basic stabilization operation immobilizes the leachable metals by combining the waste with stabilization agents such as lime or cement kiln dust. The process produces a non-hazardous cement-like material. These chemical bonding agents form a solid structure around the waste that binds the contaminated material into a solid, non-leachable mass safe for landfill disposal. Acid and caustic wastes are neutralized and oxidizers will be reduced.

The non-hazardous waste processing area has three concrete bins, each with a volume of 12,000 gallons. Each tank can process non-hazardous materials for one of three separate processes. These processes are:

Bulking of non-hazardous waters for waste water treatment.

Bulking of non hazardous for waste to energy.

Bulking of non-hazardous sludges for solidification.

Bulking of non-hazardous solids for landfill.