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HANDBOOK: RECYCLING AND REUSE OF MATERIAL FOUND ON SUPERFUND SITES
Citation:
HANDBOOK: RECYCLING AND REUSE OF MATERIAL FOUND ON SUPERFUND SITES. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 1994.
Description:
This document provides assistance in identifying potential recycling technologies for a wide variety of contaminants and matrices. Personnel at Superfund and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Corrective Action sites face the challenge of selecting remedial options for wastes that contain organic and inorganic contaminants. Recycling contaminated materials may be an efficient method of waste management at contaminated sites. Recycling technology converts materials that otherwise would require disposal into useful commodities. The recycling process can either remove contaminants from the matrix and collect them in some useful form or can modify the contaminant and matrix to yield a new product with desirable properties. Thermal, physical, chemical, and biological mechanisms for waste recycling have been developed or are being studied at the laboratory scale. This document is designed to increase awareness among Superfund or RCRA site personnel of the capabilities and limitations of a wide range of recycling technologies. The handbook describes technologies for recycling organic and inorganic contaminants in solid and liquid matrices. It also discusses the fundamental principles, maturity, applications, advantages, limitations, and operating features of commercially available and emerging recycling technologies. A summary and two summary tables are provided to allow rapid identification of candidate technologies.