Making a List

Alpha Omega Recycling Inc. (AORI) accepts a growing list of materials at its Longview, Texas, and Jackson, Ohio, hazardous and nonhazardous processing facilities.

According to AORI President Mark Wayne, that list includes the following items generated by a variety of industrial, mining, chemical, pharmaceutical and petro-chemical industries, as well as health care sector customers:
 

Listed Hazardous Wastes (Code of Federal Regulations)

• F006 - Wastewater treatment sludges from electroplating operations
• F019 - Wastewater treatment sludges from the chemical conversion coating of aluminum
• K061 - Electric arc furnace dust
• K171 - Spent hydro-treating catalyst
• K172 - Spent hydro-refining catalyst

Characteristic Hazardous Wastes (Code of Federal Regulations)

• D002 - Characteristically corrosive
• D003 - Characteristically reactive
• D004 - Contains arsenic
• D005 - Contains barium
• D006 - Contains cadmium
• D007 - Contains chromium
• D008 - Contains lead
• D009 - Contains mercury
• D010 - Contains selenium
• D011 - Contains silver

Nonhazardous Waste Streams:

• Liquids, solids and sludges contaminated with metals
• Inorganic byproduct and surplus
• Spent catalysts (containing nickel, copper or zinc)
• Drying agents
• Slags and scale
• Metal over-spray
• Precious metals contaminated streams