Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 37.45
Liaison Claudia Kent
Submission Date July 28, 2011
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Haverford College
OP-21: Hazardous Waste Management

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.00 / 1.00 Mark Sweeney
Associate Director/Safety Coordinator
Safety and Security
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Does the institution have strategies in place to safely dispose of all hazardous, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste and seek to minimize the presence of these materials on campus?:
Yes

A brief description of steps taken to reduce hazardous, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste:

There is no current policy to reduce these types of wastes.


A brief description of how the institution safely disposes of hazardous, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste:

All hazardous and non-regulated chemical waste is collected and stored in a waste storage room located in the Koshland Integrated Science Center room E – 011A. In accordance with EPA regulations regarding our generator status as a “Small Quantity Generator” all hazardous and non-regulated chemical waste is removed by a licensed hazardous waste disposal company at no more than 180 day intervals. Haverford College currently contracts with Clean Ventures, Camden, New Jersey or Disposal Consultant Services, Piscataway, New Jersey. The waste material is treated or disposed of by various methods. These methods include the following: fuel blending, neutralization, recycling and purification for re-use. Disposal by landfill is considered by Haverford College to be a last resort method of disposal.

Universal wastes including batteries and mercury are removed from campus by Clean Ventures, Camden, New Jersey or Disposal Consultant Services, Piscataway, New Jersey. Haverford College recycles all types of batteries used on campus. In addition, a program has been implemented to accept personal batteries from students, staff, and faculty. Mercury is a very minimal waste stream on campus and is recycled or purified for reuse by the contractors mentioned above.

All waste fluorescent tubes are collected by the Facilities Department and recycled/disposed of by Veolia Environmental Services, Port Washington, Wisconsin.


The website URL where information about hazardous materials management is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Information received from Mark Sweeney, Safety Coordinator/Associate Director: Safety and Security.


Information received from Mark Sweeney, Safety Coordinator/Associate Director: Safety and Security.

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