Review, assessment, and transfer of pollution prevention technology in plastic and RFC industries

摘要

Pollution Prevention options are available for all the types of waste associated with this industry. The availability of these options to a company varies throughout the industry. There are four major areas a company should analyze to determine the appropriate strategy in starting its pollution prevention program: Product design, necessary materials, manufacturing technology and methods, and workforce ability. These four areas should be addressed equally when trying to develop a strategy. It is unreasonable to purchase a new spray coating system that requires more operator skills than employees have. At the same time evaluations are being made, the cost of the change should also be considered. The costs that need to be evaluated can usually be broken down into four areas. They are the tooling cost (the cost of new molds, if necessary, for process change), the equipment cost (cost of resin application system and support equipment), the waste and scrap cost (cost of waste inherent in each system), and the workplace and environmental cost (cost of dealing with waste and scrap generated from each technology). The pros and cons of each cost for each technology should play as important a role in the evaluation of new technology as materials needed or workforce ability.