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Cleanaway Waste Management — Technical Presentation (January 2016)
12 slides from Cleanaway Waste Management's technical presentation, January 2016
Slide 1: NPI Reporting for Melbourne Regional Landfill
NPI REPORTING FOR MELBOURNE REGIONAL LANDFILL Jackie Wright Environmental Risk Sciences Pty Ltd
Slide 2: About Environmental Risk Sciences
ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL RISK SCIENCES • University degree and studying (completing this year) PhD in Public Health. Also Fellow of Australasian College of Toxicology and Risk Assessment • Involved in conducting human health and environmental risk assessments for more than 25 years • Evaluated wide range
Slide 3: Chemicals
CHEMICALS • The world is made of chemicals • Building blocks for all matter are the elements • Some chemicals are naturally occurring and some we make • Chemicals are formed in chemical reactions – which occur naturally (e.g. how our bodies make energy within cells, photosynthesis, burning) or from
Slide 4: Chemicals
CHEMICALS • Chemicals are used for many different purposes • We need oxygen, water and nutrients to stay alive • We make products we need such as clothes, computers, cars, houses, cleaning products, medicines • Some naturally occurring chemicals are highly toxic (e.g. snake and spider venom), some c
Slide 5: National Pollutant Inventory (NPI)
NATIONAL POLLUTANT INVENTORY (NPI) • Required for certain industries and companies (based on size, types and amounts of chemicals) • Standardised way of collecting information on the chemicals stored and used, and emissions to air, water or land • Guidelines on who has to report and what has to be r
Slide 6: Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS
Slide 7: Landfills are highly engineered facilities that are designed to control emissions
Groundwater monitoring well Perimeter monitoring well Landfills are highly engineered facilities that are designed to control emissions.
Slide 8: Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS • NPI is an estimation tool that is used to provide an estimate of chemicals that relate to landfills • Report provides details on the landfill • NPI manual outlines how this is to be done • Applies to all landfills • Uses standardised methods and chemical lists (stan
Slide 9: What chemicals are included and where are these also present?
WHAT CHEMICALS ARE INCLUDED – AND WHERE ARE THESE ALSO PRESENT? Inorganic Agriculture Household products Ammonia yes Hydrogen sulfide yes Arsenic yes Cadmium yes Copper yes Hydrochloric acid yes Lead yes Mercury yes Zinc yes
Slide 10: What chemicals are included and where are these also present?
WHAT CHEMICALS ARE INCLUDED – AND WHERE ARE THESE ALSO PRESENT? Organics Combustion Agriculture Household/other products Acetone yes (nail polish remover, varnishes, plastics) Benzene yes yes (glues, adhesives, paint strippers and cleaning products) Chloroform yes (by-product of chlorination, solven
Slide 11: Some other sources of chemicals?
SOME OTHER SOURCES OF CHEMICALS? Data from household products (µg/m3) – from H&P (2014) VOC 1,3-Butadiene Ethylbenzene Naphthalene 1,4-Dioxane Benzene Toluene Ethanol HCDB PCE TPH Product Shaving Cream 389 789 77 104 89 Sunscreen 110000 93000 Shampoo 11000 87 Fish Oil 19 39 Hand cleanser 27 50000 Ba
Slide 12: Overview
OVERVIEW • Chemicals are everywhere and whatever we throw out goes into the landfill • The chemicals that make up the items we throw away plus those that are formed during degradation will all be present in a landfill • The NPI report lists out a lot of chemicals
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