§ 6-13.712. Pollution prevention, waste minimization, recycling, and treatment.

All users must implement a program of waste minimization to reduce the generation of hazardous wastes in accordance with federal, state, and local policies. This program, at a minimum, shall include adequate housekeeping measures and product substitution to less hazardous raw materials as much as economically feasible and recycling of all wastestreams as technically feasible.

Waste minimization must be demonstrated wherever feasible, in the following order of priority, as determined by EPA policy derived from the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990:

(a)

Source reduction. Substitution to less hazardous materials, spill prevention and control measures, proper storage and handling of chemicals and raw materials, or any methods that accomplish source reduction.

(b)

Recycling, recovery, and/or reuse: Practice recovery, recycling, and reuse for such waste streams as solvents, oils, ethylene glycol, silver, and concentrated bath or spent solutions or other process wastestreams.

(c)

Treatment. Treatment techniques designed to render hazardous wastes harmless or suitable for proper disposal.

(d)

Disposal. Destruction of hazardous wastes must take precedence over landfilling, but in any case, all disposal must be in compliance with federal, state, and local hazardous waste disposal laws.

(§ 1, Ord. 1170, eff. April 21, 2011)