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INNOVATIVE UTAH FACILITY REDUCES AIR POLLUTION
Release Date: 09/21/2000
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FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2000
INNOVATIVE UTAH FACILITY REDUCES AIR POLLUTION
On September 20, EPA signed an agreement with Autoliv Automobile Safety Products Inc., a manufacturer of explosive products for use in the air bag industry, to test an alternative treatment of hazardous wastes generated at their Promontory, Utah facility. Currently, the wastes are treated off-site at a treatment, storage and disposal facility that is permitted to accept hazardous wastes from outside sources and treat it by open burning. Although open burning is an approved treatment method under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the pollution from open burning cannot be controlled. Autoliv proposes to adapt their highly advanced metals recovery facility to process their hazardous wastes onsite. This innovation will allow the wastes to go through a permitted air pollution control system, thus reducing the amount of air pollution released to the environment. To implement this project, EPA and the Utah Department of Environmental Quality will grant Autoliv a conditional exemption from RCRA requirements that regulate hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal. Autoliv can test this alternative treatment through Project XL, an EPA initiative that tests innovative ways of achieving better and less costly public health and environmental protection in conjunction with greater accountability to stakeholders. Providing flexibility for companies who strive to attain environmentally superior results is a key element of Project XL. By using this innovative process, Autoliv could eliminate the open burning of 158,000 pounds of explosive material per year, which in turn will eliminate 22,876 pounds per year of particulate emissions. More information about Project XL can be found at: https://www.epa.gov/ProjectXL.
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