Welcome the Zero Waste Network success story database. We currently have 539 success stories. Each case study is an example of how a real facility saved money, reduced waste, and/or lowered their regulatory burden through an innovative P2 practice. The studies are often written in a companies own words, with minimal editing. For more information on success story procedures see: success story SOP's document.
Industry General : All Electronics Manufacturer Activated Carbon Systems Manufacturer Aggregates- Calcium Carbonate Production Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing Aircraft Maintenance Aircraft Manufacturing Ammunition Manufacturing Automobile Tire Manufacturing Automotive Maintenance Automotive manufacture Automotive Parts Manufacturer Cement Manufacturing Chemical Distribution Chemical Manufacturing Chemical Storage and Distribution Chemical/ Petroleum Storage and Handling Clothing Colleges and Universities Concrete Product Manufacturing Construction Construction and mining equipment Distribution Educational Institution Electronics Manufacturing Electronics Manufacturer Electronics Manufacturing Energy Production Food/Beverage Manufacturing Foundry Furniture Manufacturing Glass Manufacturing Government Government Agency-Includes Military Household product manufacturer Industrial Equipment Manufacturer Industrial Equipment Manufacturing Laboratory Laundry Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal Manufacturer Manufacturing Manufacturing - Auto Parts Marine Maintenance Media Medical Equipment Manufacturer Medical Facility Metal Fabrication Metal Finishing Metal Recycling Metals Military Mining Non-Profit Oi & Gas Field Equipment Packaging Paint/Coating Paper Production Petroleum Refining Petroleum Storage/Distribution Plastics Plating Polyethylene Manufacturing POTW Printing Prison Recycling Redevelopment Authority Refrigeration and air conditioning components Rubber Semiconductor Manufacturing Service, Transportation Ship Building and Repairing Shipbuilding and Repair Sports & Entertainment Vehicle Maintenance Waste Incineration Water Utilities Wood Products Zoo
Process Type : All Acetonitrile production Adhesive Manufacturing Aerosol Can Disposal Air compression Air compressor Air Conditioning Aircraft Repair Aluminum Anodizing Ammonia Production Ammonia Stripper Antifreeze Recycling Asphalt Pavement Testing, Sign Producing Automotive Maintenance Barge Cleaning Bending Metal Tubes Biodiesel Use Bleaching Boiler Boiler (CFB) Boilers Burner modification Butadiene Production Cafeteria/Breakroom Carbon Production Catalyst Extraction Catalyst Recovery Chemical Manufacturing Chemical Production Chemical Research Chemical Storage and Delivery Chemical Synthesis Chloroprene production Circuit Board Cleaning Circuit Board Etching Circuit Board Photography Circuit Board Plating Circuit Board Soldering Cleaning Cleaning with Wash Oil Closed Loop Cooling System Coal Combustion Coating Cold Galvanizing Condensate Filtration Cooling Towers Corn Milling Degreaser Degreasing Dentistry Dipping Tank Distillation Dyeing EHS Administration Electrical Generation Electricity Generation Electronic Assembly Electroplating Energy Reduction Equipment Disposal Equipment Preservation Extrusion Fabric manufacturing Facility heating cooling Facility Lighting/HVAC Facilty Lighting/HVAC Fiberglass manufacturing Filter maintenance Filtration Fire Protection Food Rendering/Dining Furniture Manufacturing Galvanization Gasoline Fractionation Gluing Gray water recycling Green Building Grinding Haz waste inventory and storage HCN Waste Treatment Healthcare Services Heat Exchanger Heat Exchanger Cleaning High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) HVAC System Improved management practices. Incineration Industrial Injection Molding Instrument Rental Inventory - Chemical Inventory Control Ion Exchange Recharge Laboratory Laboratory Equipment Laboratory Operation Land Reclamation Laser Printers Cartridges Leak Detection & Repair LED Lighting Lighting Upgrade Lubrication Machining Maintenance Maintenance, Hydraulic Maintenance, Landscape Manufacturing Marine Loading Medical Equipment Disposal Medical Equipment Maintenance Medical Testing Mercury Management Metal Fabrication Metal Machining Metal Recovery from Grinder Media Methanol Stripper Mixing Molding Plastics Nail Manufacturing Nitrile production Off gas Collection Office, Groundskeeping Oil and Grease Treatment Oil Water Separations Oil/Water Separation Olefin Manufacturing Oven Cleaning Packaging Paer manufacturing Paint Coating Paint Stripping Painting Coating Painting/Coating Paper Bleaching Parts Cleaning Petroleum Production Petroleum Storage Pharmacy photographic plate making Piping Plastics Manufacturing Plastics Manufacturing Plastics Molding Plastics/Rubber Manufacturing Plating Polyethylene Manufacturing Polymer manufacturing Polypropylene prodcution Pre peel softening Printing Process analysis Process Cleaning Process Control Process Controls Process Cooling Process Cooling Water Process Heating Process Instumentation Process Liquid Filtration Process Lubrication Process Modification Process Oil Recovery Process Vents Product Storage Product Testing Production Propylene Recovery Pumping PVC Manufacturing Radiator Service Reactor Cleaning Reclamation Recycling Red Bag Management Reduction Refurbishing/Repair Replacing toilets Rinse Water & Packaging Rubber polymerization Sample extractions using Methylene Chloride Sandblasting Sanitary Sewer System Service & Rebuild Sludge Treatment Slurry Deashing Sodium chloride conversion Solvent Solvent Disposal Solvent distillation Solvent Recovery Stack Gas Cleaning Startup Procedures Sterilization Storage Tanks Stormwater Substitution of Food Grade Hydraulic Oil Surface Coating Surface Hardening surface preparation Syngas Production Tank Cleaning Tank Vapor Leaks Thermal Oxidation Thermal Oxidizers Transformer manufacturing Transportation UV disinfection Vehicle Maintenance Vehicle Washing Vinyl Chloride Monomer Reactors VOC collection Waste Collection Waste Disposal Waste gas Filtration Waste Incineration Waste Reduction Waste Storage Wastewater Treatment Water Jetting Water Treatment Wavesolder
Waste Reduced : All Abrasive Blasting Acetone, ammonia Acetonitrile Aerosol cans Air Emissions air emissions, excess material Air emissions, solid waste Air Toxics (TCE) AirEmissions Algae Amines Animal waste Antifreeze Batteries Benzene Bilge oil Blast Media Blue-green algae and related taste and odor issues Cardboard cardboard, plastic, paper Catalyst CFC's chemical products, wastewater Chemicals, Process Chlorine Coating Waste Compressed Air Construction material Contaminated Fuel & Solvents Coolant Coolant Oil Coolant water Copper copper sludge Cotton Waste Decyl Alcohol and Ethylene Glycol Disposed to Deepwells Dioxin Dust Effluent BOD Electricity Electrolyte Waste Electropolishing rinse water Emissions Emissions from electricity generation Emissions, Air Emissions, Fugitive emissions, wastewater,solid waste Energy energy and materials Energy usage energy use, air emissions Energy waste Energy, wastewater Ethanol, Xylene, and Formalin Ethylene Filter Media, Hazardous First Flush Wash Water flammables, mercury, solvent (ethanol, xylene, and formalin) Flouride Waste Flux and VOC emission Flux, alcohol FOG (Fats, Oils, and Grease) foundry sand, water Gas Cylinders GHG-Crude Oil Hazardous Waste Hazardous Waste & Air Emissions Hazardous waste, solid waste Hazmat/Waste & Non-conformance HFC Emission Hydraulic Fluid Isopropyl Alcohol Isopropyl alcohol, VOC's K061 Emission Control Dust Laboratory Waste Landfill Waste Landfilled Waste line losses, wash solvent reuse Liquid waste Lubricating Oil Materials Mercury Mercury amalgam Metals, organics Methane, natural gas, greenhouse gases Methanol Multi-media Municipal Solid Waste Natural gas Nickel powder Nitrate-Nitrogen Nitrogen Oxide Non-hazardous solid waste NOx NOx, CO2 NOx, KwH, Oil Oil Oil Absorbent Oil/Hydrocarbons Organics Packaging Paint paint overspray Paint waste Paint wastes Pallets PFC Emissions Phosphoric Acid and Chlorine Dioxide Plastic Plastic Materials Plastics Plating Wastes Polystyrene powder paint Process Chemicals Process Materials Process Wastes Processing Chemicals & Gasoline Propane Red bags, sharps and xylene Refrigerants Sawdust silver Sludge SO2, CO2, NOx as well as significant energy efficiency savings Sodium chloride, energy (BTUs) Solder Solid Waste solid waste, hazardous waste, oil waste Solid Waste, VOC Emissions, Wastewater solid waste: paint and plastic Solids solids, BOD Solids, TSS Solvent Solvent & used oil absorbent solvent, parts washer, paint-related solvent, solid waste Solvents solvents, VOC's, dirty rags Stack Emissions Steel Shot Waste Styrene Styrene, Solid Waste Styrofoam cups Sulfuric Acid TDS TRI Emissions Trichloroethylene-Based Degreaser TSS, CBOD-5, Nitrogen Ammonia Used Oil Used oil waste Used Water VanadiumCatalyst Vehicle Emissions VOC VOC and Wastewater VOC Emissions VOCs VOC's, HAP's, and H2S VOCs, Sludge waste Waste Oil Waste Oil, Electricity waste water Wastewater Wastewater and Sludge Wastewater, Chemical Solvents Water Xylene Xylene/toluene solution Zinc zinc ammonium chloride flux
Company : All 3M Company ADM Corn Processing Advance Brands Agrium US Inc. Air Products Incorporated Alcoa Alenco AllChem Allen-Bradley Alliant Energy Alpha Omega Recycling, Inc. Alumax Mill Products American Airlines American Medical Electronics American Ordinance American Standard Circuits Amoco Chemical Company Amoco Oil Company Amoco Production Company Anheuser-Busch Anonymous APAC-Texas, Inc., Trotti & Thomson Division Apollo Hardwoods Archer Daniels Midland Company ASARCO Incorporated AT&T Power Systems Atlas Copco A-Z Terminal B&W Pantex manages and operates the Pantex Plant for the U.S. Dep Baker Petrolite Baxter Healthcare Corporation Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. Betaco Betz Laboratories, Inc. BOC Edwards Kachina Boeing Defense & Space Boeing Defense and Space BP Chemicals, Inc. Brass Craft Buckley Oil Company Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base Cargill Meat Solutions Carlisle SynTec, Inc Carrier Corporation CDC Coatings/Dickson Weatherproof Nail Co. CE-DFW Inc Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District Champion International Corporation Chem-Pruf Door Company Chevron Chemical , Oronite Additives Division Chevron Chemical Company Cities of Greenville and Bushnell City of Bozeman Library City of Dallas Water Utilities City of Fort Worth Pretreatment Services City of Houston City of Missoula City of Richmond City of Richmond, VA Clariant Corporation - Mount Holly Plant Clear Lake Marine Center CMI, Texas, Inc. CNH-Case Corporation Coastal Carolina Community College Coca Cola Bottling Company Coca-Cola - Dallas Syrup Plant Cominco Fertilizers Compaq Computer Corporation Componentes Mecanicos de Matamoros Computer Circuitry Company ConAgra Foods- Grocery Products Co. ConAgra- Grocery Products Co. Conoco-Phillips Cooper Crouse-Hinds Corpus Christi Army Depot Covenant Health System Danfoss Chatleff LLC DART - East Dallas Dayton Tire Dean Chem Defense Distribution Depot Red River Dial Corporation Dickson Weatherproof Nail/CDC Coatings Domino's Pizza Donaldson Company, Inc. Dow Chemical Company Dr. Darryl Diefes, Dentist Dupont DuPont Dow Elastomers, Pontchartrain Site Dynagen, Inc. DynMcDermott Petroleum Operations and DOE E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. Eagle Rock Energy Eaton El Primero Boutique B&B Hotel Empire Castings Enterprise Transportation Company ESCO Elevators Exxon Company USA Federal - Mogul Federal Home Products Fibergrate Composite Structures Inc. Fibre Body Industries Fisher Controls International FMC Corporation Formosa Plastics Fort Hood Environmental Freeport LNG Development LP Fritz Industries, Inc. Gallatin County, Montana GCA-Washburn Tunnel General Electric General Instrument/Jerrold Communications General Motors Corporation Georgia-Gulf Corporation Go/Dan Industries Goldberg General Contracting Gomaco Graham Magnetics, Inc. Green Up West Yellowstone Greenleaf Nursery Co. Griffin L.L.P H.E. Butt Grocery Co. H.J. Heinz USA Haldor Topsoe, Inc. Highland Machine Hitachi Hoechst Celanese Hoechst Celanese Chemical Group, Inc. Hoechst Celanese-Corpus Christi Technical Center Holcim (U.S.) Inc. Howell Hydrocarbons & Chemicals Howell Hydrocarbons & Chemicals, Inc. H-R Industries Hunting Oilservices Inc. Huntsman Huntsman Corporation IBM IEC Electronics III Corps and Fort Hood Intercontinental Manufacturing Company International Garment Processors International Paint, LLC International Paper International Resistive Company, Inc. International Truck and Engine Corporation Intertek Testing Services- Caleb Brett USA, Inc. ISK Biosciences Corporation J Cleo Thomson J.L. Clark JAMAK Fabrication, Inc. JM Huber Corporation Johnson & Johnson Medical, Inc. Jones Blair Company Kaspar Wire Works, Inc Kelly Air Force Base Laughlin AFB Lear Corporation Lockheed Martin Michoud Space Systems Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Lone Star Radiator Company, Inc. Louisiana-Pacific Corporation Lower Colorado River Authority Lozier Lucent Technologies Lyondell Polymers Marmon Motor Company Mars Chocolate North America LLC MerCruiser Metzeler Automotive Profile Systems Millennium Petrochemicals, Inc. Molex, Inc. Monsanto Motorola Murdock Engineering Company N.C. Department of Transportation Nalco/Exxon Energy Chemical Company National Institute of Environmental Health National Instruments NC Division of Highways - Equipment Depot New World Recycling Nick's Diesel Service NORIT Americas Inc North Carolina Baptist Hospital North Carolina National Guard NRG Texas LP Nucor Steel Oiltanking Texas City LP Oxy Petrochemicals, Inc. Oxy USA, Inc. Pearson Penford Products, Co. PerkinElmer Automotive Research Phillips Petroleum Company Pilgrims Pride Pilot Chemcial Company Prairie Research Institution Precision Tube Finishing Inc. Preco Turbine Services Prestigious Accessories, Inc. Printpack Inc. Quantum Chemical Company Rawson-Koenig Inc Red Ewald, Inc Red River Army Depot Research Triangle Institute Reynolds Metals Company Rhône-Poulenc Richland College RIMIR, S.A. de C.V. Robert J. Dole Deaprtment of Veterans Affairs Medical and Regiona Rock-Tenn Rockwell Collins Rubicon Incorporated Sanden International (USA), Inc. Sandoz Crop Protection Seymour Johnson Air Force Base SGS-Thomson Microelectronics Shell Chemical Company, Norco Shell Development Shell Oil Company Shell West Hollow Technolgy Center Shell West Hollow Technology Center Shin-Etsu Silicones of America Inc Sony Microelectronics Southwest Shipyard LP Spansion Spohn Hospital Spohn Hospital Shoreline St. Patrick Hospital Star Enterprise Refinery State Surplus Property Agency Stemco LP Sterling Chemicals, Inc. STL, Inc. Stolt Terminals, Inc. Sulzer (Medica) Intermedics Sunbelt Transformer SuperShuttle Dallas Tetra Pack of Denton TexAmericas Center Texas Aircraft Milling, Inc. Texas Army National Guard Texas Christian University Texas Department of Criminal Justice Texas Dept. of Transportation Texas Eastman Texas Instruments Texas Nameplate Company Inc. Texas-New Mexico Power Company The City of Guymon The North Carolina Zoo The Sabine Mining Company The Sun Products Corporation The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Thermon Tinker Air Force Base Toolamation Inc. Transport Service Company TRICO Products Turbomeca USA TXDOT-Dallas TXI Operations, L.P. Tyco Fire Protection Products U.S. Department of Energy Pantex Plant Union Carbide - Seadrift Plant Union Carbide Corporation Uniroyal Chemical Company, Inc. United States Aluminum Corporation Universal Solutions of NC, Inc. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Texas University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at DallasUT.. Unocal (Beaumont Terminal) US Navy UT Austin UT MD Anderson Cancer Center VAC Corp. Valero Refining Valspar Vance Air Force Base (VAFB) Vancouver Arena Limited Partnership Vecta VT Industries WaterJet Service WEBCO Industries Wells' Dairy, Inc. Westlake Longview Corporation Wilsonart International, Inc. Winnebego Industries, Inc. Witco, Inc. Woodfold Mfg., Inc. Worldwide Alloy Surfacing, Inc. (WWASI) XeTel Corporation York International
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