Treatment and Recycling

United processes material through three possible pre-treatment venues:

• Coolants, waste oils and oily water are pretreated via chemical means, physical separation and ultimately ultra-filtration.

• Heavy metal wash waters, adhesive waters, inks, dyes, and non-oily wastewaters are pretreated with chemical adjustments, flocculants, and mechanical/physical separation.

• Leachate waters from non-hazardous landfills are coarsely filtered and chemically treated with sodium hypochlorite.

• Solvents are accepted through a new, proprietary process which allows them to be accepted as “recyclable products”.

With these four pre-treatment options, extensive analytical reports are obtained, reviewed and determined if they meet United's requirements. A waste profile of the waste in question is then produced, and used to "fingerprint" each individual wastestream.

Once a non-hazardous waste material is deemed acceptable and brought back to our facility, it is pre-treated, and the water is sent to the Cincinnati Metropolitan Sewer District. Oils are processed on site to qualify for recycling/reuse, and solid materials are sent to audit-approved landfills as a non-hazardous special waste.

Any further questions on our waste treatment systems can be answered by David Weber, United's Environmental Health and Safety Manager at (513) 733-4666.

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