1. Rehab the Kansas Lab

2. Overview Kansas high school clean sweep program
Community college chemical clean sweep program
PPI rehab the Kansas lab program and assistance for community colleges

3. High School Lab Sweep Program
Agreement form
Chemical inventory
KDHE review
School segregates chemicals
KDHE collects solid waste
State contractor collects hazardous waste

5. School Lab Sweep Program
245 schools
17,300 containers hazardous waste
Approximately 23,000 lbs
Program completion soon

6. College Lab Sweep Program
Agreement form
Chemical inventory
PPI and KDHE review
School segregates chemicals
College packages and dispose solid waste
State contractor collects hazardous waste

7. Rehab the Lab Kansas Style
K-State Pollution Prevention Institute
EPA Region 7 P2 grant
College science laboratories
PBT focus – mercury
Case studies fact sheet –
KDHE clean out funds

8. Rehab the Kansas Lab-PPI role
Assist Kansas college science laboratories with
identification,
reduction, and
elimination
of PBTs and high-risk chemicals.

9. Rehab the Kansas Lab-PPI role
Assist with multi-media compliance with environmental regulations
Compliance and P2 checklist

10. Rehab the Kansas Lab Identification – sources used
PBTs (chemicals & Hg-containing devices)
minimize/chemlist.htm
High-risk chemicals
highrisktable.pdf

11. Rehab the Kansas Lab Reduction
Help prioritize which chemicals to rid first, if can’t afford to do all at once
Help with determining disposal method
Provide micro-chemistry resources
Quantify amounts reduced

12. Rehab the Kansas Lab Elimination Encourage complete elimination of:
mercury and mercury compounds
mercury-containing devices
other PBTs
high-risk chemicals
Provide green-chemistry resources
Discuss future purchasing procedures
Quantify amounts eliminated

13. Rehab the Lab – PPI role Also offering On-site assessments
Teleconferences
Rehab the Lab
Common environmental compliance issues
Green chemistry
“list serve”
Explain each bullet

14. Rehab the Kansas Lab PPI results so far
On-site visits to eight colleges
Inventories from four colleges
Total mercury identified = 194 lbs
Total PBTs identified = 406 lbs
Total high-risk chemicals = 2521 lbs

15. Case study – Bethany College
Background
Results – Data in grams (pounds)
Mercury PBTs High-risk
Stockroom (1.5) (4) 25,790 (57)
Devices (9)
Past disposal 11,410 (25) 17,960 (40) 29,340 (65)
Total 16,310 (36) 19,800 (44) 55,130 (122)

16. Case study – Friends University
Background
Results – Data in grams (pounds)
Mercury PBTs High-risk
Stockroom inventory 15,050 (33) ,660 (124) ,410 (739)
Devices 11,025 (24)
Past disposal (9) ,120 (62) ,120 (62)
Total 30,160 (66) ,780 (186) ,530 (801)

17. Rehab the Kansas Lab-contacts
PPI environmental hotline
Barb
Nancy
Maria Morey, KDHE