1. Reducing Solvent Emissions Green practices to improve air quality

2. Please make sure you have registered and have a workshop folder
Welcome
Please make sure you have registered
and have a workshop folder

3. Small Business Environmental Assistance Program
Provides air-focused technical assistance to Kansas small- and medium-sized businesses
Environmental regulatory compliance
Emissions reduction and pollution prevention
Permitting and reporting requirements
Integrate pollution prevention opportunities in services
Free, confidential, non-regulatory

4. Small Business Environmental Assistance Program
SBEAP services are provided via
Environmental hotline ( )
On-site visits
Targeted regulatory or industry-specific workshops
Publications
Fact sheets, manuals
E-tips
Web-based resources and training

5. Seminar at a Glance Folder contents Agenda details
Survey of material use
Evaluations
Agenda details
Thanks to sponsors and vendors
Door prize registration
Room and restroom logistics
Cell phones and pagers

6. Questions or Suggestions?
SBEAP Hotline
(Local)

7. Defining the Air Quality Challenge
John Stark
City of Wichita
Air Quality Program Supervisor

8. Regulatory Drivers
Barb Johnson
KS SBEAP

9. Kansas Pollution Prevention Awards
Cathy Colglazier
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Public Advocate

10. Greening Your Practices
An overview for reducing emissions and saving dollars

11. Pollution Prevention (P2)
P2 act of Shifted the focus from “end-of-pipe” pollution treatment and cleanup, to policies, technologies, and processes which prevent and minimize the generation of pollution

12. Greening Your Practices
Pollution Prevention or source reduction – reducing at the source always preferred.
Three primary focuses today
Change the process
Change the technology
Change the material

13. Kansas Best of the Best Past projects capture savings
Emissions Reductions
21.5 tons VOCs
9.6 tons HAPS
17 tons hazardous waste
$70,000 annually saved

14. Change the Process Inventory control processes
Pre-determined or metered solvent use
Pre-sat wipes
Ordering paint processes by color
Dedicated paint booths

15. Change the Technology
Spray guns to increase transfer efficiency, reduce overspray, save raw material and $$
Distillation

16. Change the Material
Switch to a less hazardous or non-hazardous solvent that will perform according to your needs
Define your needs
How clean is clean?
How do you select these alternatives?

17. CleanerSolutions Database
Jason Marshall, ScD
Laboratory Director
Toxics Use Reduction Institute

18. Break with Vendors
Refreshments sponsored by Contrast Equipment Company and Nordson Corporation

19. What’s new in low or no-VOC solvents and coatings
Change the Material
What’s new in low or no-VOC solvents and coatings
Starts at 10:10 am
Repeated at 10:55 am

20. Lunch Sponsors Safety-Kleen Car Color and PPG Paints
ZEP Manufacturing Company
Sherwin-Williams

21. Roundtable Discussion
Starts at 12:20 pm

22. Putting it All Together
Change the material
Change the technology
Change the process

23. Seminar Wrap Up Door prizes Evaluations
Confidential regulatory assistance in Sedgwick room (optional)

24. Questions or Suggestions?
SBEAP Hotline
(Local)