Sources #1
WASTE ORIGIN: Film and
Print Processing (Color and B&W Films and Papers), Color Film, Color
Paper, and B&W Film and Paper
WASTE TYPES: Spent Process Chemicals (Developer, Fixer, Bleach Fix),
Contaminated Washwaters, Silver Concentration of Spent Process Chemicals, and
Washwaters
Sources:
Code of Management Practice for Silver Dischargers, Silver Coalition/Assn.
of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies (AMSA), September 1995.
Environmental Management and Pollution Prevention: A Guide for Photo Processors,
Washington State Department of Ecology, September 1994, Publ. 94-138.
Fact Sheet: Opportunities for Printers to Reduce Image Processing Costs by
Minimizing Waste and Recovering Silver, University of Wisconsin-Extension,
Solid and Hazardous Waste Education Center.
Project Summary: Waste Minimization Opportunity Assessment: A Photofinishing
Facility, U.S. EPA, Publ. EPA/600/S2-91/039.
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