Household Hazardous Waste: Composition Of Paint Waste  

Oleh:

Fjelsted, Lotte ; Christensen, Thomas H.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Waste Management & Research vol. 25 no. 6 (Dec. 2007), page 502-509.
Topik: paint waste; chemical composition; household hazardous waste; wmr 1188–1
Fulltext: 502.pdf (680.38KB)

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‘Paint waste’, a part of the ‘household hazardous waste’, amounting to approximately 5 tonnes was collected from recycling stations in two Danish cities. Sorting and analyses of the waste showed paint waste comprised approximately 65% of the mass, paint-like waste (cleaners, fillers, etc.) comprised 15–25% and foreign items comprised 10–20%.Waterbased paint was the dominant part of the paint waste. The chemical composition of the paint waste and the paint-like waste was characterized by an analysis of 27 substances in seven waste fractions. The content of critical substances was low and the paint waste was less contaminated with heavy metals than was the ordinary household waste. This may suggest that households no longer need to source-segregate their paint if the household waste is incinerated, since the presence of a small quantity of solvent-based paint will not be harmful when incinerated. Allowing household paint waste to be collected with ordinary household waste is expected to reduce the cost of handling household hazardous waste, since paint waste in Denmark comprises the major fraction of household hazardous waste.

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