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An Answer for Used Solvents Questions: Recycling
The coating industry in Minnesota has an option for reducing their solvent purchasing and disposal costs: WRR Environmental Services, Co., Inc.
WRR recycles a variety of organic, industrial solvents from a wide range of industries. The solvents that WRR recycles include aromatics, aliphatics, ketones, chlorinates, alcohols, chlorofluorocarbons, and non-regulated solvents. Once WRR has recovered the solvents, the company returns them to their clients or the market place as reclaimed product for reuse. WRR annually recycles over 25 million pounds of solvent waste into reusable material.
One of WRR’s clients is Larson/Glastron/Seaswirl Boats, Inc. in Little Falls, Minnesota. The company works with a non-hazardous/non-acetone based solvent in the production of boats. WRR has contracted with Larson/Glastron/Seaswirl Boats Inc. to recycle the solvent by running it through one of their thin film evaporation units and then returning the product back to the manufacturing facility for reuse.
By using WRR’s recycling service, Larson/Glastron/Seaswirl Boats, Inc. annually recycles 32,000 gallons of the non-hazardous/non-acetone based solvent and has saved $44,000 per year in product and disposal costs of their solvents.
Not only does recycling save companies direct dollars, but it also contributes to the collective good of the environment, because it reduces carbon dioxide greenhouse gas emissions. For more information about WRR and their solvent recycling services, visit <www.wrres.com>.
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