| BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY | ||||||
| FY02 Funded Pollution Prevention Projects | ||||||
| Rank | Project Name | Directorate, Dept/Div and POC | Cost | Savings | Payback (Years) | Waste Reduction |
| 1 | Minimization of Silver Waste from Silver-Staining Electrophoretic Mini-Gels | Life Sciences, Biology (B. Sutherland) | $1,670 | $30,860 | 0.05 | 2200 lbs hazwaste |
| 2 | Retrofit of Garbage Truck Hydraulics With Steel-braded Hydraulic Lines and a Vegetable Based Hydraulic Oil | Finance & Admin, Staff Services (K. Mohring) | $7,500 | $15,000 | 0.5 | 400 lbs industrial waste, eliminates potential for oil contaminated run-off |
| 3 | Retrofit of Hydraulic Lift Bays in Motor Pool Shop to Vegetable Based Hydraulic Oil | Finance & Admin, Staff Services (K. Mohring) | $8,000 | $25,000 | 0.3 | 0-30 drums industrial waste |
| 4 | Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) Drying Shed | Facilitis & Operations, Plant Engineering (G. Olsen, G. Flett) | $25,000 | $120,000 | 0.2 | One time savings, 96% volume reduction of radioactive waste |
| 5 | Evaluation of CO2 Snow Cleaning for NSLS, Instrumentation and CAD applications | NSLS, Instrumentation, and CAD (D. Bauer) | $5,000 | see text | 2 | Potential to reduce solvent usage (hazwaste), and aqueous cleaning wastes (industrial waste) |
| 6 | Replacement of Film-based Autoradiography and other radioisotopic imaging with a Phosphor Imager | Life Sciences, Medical (A. Gifford) | $25,000 | $22,000 | 1.1 | 200 lbs hazwaste, 100 lbs industrail waste |
| 7 | Reduction of hazardous, radioactive and industrial waste with a digital imaging system | Life Sciences, Biology (Dax Fu) | $25,000 | $25,000 | 1 | 134 lbs hazwaste, 68 lbs industrail, 80 lbs radwaste |
| 8 | Development of a fluorescence-based assay for the DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PKcs) to replace current 32P assay | Life Sciences, Biology (J. Flanagan) | $22,000 | $30,000 | 0.7 | 200 lbs mixed waste |
| TOTAL INVESTED | $119,170 | |||||
| TOTAL SAVINGS | $267,860 | |||||
| AVERAGE PAYBACK PERIOD | 0.4 Years (~5 months) | |||||