| BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY | ||||||
| FY05 Funded Pollution Prevention Projects | ||||||
| Rank | Project Name | Directorate, Dept/Div and POC | Cost | Savings | Payback (Years) | Waste Reduction |
| 1 | Aerosol Can Disposal System | High Energy Nuclear Physics (M. Van Essendelft) | $1,700 | $991 | 1.7 | 66 pounds of hazardous waste |
| 2 | Formaldetox | Life Sciences, Biology (A. Dilmanian) | $1,040 | $2,120 | 0.5 | 128 pounds of lab pack industrial wastes expected to be removed |
| 3 | Replacement of IO Mercury Thermometers | Instrumentation Division (R. Dinardo) | $250 | $2,350 | 0.1 | mercury |
| 4 | Replacement of PO Mercury Thermometers | Physics Department (R. Liegel) | $450 | $2,350 | 0.2 | mercury |
| 5 | Photon Counting Spectroflurometer | Life Sciences, Biology (D. Fu) | $46,350 | $25,540 | 1.8 | 2 ft3 of mixed waste and 1000 man-hours |
| 6 | Replacement of Mercury Utility Devices | Facilities & Operations, Plant Engineering (T. Farmer) | $12,000 | $2,350 | 5.1 | mercury |
| 7 | Animal Bedding Conveying System Dismantling * | Life Sciences, Medical (M. Kershaw) | $5,000 | $38,125 | 0.1 | 250 ft3 of LLRW |
| 8 | PCB Transformer Carcus Removal | Environmental & Waste Management Services (M. Davis) | $6,251 | $6,000 | 1.0 | High level risk to the Lab |
| 9 | Recovery of CFC-113 from Building 511 Chiller | Facilities & Operations, Plant Engineering (R. McKay) | $1,000 | $3,750 | 0.3 | Reduction of Class 1 Ozone Depleting Substances |
| 10 | Halogen 1211 Fire Extinguisher Substitution * | Facilities & Operations, Emergency Services (J. Searing) | $10,000 | $6,250 | 1.6 | Reduction of Halogenated Ozone Depleting Substances |
| 11 | EP Grounds Vehicle Wash * | Facilities & Operations, Plant Engineering (R. Jones) | $3,000 | $5,800 | 0.5 | oils/grease to soils |
| 12 | 208 Hopper Demolition | Environmental & Waste Management Services (P. D. Pohlot) | $8,100 | $4,000 | 2.0 | Legacy Waste and Safety Risk to Lab |
| 13 | Lab-Wide Earth Day Mercury Disposal Amnesty | Environmental & Waste Management Services (J. Selva) | $6,000 | $2,350 | 2.6 | Mercury |
| TOTAL INVESTED | $101,141 | |||||
| TOTAL SAVINGS | $101,976 | |||||
| AVERAGE PAYBACK PERIOD | 1.4 | |||||
| * indicates partial funding of the project | ||||||