>>
Dear Technetters, I am forwarding this message from Compliancenet to get
broader feedback.
Hello Everyone,
>> The IPC Environmental Health and Safety committee has decided to
partner with the American Electroplaters and Surface Finishers (AESF) at their
>> next annual conference, which is held each year in Orlando during
>> the last week in January. I and a few others from our committee have
>> this annual conference over the past five years or so, and find it to
>> be an excellent conference focusing on current environmental
>> issues and pollution prevention (P2). Few conferences can get U.S.
EPA Administrator Browner to attend, even though she doesn't know what
"F006" means in terms of the industry's wastewater treatment sludge!
>>
>> In order to show our committment to enhancing our relationship with
>> AESF, we are committing to holding four paper sessions next January.
>> We are seeking topics for these sessions, and papers as well. We need
>> five papers per session, or 20 papers in total.
>>
>> We need sessions and papers which are "outside the box". I'm
>> interested in what ideas you have for these. Some thoughts that I have
>> are
>> - P2 through purchasing agreements (aka performance based
>> purchasing) Two professors from N.Ill State University presented an
>> extremely interesting paper on what the automotive industry has done.
>> It would be good to hear what's being done in our industry (ies).
>>
>> - EHS management system software programs
>> Gabe Crognale presented an interesting paper at IPC Expo last week.
>> There was good interest in his topic. Are there more examples of this
>> whether in our industry (ies) or not?
>>
>> - Use/reuse
>> This topic can range from saving $$ and WWT costs as delineated in
>> DfE case study 5 on how to reuse microetchant four times before
>> disposal to how to exempt WWT sludge from F006 regulation. I think
>> both areas are vastly underutilized in our industry.
>>
>> - Innovative processing techniques
>> Where are we in 1998 (1999 conference) relative to the Project
>> Ecocircuit model. Specifically 1) no chelated metals, 2) no tin/lead
>> (solder) use, 3) on-site etchant recycling, 4) 75% water recycling and
>> bottom line 5) 0.5-1% of sales for waste management? What demonstrated
>> that will get us there and beyond?
>>
>> - Benchmarking
>> Seems like what we'v done so far is acceptable to many. Perhaps we
>> could look at the ratios for the 1997 data, and if acceptable, pursue
>> 1998 data for Expo 1999, which will be only two months from the AESF
>> conference.
>>
>> - Other topics???
>>
>> CAN WE GET AT LEAST FIVE PAPERS PER SESSION ON THESE TOPICS?
>> Lee Wilmot
>> HADCO Corp
>> [log in to unmask]
>> 603/896-2424
>
If you have an idea for a specific paper, please e-mail IPC's Director of
Environmental Programs, Holly Evans, at [log in to unmask]
>
Holly Evans
Director of Environmental and Safety Programs
IPC
1400 Eye St., N.W., Suite 540
Washington, D.C. 20005-2208
phone: 202-638-6219
fax: 202-638-0145
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