From: karlr@think.com (Karl Rotstan)
Newsgroups: alt.destroy.the.earth
Subject: DoD sabotages The Plan
Date: 25 Aug 1992 18:59:29 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: custard.think.com
Summary: DoD cleans up its act :(


What follows is simply UNACCEPTABLE!  Something has gone terribly wrong in
the Pentaghon when DoD actually REDUCES waste!  Who do they think they are
anyway?  This is a major setback to The Plan.  :(

I urge all military personnel who see this to take appropriate actions in
order to fulfill The Plan.

karl...

             DEPARTMENT  OF  DEFENSE  REDUCES  HAZARDOUS  WASTE  

     The Department of Defense announced today that, based on calendar year
1991 data, it has reduced its hazardous waste disposal by 53.9 percent since
1987.  The Department in June 1987 established a goal of reducing hazardous
waste by 50 percent before the end of 1992.  

     Most of the reduction, more than 85 percent, can be attributed to less
waste generation at DoD industrial-type facilities.  These facilities, such as
arsenals, shipyards, maintenance depots and air logistics centers, account for
the majority, about 60 percent, of all the hazardous waste generated by the
Department.  The remainder is generated from such areas as daily installation
operations and training facilities.

     The Department recognizes that the key to a cleaner environment is
pollution prevention through source reduction.  With that in mind, the mili-
tary's pollution prevention strategy emphasizes four areas.  The areas and
examples of current and future programs are:

   7 SYSTEMS  ACQUISITION -- The Air Force prohibited the use of certain
     hazardous materials in the design, manufacture, and operation of the new
     F-22 fighter plane with no sacrifice of cost, schedule or performance.
     Prohibited materials included chlorofluorocarbons, cadmium and chromium. 

   7 MATERIAL  SUBSTITUTION -- Kelly Air Force Base, Tex. replaced cyanide
     stripping baths with non-cyanide strippers.  The base saved $390,000
     annually on treatment and disposal costs.   Scranton Army Ammunition
     Plant, Pa. eliminated the use of chromic acid rinse as part of the process
     to prepare steel surfaces for painting.

   7 PROCESS  IMPROVEMENT -- Naval Aviation Depot Jacksonville, Fla. eliminated
     vapor degreasers by using an alternative cleaning process.  The depot
     eliminated 300,000 pounds of waste annually and reduced volatile organic
     compounds emissions by 66 percent.  Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant, Tex.
     saved $450,000 annually by reducing rainwater infiltration into their
     treatment system and eliminating 8.9 million gallons annually of hazardous
     waste water.

   7 IMPROVED  HAZARDOUS MATERIAL  MANAGEMENT -- Naval Air Weapons  Station,
     Point Mugu, Calif. developed a centralized hazardous material inventory
     control system.  In the first year, hazardous material purchases decreased
     49 percent, and hazardous waste disposal decreased 73 percent.


     The Department of Defense has demonstrated that it is a leader in pollu-
tion prevention by winning two of the Environmental Protection Agency's
Administrator's Pollution Prevention Awards for 1991.  The Navy Exploratory
Development Program, Warminster, Pa.  won for developing a new paint that
reduces volatile organic compounds and hazardous waste by 67 percent.  Fair-
child Air Force Base, Wash. won as a model for comprehensive pollution preven-
tion planning and implementation.  In addition, the Army Depot Systems Command,
Chambersburg, Pa. was a runner up for their program to pool pollution research
and development among several depots.

     The reduction numbers listed below are for all DoD installations in the
United States that shipped hazardous waste off-site for treatment and disposal.
Each military department and the Defense Logistics Agency submit reports
annually to the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Environment to report on their progress towards the reduction goal.  Tracked
for the goal are items that were regulated as hazardous wastes in 1987.  In
late 1992, DoD plans to establish a new baseline and set a new reduction goal.

                           Hazardous  Waste  Reductions 

                              (In Thousands of Pounds)

          All of DoD            -                      Industrial Portion


     Year   Total Waste Disposed/ %  Reduction       Total Waste Disposed/ %
                                        Reduction

     1987     346,770.2             base year                       base year
251,830.2

     1988     236,573.9             -31.8%               158,806.1
-36.9%

     1989     201,555.2             -41.9%               142,062.9
-43.6%

     1990     207,663.3*            -40.1%               145,102.9*
-42.2%

     1991     159,698.8              -53.9%                91,800.8
-63.5%

     *Slight increase was due to Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm activi-
ties.

                                     -END-






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