Document ID: EPA-HQ-RCRA-2003-0004-0407
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2006-12-21T05:00Z

Site
visit:
Royal
Business
Forms
&
Printing
4000
83rd
Avenue.
Brooklyn
Park,
MN
55443
Participants:
Keith
Futhey
 
Plant
Manager
Mary
McCarthy
Teena
Wooten­
EPA
OSW
Jim
O'Leary­
EPA­
OSW
Nancy
Ellefson­
MN
Pollution
Control
Agency
Date:
May
11,
2006
Jim
O'Leary
and
Teena
Wooten
with
the
Environmental
Protection
Agency's
Office
of
Solid
Waste
and
Nancy
Ellefson
with
the
Minnesota
Pollution
Control
Agency
visited
the
Royal
Business
Forms
&
Printing
facility
in
Brooklyn
Park,
MN
on
May
11,
2006.
Royal
Business
Forms
&
Printing
(
RBFP)
prints
promotional
item
such
as
checks,
direct
mail,
and
business
forms.
The
firm's
customers
are
mostly
distributors.
The
facility
has
not
moved
to
digital
because
the
economics
are
not
there.
RBFP
has
two
shifts
Monday
thru
Friday
and
employees
100
people.

Approximately
2500­
4000
reusable
wipes
are
generated
per
week.
The
number
of
wipes
depends
on
the
workload.
RBFP
uses
a
contractor
to
centrifuge
the
wipes
generated
by
the
company.
Jim,
Teena,
and
Nancy
observed
the
centrifuging
of
several
containers
of
wipes.
Approximately
7­
8
gallons
of
solvent
were
recovered
from
600
towels.
The
company
is
a
small
quantity
generator.
They
generate
two
55­
gallon
drums
a
month.
The
oil
generated
from
maintenance
of
the
printing
machines
is
mixed
with
the
solvent
and
shipped
to
an
incinerator.

Over
the
last
10­
15
years
the
company
has
changed
the
materials
it
uses
to
less
hazardous
ones.
However,
most
of
the
water
soluble
solvents
do
not
work
and
cost
more.
The
company
has
also
stopped
combining
its
non­
hazardous
waste
inks
with
the
hazardous
rags.
This
has
reduced
the
laundry
costs
and
solvent
use.
Over
the
last
five
years,
the
company
has
reduced
its
waste
paper
by
32%.