An example is if shown that on a sufficient number of occasions, the aqueous material does come back hazardous, then the conservative approach is to assume its always hazardous. Although hazardous provides a barrier, it also increases the cost structure of the business. The customer has more knowledge today. Also in the future there will be a group of non-hazardous customers. To compete, SK must keep its costs low and therefore I would continue to follow the trend it started in 1993 to close some hazardous facilities.
Closing is from a permit status only.
The facility would still operate as a transfer facility. Hazardous waste generation has decreased due to waste minimization laws and taxation and that trend will continue. Facilities are still needed for much of this material is showing up as non-hazardous. SK had developed alliances with Church and Dwight, a supplier of aqueous cleaner, to substitute for the oil companies. SK could offer the POTW the assurance that aqueous cleaner user will not, on occasions, dump some cleaner with impurities that upset their treatment process.