Ethanol Recovery

Consumer Products and Industrial Ethanol Recovery

Ethanol is Recovered From Waste, Secure Brand Destruction is Assured

• Your waste may become RCRA exempt - recyling ethanol may eliminate hazardous waste categorization
• Recover ethanol from discarded consumer and pharmacecutical products, and industrial production
• Ethanol production reduces the demand for nonrenewable resources

Canditates

Veolia ES Technical Solutions offers secure brand destruction services for industrial and consumer products.  These products may include bulk liquids, returned package goods or products that are expired or cannot be sold for other reasons, and ethanol containing waste for manufacturing processes.  Among the consumer products that may qualify are mouthwash, flavorings, and perfume.

Ethanol Recovery

Once destroyed, these products are used to produce ethanol.  One potential use for the recovered ethanol is as a high octane automotive fuel that is blended with gasoline to reduce particulate emissions.  Each gallon of ethanol blended with gasoline displaces gasoline made from foreign crude oil.

Brand Protection

Veolia provides turnkey services that assure brand protection.  Your products are picked up by Veolia's vehicles at specified locations and transported anonymously to our facilities for processing.  Anonymity is assured throughout the process, and delivery to Veolia facilities is guaranteed.

Processing

Once the products arrive at Veolia's facilities, the liquid contents are separated from any packaging.  The packaging is recycled, if possible, and the liquids are processed.  Once the ethanol meets or stringent specifications, it is sold as a Veolia product.

Environmental Responsibility

This product disposal alternative eliminates the need for incineration or fuel blending.  These means of disposal carry the possibility of environmental liability in the future.  Producing ethanol from discarded products is a cost effective solution with the added benefit of producting a positive environmental impact.

Potential RCRA Exemptions

Sending industrial ethanol for disposal through incineration or fuel blending may subject that waste to Subtitle C of the Federal Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA).  One way to exempt industrial ethanol from RCRA regulation is through reclaiming the material, which eliminates some regulatory requirements, including:

• To supply and maintain copies of Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifests for shipments of ethyl alcohol that will be reclaimed; and
• To report the reclaimed ethyl alcohol on your biennial hazardous waste report.

The exemption could lessen the burden on the generator.  Since the material will be reclaimed, the regulatory oversight will be conducted by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) from generator to redistillation.