Solvent printer Ink – Waste

[Kevin Flowers]

Dave
your local waste transfer station will have a disposal point for oil, paint etc basically anything with VOC’s, it can be disposed of there. they may charge as its business waste depends how much you have.

Kev

[g5graphics]

Hi Dave,
not sure about disposing of the waste at your local dump. We have a drum which is collected when it’s full. Your also required by law to dispose of the containers in a similar manner. We arranged ours through Sericol. As far as I’m aware it all has to be dealt with by companies who are licensed to deal with these kind of chemicals.
Regards,
John.

[David Rowland]

ok thanks and interesting too see Sericol getting involved with I guess Silk Screen.

Ok Kevin, I will check that out. Anyone else, I know there is about 10 people here have Cadets/Grenadiers!

[John Cornfield]

get intouch with sericol they take waste solvent back for screen printers.

http://www.sericol.co.uk/Environmental/ … mental.htm

[Robert Lambie]

i just get one of the apprentices to pour it down the sink. then rinse away with some turps… dead easy, just make sure he doesn’t have a cigarette in his mouth at the time.

wot? 😮

before anyone starts… I’m joking 😉

[Stephen Morriss]

Wot you mean your joking, isn’t that what your supposed to do :yikes:

Wow there’s some good emoticons in there.

Steve

[Robert Lambie]

i mean i was joking about the cigarette, its not that flammable. 😉 (hot)

[David Rowland]

I have heard enough jokes within the company about this…
…noted John, I may do that just to get some figures.
Wanted to get everyones response as I know health and safety is paramount in the workplace, right?

[Nicola McIntosh]

its a huge issue now..i remember when the health and safety just started out with it 😕 absolute nightmare and the costs were out of order 🙄
goodness knows what sericol will charge though, i shudder to think 😀
i buy in 25 litre drums of thinners, but there is never any remains as they are all soaked onto the rags…which i just burn every week 😀

nik

[Gavin]

Quite right, Sericol will charge a small fortune for effectively ringing a waste company to arrange a collection when you can arrange it yourself.

Try:

http://www.wastecare.co.uk/

Also as of 16th July 2005, if you are a hazardous waste producer you will need to register your premises with the Environment Agency

[drogers4]

My local oil change facility accepts containers of used oil etc. for disposal for no charge. Not sure if this is where ink should be disposed though? It might be worth asking anyway.

[Print-man]

Interesting topic Dave, as a JV3 user can I ask how you dispose of your ink cartridges as they also contain solvents even when they are finished ?

[David Rowland]

We stack the empties high to block the light thru windows.
We took one appart once, however it was an old 220ml, found the bladder compleltly flat an empty. So in my view it is a plastic case.
However a 440ml never does run out, firmware is set so they dont run out. It is a problem I want to address, so that’s why my posts.

[Print-man]

I am fortunate that we have a paint shop and all the excess solvent goes into their drum and is taken away for disposal, but it took me about 9 months to find a company that takes away the cartridges and re-cycles them for the white plastic.
Its a touchy subject for a lot of companies as I found and they are vague in disclosing their disposal procedures.
Have you ever changed your filter on the extractor yet ?

I managed to get that taken away by Biffa at a cost of course.