“HAZARD WASTE OPTIONS” 1980s ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY TOXIC WASTE MANAGEMENT FILM XD44954
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This film from the Environmental Protection Agency focuses on the effort to handle thousands of tons of hazardous waste produced annually as well as the clean-up effort of the waste already abandoned in the environment. It describes modem hazardous waste management technology,
and documents acceptable methods for controlling hazardous wastes.
Rusted 55-gallon drums of hazardous waste (:28). Waste being pumped into lagoons (1:15). Toxic material could penetrate into the ground (1:22). Toxic bubbles from the production of paints, pesticides, plastics, leather, medicines (1:37). An industrial waste recycling plant employee refuels his vehicle (2:18). This plant receives waste from a manufacturer of ink paint and furniture among other products (2:23). Employees work to remove impurities from the waste (2:27) using a distillation process. The waste can also be blended into a fuel (2:37). Waste oil is recycled by another division of the company (2:54) as a sample is pulled from a truck here (2:59). A centrifuge is used to determine the oil content (3:08). A second sample is pulled in order to determine the oil’s characteristics after receiving chemical and heat treatment (3:33). Another sample is shown to be pulled from an underground tank (4:01). The industrial liquids recycling branch then receives the samples (4:12). A Somerset Oil Inc tank is loaded up with thousands of gallons of recycled oil (4:20). Oily wastes (4:44), acid wastes (4:46) and caustic wastes are mixed together in order to neutralize one another (4:50). A sedimentation tank (5:03) follows which will have its sludge pulled from the bottom of the tank. A bulldozer creates hazardous waste landfill cells (5:58). The forklift adds another 55-gallon drum to a pile (6:11) which are mainly used for solid waste materials. The drums are seen covered in order to keep waste in and rainwater out (6:34). The bulldozer moves earth covering over the cell as a final step (6:48). The film turns to another hazardous waste landfill, equipment moves across a loading platform (7:00). Trucks move down into the cell (7:19). A trailer truck stands upended in the cell (7:26). Signs designate a ‘Hard Hat Area’ (8:02). Technical support team member flips through paperwork in a cubicle (8:09). Lab work is conducted as samples are tested (8:40). A sample is injected for a gas chromatographic analysis (8:58). As waste is delivered, they are tested (9:32). These studies are conducted in order to prevent events such as the ‘Valley of the Drums’ in Kentucky, and ‘Love Canal’; the site of a massive environmental disaster in the 1970s (10:02). Two ponds hold liquids to receive treatment (10:15). Liquid pesticide wastes here are absorbed prior to disposal in the cell (10:28). Wells are pointed to from which liquids can be pumped out when necessary (10:51). Other wells to test ground water around the site (11:02). Concrete pits are used to mix the liquid waste (11:13). Injection plowing (11:55). An electrical pumping system to remove leachate (12:29). Contaminated empty drums (12:43) must be crushed prior to burial. A pile of contaminated hoses must be buried (13:07). The site shown is one of the few available which can accept PCP’s for disposal (13:15). A high temperature incinerator follows (13:34). An Air Vortex Stationary burner is pointed to (13:44). A venturi wet scrubber is ideal for the incinerator’s control system (14:38). Cooling water is shown which is recycled (14:48). Another disposal method is deep well injection (14:56). For the land treatment method, biodegradable wastes are plowed into or spread onto the soil (16:07) and cultivated periodically. Samples are pulled after five days (16:18). After nine days, conversion proceeds (16:25) and after two weeks, the waste appears as a brownish soil again (16:28). An aerial tank of a wastewater treatment facility (16:43). Vehicles approach the gates, which utilize high security methods (17:34). The truck driver is seen presenting the waste generators manifest (18:25) listing all types of waste and quantities. Civilians protest a landfill located near homes in Maryland (19:16) as the Forest Heights Police sit nearby (19:21). A few landfill sites are shown which have been set far from residential homes (20:22). Years prior, waste was set aflame (20:54). The film wraps up with an overview of the new options for disposal of hazardous waste (22:00).
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Whoever added the background “music” had clearly been huffing the waste fumes
LOL!
80,s music…toxic waste, nice juxtaposition.
Lmao no i like the music 😂 the narrator however may have been made sleepy by the fumes tho lolol
@@fujifrontier They borrowed the record from the porno guys across the hall
The narrator sounds similar to the "pathologist" in the original Faces of Death. Very unsettling....not to mention how hastily waste was discarded at times.
Shout out to the quirky soundtrack.
WOW! It happened over 40 years ago and it's still scary beyond belief! It would be interesting to check in on the sites shown in this video to see how it all worked out... or didn't! YEESH!
They probably built a school on the dump site....That's how they rolled back in the day!
Precision reporting. I used to do that for oily waste at my plant. My god the paperwork. Get one punctuation mark out of place and you are fined.
"America's hazardous waste crisis has materialized because no one, government, industries, public, fully realized how harmful some of our waste can be."
They most definitely knew how hazardous it was. The last generation fully believed a buck today is worth more than 50 tomorrow. Let the next generation deal with it.
I agree - but on the other hand, if you look at photos of the Valley of the Drums (just one example), there are houses within walking distance of it. They built houses and schools in Love Canal and let people move in. I don't know how they could have done these things unless they really thought the waste wouldn't be a problem. But then, how can you be that stupid? Nobody in their right mind would want to be anywhere near this stuff. It just doesn't make sense to me.
@@dariosmagata8481some of it might be incompetence people didn't know any better, but you best believe that lawyers and attorneys were told or told their bosses not to talk about (or allow the public to find out that they already knew about this problem) the a. They were naive (fairly unlikely) be they knew what they were doing was wrong but they cared more about corporate profits(if you want to see a perfect example of this look at the story of the radium girls in the 1910s and 20s or the DuPont dark Waters documentary about the waist of Teflon being dumped into the river for over 30 years before an older farmer realized in the late 80s that his cows were dying of strange circumstances they were drinking the water that had been contaminated by pfoa which is a byproduct of Teflon and they were rotting from the inside out and they were having all sorts of problems with cancer, as were many of the citizens who lived on the Ohio River in the 60s and 70s and 80s many of them got cancer or other horrible diseases that water was what they used to shower with with the drink it was filtered but pfoa takes a thousand years 2 breakdown (hence why it's called a forever chemical) more than likely it is the second one don't get me wrong corporations making money is not a big problem but when an advisor of a company or the lawyer or the CEO tells the company to be quiet about the dangers to the public or the cancer causes or death possibilities from their products for the waste product of what they make that is not only evil but it is about the greatest thing you can do it should be illegal but even with the FDA and the protection agency unfortunately they can be paid off or told to shut up because they have lobbyists in the company who can basically threaten anybody who tries to get the truth out to the public.
@@dariosmagata8481Often it’s not stupidity as much as it is intentional ignorance. Take for example, Love Canal. Hooker Chemical (The company that dumped most of the waste) specifically warned the town government that the land shouldn’t be used for anything more than a park. The town ignored the warning, and promptly built a school and a neighborhood. A lot of the time, people won’t hear what they don’t want to hear.
2:50 to 4:40 Hats off to the fellow with his glorious red beard...he seems to be doing a lot of hard work in his field, from collection of waste products in different locations to being a laboratory chemist analyzing samples for further processing and disposal...just curious if he ever analyzed any hair sample from his beard, as hair is known as an indicator of exposure to, and ingestion of certain toxic chemicals collected in the body over time.
The good ol times of: Not my problem anymore.
My friend's dad was a big-wig metallurgist in the nuclear power industry... He's said some things that make us wonder what's actually under his belt. He told his son (my buddy) that he was an aircraft mechanic in the military but my buddy said he helped him change an alternator in a truck once and that he was completely lost turning a wrench... So what the hell did he ACTUALLY do in the military? I remember in looking at the stars one night and talking about constellations, then he points up and says that sometimes you can see satellites at the right time of night. He pointed one out and low and behold it was a tiny shining dot booking across the sky, way faster than any aircraft... What was this man into??? He's like "The scary thing is that's probably not ours." Anyway he was working at the Savannah River site just before he retired. He's a paranoid preper type.
Very informative
Horror 80s mutant zombies music
Petrochemicals: couldn't live with them, couldn't live without them.
The worst waste is hair
Especially blond hair
Especially in your shower drain.
LOL!
PPE, what's that?
Do you mean PCBs (13:14)?
It stands for Polychlorinated Biphenyls which are highly carcinogenic and environmentally mutagenic compounds that were banned in the USA in the late 1970s
@@Methylenedream he's probably being sarcastic, observing that no one is wearing moon suits lol
@@fujifrontier I was curious myself if that was the joke, but it was the 80s what PPE would you expect
@@fujifrontier winner winner chicken dinner!
Who is this narrator?
Pretty sure the narrator is William Shatner.
He did the narration for "Trinity and Beyond" in the 90s too.
That was a great movie, watched it many times lol
It definitely sounds like him.
No it wasn't.
f,,,,,,,it red beard it thats it thats all
The lack of protective equipment being worn by these workers might well be lethal