Alpha Omega Recycling Inc. (AORI) accepts a growing list of materials at its Longview, Texas, and Jackson, Ohio, hazardous and nonhazardous processing facilities.
According to AORI President Mark Wayne, that list includes the following items generated by a variety of industrial, mining, chemical, pharmaceutical and petro-chemical industries, as well as health care sector customers:
Listed Hazardous Wastes (Code of Federal Regulations)
- F006 - Wastewater treatment sludges from electroplating operations
- F019 - Wastewater treatment sludges from the chemical conversion coating of aluminum
- K061 - Electric arc furnace dust
- K171 - Spent hydro-treating catalyst
- K172 - Spent hydro-refining catalyst
Characteristic Hazardous Wastes (Code of Federal Regulations)
- D002 - Characteristically corrosive
- D003 - Characteristically reactive
- D004 - Contains arsenic
- D005 - Contains barium
- D006 - Contains cadmium
- D007 - Contains chromium
- D008 - Contains lead
- D009 - Contains mercury
- D010 - Contains selenium
- D011 - Contains silver
Nonhazardous Waste Streams:
- Liquids, solids and sludges contaminated with metals
- Inorganic byproduct and surplus
- Spent catalysts (containing nickel, copper or zinc)
- Drying agents
- Slags and scale
- Metal over-spray
- Precious metals contaminated streams
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