LONG TERM ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY PLANS
The Department of Correction continues with two long-term projects. The first is Recycling of Drums at the Correction Enterprise Paint Plant.
This project involves reducing the amount of steel to be recycled. The steel was generated by 30-gallon steel drums that were no longer suitable for packaging and shipping of traffic paint to the Department of Transportation Traffic Service Division. The average life span of a drum was five cycles, after which it was cleaned, crushed, and sold as scrap metal.
The process was made sustainable through the utilization of drum liners and elimination of the emissions produced by burning out the drums (recycling). The liner also increased the life span of the drum as well as reduced the overall cost incurred through the packaging of traffic marking materials. The increased life span of the drums was estimated to decrease the amount of steel scrap produced by an estimated 90% and cut packaging costs by 50%.
Contact: Mark Lenhart, Paint Plant Director, (919) 989-8696.
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