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Dental practices generate a number of wastes (including hazardous wastes) that can be detrimental to the environment if not properly managed. This guide includes a list of pollution prevention principles and facts about waste management and the responsibility of the dental community to ensure prope…
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The Canada-wide Environmental Standards Sub-Agreement is a framework for federal, provincial, and territorial Environment Ministers to work together to address key environmental protection and health risk reduction issues that require common environmental standards across the country. The Canada-wi…
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Routine dental procedures generate waste materials that may be restricted or prohibited for discharge into the sanitary sewer system under the Capital Regional District’s (CRD) sewer use bylaw. Examples of such waste materials include spent x-ray processing solutions, chemiclave solutions, di…
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Environment Canada and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), promote activities that will reduce mercury releases to the Great Lakes Basin. This report describes the efforts of four dental mercury reduction programs and collates the lessons learned from these case studies into a discuss…
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Despite their low wastewater discharges when compared to traditional industries, dental offices are often the focus of mercury investigations due to high concentrations associated with amalgam usage. Through the implementation of many Best Management Practices (BMPs) to address mercury, silver, lea…
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This guide was developed to assist dentists in the selection and management of materials which will reduce or eliminate pollution from their dental practice. In addition to recommendations for preventing mercury pollution, suggestions are also given for preventing or reducing other wastes that may …
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This guide provides the dental community with guidelines on choosing environmentally-friendly products, recycling metal-bearing wastes, and correctly disposing of waste materials. Through pollution prevention, dental practices can reduce the regulatory requirements associated with wastes such as us…
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This publication gives guidance on how to handle dental wastes, and provides management options for select dental wastes. Waste reduction options are provided for amalgam wastes, elemental mercury, x-ray processing fixer and developer, lead-foil, and cleaning solvents and disinfectants. HTML and A…
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This web site of the Missouri Environmental Assistance Centre features a collection of external links to general pollution prevention resources. Subjects covered include auto body, auto repair, dental offices, dry cleaning, fiberglass operations, furniture manufacturing and refinishing, healthcare,…
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This guide demonstrates how to manage and recycle dental amalgam waste to help protect the environment by preventing the release of mercury. It provides a series of amalgam waste handling and disposal practices that include but are not limited to initiating bulk mercury collection programs; using c…
