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Jeremie Edwards
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Noria Corporation
ENERGY CONSERVATION, HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT
Factor: E1P
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Factor:
E1P — Energy Conser-
vation, Health &
Environmental
Impact
Level:
Platform (P)
Stage:
Energy Conservation,
Health & Environment
About:
Companies should
carefully monitor their
energy conservation and
environmental impact.
New and used lubricants
can cause significant
damage when not
disposed of properly.
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Must be Something in
the Water: Aqueous Toxicity
A nybody who has
work e d a ny w here
that deals in larger
volumes of oil (I'm
talking anything over five gallons)
knows that you never spill more
than five gallons at a time. I'm not
really sure where this number came
from, but it generally holds true. e
actual volumes can vary from state
to state, country to country, where
the oil is spilled (ground spill, water
spill, concrete, etc.) or the actual
type of lubricant. So, the five-gallon
mark is a pretty conservative way of
looking at this. If our biggest spill
is five gallons, we likely won't need
to report the spill to any alphabet
organization and cause a whole lot
of headache.
Why do we even need
to worry about spills?
Well, it turns out that almost
everything on earth needs water to
live, and when we start introducing
random stuff to the water supply,
we start making that water unfit
for consumption. In fact, there's a
pretty good chance that the water
will have stuff in it that will lead to
major health concerns — ever heard
of Flint, Michigan? Yeah yeah, I
know; Flint's issues were caused
by a number of things: lead pipes,
contaminated water, organic and
inorganic contaminants, trihalo-
methanes, etc., but the comparison
still holds true with groundwater and