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13-11-2-27.6. "Clean manufacturing"

IN Code § 13-11-2-27.6 (2019) (N/A)
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Sec. 27.6. (a) "Clean manufacturing", for purposes of IC 13-12 and IC 13-27, means the employment by a manufacturer of a practice that:

(1) reduces the manufacturing use of toxic materials; or

(2) reduces the environmental and health hazards associated with an environmental waste without diluting or concentrating the waste before the:

(A) recycling;

(B) release;

(C) handling;

(D) storage;

(E) transport;

(F) treatment; or

(G) disposal;

of the waste.

(b) The term includes changes in production technology, materials, processes, operations, or procedures.

(c) The term does not include the following:

(1) A practice that is applied to an environmental waste after the waste:

(A) is generated or comes into existence; or

(B) exits a production unit or operation.

(2) Waste burning in:

(A) industrial furnaces;

(B) boilers;

(C) smelters; or

(D) cement kilns;

for purposes of energy recovery.

(3) Waste shifting.

(4) Offsite recycling.

(5) Onsite recycling, including the following:

(A) Inprocess recycling.

(B) Inline recycling.

(C) Out-of-process recycling.

(D) Closed loop recycling.

(E) Any other onsite recycling method.

(6) Any other method of end-of-pipe management of environmental wastes, including the following:

(A) Waste exchange.

(B) The incorporation or embedding of regulated environmental wastes into products or byproducts.

As added by P.L.124-1997, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.37-2012, SEC.2.

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