Programa de minimización de desechos peligrosos para la Refinería Esmeraldas

Abstract

The objetive of the Project was the elaborate of a minimization program for dangerous waste for Esmeraldas Refinery, and this considerated the risk that´s represent for health and environment the inadequate disposal of them. The identification of the generation process took place, based in the intern generation registers for waste and the results of inspection of all operational and administrative áreas of Esmeraldas Refinery. Later the information was organized into an inventory and codified based on the National Dangerous Waste List of the Environmental Ministery of Ecuador. Followed, mesasures of the reduction were established considering, hierarchy, the análisis of the current management system, the compliment legal and the activities during the refinery rehabilitation. Finally an action plan was proposed with accomplishment dates, responsable actors, indicators and verification measures. Suggested acction measures were focused in good manufacture and environmental practices such as: increase of awareness, improvement of use of chemical products and application of preventive maintenance of equipment. Waste object of minimization were: contaminated soil with hydrocarbons, expired medicines, expired chemical substances, oil with PCB, among others.