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... Such information usually describes only material flows across facility boundaries; closure is not the goal. Examples of information used in MA are shipment records of raw materials into a facility and production records indicating the specific amounts of chemicals contained in products shipped from the faci lity.
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... Any of the following activities performed on wastes generated within a facility: recycling and/or reuse on site; recycling and/or reuse off site; modifying equipment and/or technology; modifying production and/or processing procedures; redesigning and/or reformulating a product; substituting raw materials; improving housekeeping, training, and inventory control; and any other technique that results in the reduction or elimination of waste released to any environmental medium. Waste-reduction efficiency.
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  • balance data
  • facility boundaries
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  • chemical substances
  • manufacturing facility
  • substituting raw
  • chemical release

  • material flows
  • current collection
  • tradename product
  • final rule
  • records indicating

  • sara section
  • environmental medium
  • information reported
  • obtain information
  • modifying production

  • products shipped
  • reporting final
  • toxic effects
  • collected routinely
  • processing procedures


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