AW addendum (glass): [ RadSafe ] LSC Cocktail and vials

[Franz Schönhofer]

Sorry, I forgot to write about glass vials. I remember that some
companies offered "LSC vial crushers", which are used to minimize the
volume of waste and therefore the disposal costs. 

I used only PE vials, because we did low-level counting. The vials were
burnt full as they were and I joked that the incinerator company should
pay us because of the organic solvent and the PE that saved fuel, but
unfortunately they did not agree.

If the contaminated cocktail could be drained legally then it should be
possible to burn it.

Best regards,

Franz

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The question is, what kind of material the vials are made of. If they
are made of polyethylene then it would be the best to rinse and simply
burn them to save both time and manpower and costs for washing. 

Regards,

Franz

Franz Schoenhofer
PhD, MR iR
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Vienna
AUSTRIA
phone -43-0699-1168-1319


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im
> Auftrag von Alan Watts
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 15. März 2005 21:32
> An: Cindy Weeks; radsafe at radlab.nl
> Betreff: Re: [ RadSafe ] LSC Cocktail and vials
> 
> wash and reuse
> 
> Alan
> 
> Alan Watts
> RSO
> Ohio University
> 
> --On Monday, March 14, 2005 9:32 AM -0500 Cindy Weeks
> <cindyweeks_4 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone on this list (probably more for
universities,
> > but...) disposes of contaminated cocktail down the drain (if
approved by
> > town), and if so, what do you do with the vials afterwards?  (THIS
IS
> FOR
> > NON - RCRA of course)
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Cindy Weeks
> >