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Jim Grant's Trivia
Paint Sludge
Did
you know that Toyota Motor Manufacturing Co. in Georgetown, KY produces
over 40,000 gallons of paint sludge a month? Waste management companies
were offering Toyota attractive rates to haul and dispose of the sludge
in landfills. Toyota chose an alternative. A company called EPI Technologies
found a use for paint sludge and Toyota now sends their waste product
to them. The question; What is EPI doing with Toyota's paint sludge?
A.
Creating decorative garden borders.
B. Manufacturing roofing material.
C. Additive for low-strength concrete.
D. Road building material.
Toyota's
Georgetown, KY facility produces over 40,000 gallons of paint sludge a
month. Toyota could have allowed waste management companies to haul and
dispose of their waste product in area landfills. Instead, Toyota opted
to pay an additional 20 to 25% to have their paint sludge recycled. So
what is EPI technologies doing with Toyota's paint sludge? The answer
is, A,B,C, and D, all of the above. EPI technologies processes the paint
sludge into a pulverized building material that is used in manufacturing
of decorative garden borders, roofing material, low strength concrete
and road building material.
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