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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Consider becoming a channel member This film from the Environmental Protection Agency focuses on the effort to handle thousands of tons of hazardous waste produced annually as well as the clean-up effort of the waste already abandoned in the environment. It describes modem hazardous waste management technology, and documents acceptable methods for controlling hazardous wastes. Rusted 55-gallon drums of hazardous waste (:28). Waste being pumped into lagoons (1:15). Toxic material could penetrate into the ground (1:22). Toxic bubbles from the production of paints, pesticides, plastics, leather, medicines (1:37). An industrial waste recycling plant employee refuels his vehicle (2:18). This plant receives waste from a manufacturer of ink paint and furniture among other products (2:23). Employees work to remove impurities from the waste (2:27) using a distillation process. The waste can also be blended into a fuel (2:37). Waste oil is recycled by another division of the company (2:54) as a sample is pulled from a truck here (2:59). A centrifuge is used to determine the oil content (3:08). A second sample is pulled in order to determine the oil’s characteristics after receiving chemical and heat treatment (3:33). Another sample is shown to be pulled from an underground tank (4:01). The industrial liquids recycling branch then receives the samples (4:12). A Somerset Oil Inc tank is loaded up with thousands of gallons of recycled oil (4:20). Oily wastes (4:44), acid wastes (4:46) and caustic wastes are mixed together in order to neutralize one another (4:50). A sedimentation tank (5:03) follows which will have its sludge pulled from the bottom of the tank. A bulldozer creates hazardous waste landfill cells (5:58). The forklift adds another 55-gallon drum to a pile (6:11) which are mainly used for solid waste materials. The drums are seen covered in order to keep waste in and rainwater out (6:34). The bulldozer moves earth covering over the cell as a final step (6:48). The film turns to another hazardous waste landfill, equipment moves across a loading platform (7:00). Trucks move down into the cell (7:19). A trailer truck stands upended in the cell (7:26). Signs designate a ‘Hard Hat Area’ (8:02). Technical support team member flips through paperwork in a cubicle (8:09). Lab work is conducted as samples are tested (8:40). A sample is injected for a gas chromatographic analysis (8:58). As waste is delivered, they are tested (9:32). These studies are conducted in order to prevent events such as the ‘Valley of the Drums’ in Kentucky, and ‘Love Canal’; the site of a massive environmental disaster in the 1970s (10:02). Two ponds hold liquids to receive treatment (10:15). Liquid pesticide wastes here are absorbed prior to disposal in the cell (10:28). Wells are pointed to from which liquids can be pumped out when necessary (10:51). Other wells to test ground water around the site (11:02). Concrete pits are used to mix the liquid waste (11:13). Injection plowing (11:55). An electrical pumping system to remove leachate (12:29). Contaminated empty drums (12:43) must be crushed prior to burial. A pile of contaminated hoses must be buried (13:07). The site shown is one of the few available which can accept PCP’s for disposal (13:15). A high temperature incinerator follows (13:34). An Air Vortex Stationary burner is pointed to (13:44). A venturi wet scrubber is ideal for the incinerator’s control system (14:38). Cooling water is shown which is recycled (14:48). Another disposal method is deep well injection (14:56). For the land treatment method, biodegradable wastes are plowed into or spread onto the soil (16:07) and cultivated periodically. Samples are pulled after five days (16:18). After nine days, conversion proceeds (16:25) and after two weeks, the waste appears as a brownish soil again (16:28). An aerial tank of a wastewater treatment facility (16:43). Vehicles approach the gates, which utilize high security methods (17:34). The truck driver is seen presenting the waste generators manifest (18:25) listing all types of waste and quantities. Civilians protest a landfill located near homes in Maryland (19:16) as the Forest Heights Police sit nearby (19:21). A few landfill sites are shown which have been set far from residential homes (20:22). Years prior, waste was set aflame (20:54). The film wraps up with an overview of the new options for disposal of hazardous waste (22:00). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
