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Managing Hazardous Waste
The Refinery Hazardous Waste table shows the amount of hazardous waste, excluding wastewater, generated over the last five years at Sunoco's refineries. In 2004, Sunoco purchased the Eagle Point Refinery in Westville, New Jersey. Eagle Point's hazardous waste generation and disposal numbers are reflected in the 2004 totals. The totals do not include wastewater treated on-site pursuant to Clean Water Act regulations.
Refinery hazardous waste is separated into Total and Routine waste. Routine waste covers normal refinery operations and the total number includes wastes generated from special projects, unit shutdowns or other non-routine activities within the year. Refinery hazardous waste is broken out into Total and Routine waste. Routine waste covers normal refinery operations and the total number also includes wastes generated from special projects, unit shut downs or other non-routine activities within that year. The table shows a significant decrease in total hazardous waste and a small decrease in routine hazardous waste generated in 2005 compared with 2004. This decrease in total waste reflects more typical conditions during 2005, rather than a number of large scale projects, such as tank demolitions, that took place in 2004.
* Yabucoa Refinery, divested in 2001, included 2001. Eagle Point Refinery, acquired in 2004 is included in 2004 and 2005. The 2005 Hazardous Waste Management Table shows a summary of the hazardous waste amounts and management methods at Sunoco’s refineries and chemical plants for the year. This table reflects the wastes generated at Sunoco’s chemical facilities, and also includes the polyethylene plant wastes at the Bayport chemical facility in Texas that Sunoco operates for Equistar and, starting in 2005, the wastes at the Marcus Hook Polymers facility that Sunoco operates for the Epsilon joint venture. The chemical plant hazardous wastes differ from refinery hazardous wastes with the majority being high energy value or high BTU residues generated by the production processes. These wastes are recycled onsite as fuel for industrial boilers or at an offsite location. The majority (93.1 percent) of waste generated at chemical plants in 2005 was recycled on-site in facility boilers. The main off-site waste management for the chemical plants was incineration (5.5 percent).
The refinery hazardous waste numbers depicted in the table show the total amount of waste that was managed both on and offsite. In 2005, the amount land filled makes up roughly 8.8 percent of the total hazardous waste generated. Approximately 5.1 percent of hazardous waste is reclaimed off-site and the majority of waste (81.1 percent) is made up of water and oil that are removed onsite and either treated in wastewater treatment plants or recycled through the refinery oil system. A small percentage of refinery waste is either incinerated off-site (2.6 percent) or treated offsite (2.4 percent).
In addition to the wastes in the table above, Sunoco recycled/reclaimed offsite 56 tons of wastes (51 tons sent for fuel blending and 5 tons for incineration) from a polyethylene process unit at the Bayport Plant. The polyethylene process unit is operated by Sunoco, but is owned by Equistar Chemicals, L.P. Sunoco conducts environmental assessments at third-party waste transport, treatment and disposal facilities. A total of 31 site assessments were conducted in 2005. Nineteen of these were new site audits and twelve sites were previously approved sites that were re-audited. Sunoco's master list now includes approximately 300 such facilities. Begun in 2004 as a pilot program, Sunoco continued its Laboratory Audit Program in 2005. Six laboratories performing environmental compliance testing for the company were audited in 2005. The Laboratory Audit Program was an initiative of Sunoco’s Environmental Forum, and was established to foster oversight and validate data adequacy of third-party companies providing environmental-related data to Sunoco. |
HES Glossary
Conversion Table
Summary Report
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