§ 13-11-2-27.6 — "Clean manufacturing"

Indiana § 13-11-2-27.6

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 11: DEFINITIONS

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6. (a) "Clean manufacturing", for purposes
of IC 13-12 and IC 13-27, means the employment by a manufacturer of
a practice that:
(1) reduces the manufacturing use of toxic materials; or
(2) reduces the environmental and health hazards associated with
an environmental waste without diluting or concentrating the
waste before the:
(A) recycling;
(B) release;
(C) handling;
(D) storage;
(E) transport;
(F) treatment; or
(G) disposal;
of the waste.
(b) The term includes changes in production technology, materials,
processes, operations, or procedures.
(c) The term does not include the following:
(1) A practice that is applied to an environmental waste after the
waste:
(A) is generated or comes into existence; or
(B) exits a production unit or operation.
(2) Waste burning in:
(A) industrial furnaces;
(B) boilers;
(C) smelters; or
(D) cement kilns;
for purposes of energy recovery.
(3) Waste shifting.
(4) Offsite recycling.
(5) Onsite recycling, including the following:
(A) Inprocess recycling.
(B) Inline recycling.
(C) Out-of-process recycling.
(D) Closed loop recycling.
(E) Any other onsite recycling method.
(6) Any other method of end-of-pipe management of
environmental wastes, including the following:
(A) Waste exchange.
(B) The incorporation or embedding of regulated environmental
wastes into products or byproducts.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.124-1997, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.37-2012, SEC.2.