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MERCURY FILTRATION COMPLIANCE

With today’s increasing awareness of mercury pollution in our waterways, methods of capturing waste amalgam and mercury from the dental office prior discharge into the public sewer, septic or landfill has become priority to all those involved.

Most dental practices have waste amalgam chairside traps and vacuum filters. Proper recycling and disposal of this hazardous waste material must occur according to local, state, and federal regulations. Even though these filters and traps are in place, an unseen large amount of waste mercury passes through into our environment. This unseen volume of hazardous waste is the result from removal of amalgam fillings that flow through the vacuum line passing through the chairside traps and vacuum filters, which have no effect on that size particulate.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has imposed allowable discharge limits of this material that can be made more stringent by your local POTW. Most allowable discharge limits are far below what is discharged currently. In able to meet the new stringent requirements, filtration of the wastewater from the vacuum pump is necessary prior discharge.

Healthcare Compliance Service provides ISO approved filtration service that complies with the most stringent allowable discharge limits. HCS provides several filtration units with disposal/recycling services to offer the variety of applications at the dental office.

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