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rACT SHEET <br /> California aepartment Health Services <br /> Toxic SubstanControi Pr%,am <br /> Alternative Techology D#visilon - <br /> Water-Band. Ink •RolluCTtUw <br /> Wastes: <br /> Biodegradation In the printing industry today both solvent based and <br /> `technology water based inks are being used. New regulations - <br /> however, discourage the use of solvent based inks <br /> because they vaporize easily and solvent vapors <br /> contribute to air pollution and photochemical smog. <br /> 116 means water based ranks will eventually becortae <br /> more widely used. The amount of water based inks i <br /> used in 1989 nationwide is shown in Table A below. <br /> Table A <br /> _pion of WutX. ce <br /> Industry Yr <br /> - - - - _ -Newspaper Flexography 5 - 10 million lbs. ` <br /> Plastic Packaging 20 million lbs, <br /> (Flexible Packtng) <br /> Corregated Contamers 100 - 120 million lbs. <br /> In the plastic packaglung industry, it is estimated that , <br /> for every pound of virgin ink used, twice that amount <br /> ends up as waste. Jbis would mean that approximately <br /> 40 million pounds of ink waste was produced in the <br /> plastic packaging industry alone in the United States in <br /> Funded by the DHS 1989, and this figure is on the rise. <br /> AB 665 Grant Program <br /> d• - <br />