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DEPARTMENT OF Cb <br /> HEALTH SERVICES <br /> 776 P STREET, SACRAMENTO, CA, 95814 NEWO NLWS <br /> `NUMBER: T 30-91 DATE. May 17, 1991 <br /> FOR RELr:ASE IMMEDIATE CONTACT: iiil singleton <br /> (415) 540-3913 <br /> QTATZ GMS HORSE_ MAMRE CAN-_CLEAN8E_ nZARD0Rfi .WASU <br /> SACRAMENTO -- State Health Director Kenneth W. Kizer, M.D. , <br /> M.P.H. , today released a study that demonstrates how horse manure <br /> can be used to treat and recycle hazardous wastewaters generated <br /> in the printing and paint industries. <br /> r The treatment method, called biodegradation, uses <br /> naturally-occurring microbes present in horse manure to break <br /> down the hazardous constituents of water-based paints and inks. <br /> By-products of the process are carbon dioxide and reusable water. <br /> "This technology is both economical and effective at small <br /> and large scale operations, " Kizer said. "It 's fortuitous that <br /> we found such a simple and natural answer to an expensive and <br /> �W, complex environmental problem. " <br /> Nationwide, an estimated 30 million gallons of water-based <br /> ink wastes need treathesnt each year, as well as approximately <br /> two million gallons of water-basted paint wastes. Research in <br /> currently underway to expand usage of the technology to <br /> peaticidea and herbicides <br /> v IgRed by Wilills Fj_rM <br /> - TPiisa waste digestion system, called- the Advanced BIO-GEST, T T <br /> was developed two years ago by Advanced Manufacturing and <br /> Development of Willits, California. Successful operation of the <br /> Advanced BIG-GEST was demonstrated at the James River Corporation <br /> flexible packaging plant in San Leandro through a grant awarded <br /> by the Department of Health Services (DHS) . <br /> The Advanced BIO-GEST is being used at a dozen industrial <br /> locations, large and small, throughout California. The Advanced <br /> BTO-GEST is exempt from regulation under the state Hazardous <br /> Waste Control Law because it is an onsite treatment process that <br /> generates and reuses demineralized water within the production <br /> facility. <br /> -anare- <br />