Non-routine Wastes Construction Projects Plant Expansions at - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Plant Expansions at Grifols, Clayton, NC

Non-routine Wastes – Construction Projects

Samuel S. Vedder, Sr. ESS, Environmental March 23, 2016, Mfg. Zero Waste Conference, Wilmington, NC

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• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in Clayton, NC
• ~1600 employees, ~250 acres
• Manufactures products from human plasma
• Participant in NCDENR’s Environmental Stewardship Initiative (Rising Steward level)
• ISO 14001 Equivalent Program

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Plasma Logistics Center New Warehouse Multi-Purpose Facility

3 Significant Expansions in 2013-2015

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Fully automated high-rise -30

• C freezer and 2-story processing facility for plasma

receipt, shipping, and classification.

83,560 square feet 5,100 pallet spaces Capacity to store 3 million liters of human plasma

Plasma Logistics Center

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for additional space to consolidate offsite storage facilities and support the continued growth of the Clayton site.

64,000 square feet 3,900 pallet spaces First LEED Certified building in Johnston County, North Carolina

New Raw Material Warehouse

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For processing and purifying immune globulins from survivors of rare diseases.

8,000 square feet Unique construction building within a building Enclosed and isolated from the rest of the site

Multi-Purpose Facility

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Critical Steps in Construction Waste Management

Train Segregate Track & Report Enforce (if necessary)

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• Required for all contractors every six months
• Especially important to have engineers and construction

managers on-board

• Monitoring and feedback

Training of Contractors

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Metal Wood Cardboard

Segregation of Construction Waste

Concrete Asphalt Trash

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84 83 73 84 82 66 68 81 92 4 5 5 16 17 27 16 18 34 32 19 8 96 95 95 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% IG - 2013 IG - 2014 IG - 2015 GBI - 2013 GBI - 2014 GBI - 2015 GTI - 2013 GTI - 2014 GTI - 2015 GPO - 2013 GPO - 2014 GPO - 2015 Dark color - Diverted Light color - Landfilled

Waste Diverted from Landfill

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Cafeteria Waste Composting

• Food prep waste only – no post consumer
• Monday through Friday
• Average 92 pounds per day
• Sent to anaerobic digester
• Also save all food cans for metal recycling

Next Steps

• Converting to compostable dinnerware
• Collecting post consumer waste

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Samuel S. Vedder Grifols Therapeutics Inc. (919) 359-4108 samuel.vedder@grifols.com

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