<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Here at the University of Michigan, our EHS department would pick up the task of either decontaminating them so that they could be disposed of with normal waste, or finding a disposal company that would take the contaminated waste. They handle our weekly chemical waste disposal, and have disposed of contaminated equipment for us, up to and including an Arsenic/Phosphorous GSMBE tool that caught on fire when we tried to clean it internally. That was quite an event....</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I would start by asking your local University waste department (whatever they may be called) and see what they say. If there's pushback from them, I can pass along our local waste vendor to see if they could assist.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div>Dennis<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Schweiger</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">University of Michigan/LNF</span></div><div> </div><div>734.647.2055 Ofc<br></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 9:13 AM Mark Walters, Ph.D. <<a href="mailto:mark.walters@duke.edu">mark.walters@duke.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Along similar lines, we have a couple of exhaust gas abatement scrubbers that we are replacing. We have no use for the old scrubbers and was wondering the best
way to get rid of them or dispose of them. They have primarily seen chlorine based gasses in usage.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Mark D. Walters, Ph.D.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Phone: (919) 660-5486<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dennis Schweiger<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 9, 2022 3:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bruce Tolleson <<a href="mailto:betemc@rit.edu" target="_blank">betemc@rit.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu" target="_blank">labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [labnetwork] Decontamination services<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 1:44 PM Bruce Tolleson <<a href="mailto:betemc@rit.edu" target="_blank">betemc@rit.edu</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Labnetwork,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Does anyone know who can decontaminate two Varian End stations, beam lines and sources that have had Arsenic and Phosphine through them?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We also have a MBE machine with 3/5 materials to decontaminate.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Thank you,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Bruce E. Tolleson</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Rochester Institute of Technology</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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