How NOT to Handle Wastewater Discharge

Here’s further evidence that monitoring your company's waste output is something you should probably keep an eye on… Yesterday the former environmental, health & safety manager for AMCAN Beverages, Inc. (A subsidiary of Coca-Cola) pled guilty to falsifying reports about their plant's wastewater discharge. He now faces up to 3 years in prison and/or upwards of $250,000 in fines for directing employees to dilute wastewater samples before they were sent for off-site testing and then reporting on the tampered results. The company was caught when the City of American Canyon’s own wastewater treatment plant staterd experiencing operational problems relating to Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) and Total Suspended Solids (TSS) measurements and began a covert investigation into industrial discharges in the area, leading them to AMCAN. If only Captain Planet was still around to call on, he'd take pollution down to zero... Read more details on the case here. And yes, we do offer plenty of different products for TSS measurements as well as bench scale systems for municipal/industrial waste and wastewater purification.