Because aerosol cans contain pressurized propellants and hazardous chemicals, proper aerosol disposal and recycling is vital for businesses to maintain legal compliance, ensure worker safety, and reduce waste management costs.
If your business is experiencing recurring safety issues, struggling to meet EPA and OSHA compliance standards, or facing high hazardous waste disposal fees, it may be time to upgrade to a better aerosol can disposal and recycling system.
Sign #1: Worker Safety is Compromised
If employees are puncturing cans with screwdrivers or letting them passively bleed out, you could be exposing your team to flammable propellant gases, toxic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and explosion risks.
The Solution: The Can-Emitor is the only aerosol can disposal system on the market that is completely sealed and able to safely puncture and empty commercial aerosols and spray cans of any size, in a matter of seconds, without the need for an external power source. It also includes a two-stage coalescing carbon filter to effectively capture odors and harmful volatile organic compounds released by punctured aerosol cans.
Sign #2: You’re Struggling to Meet EPA & OSHA Regulations
Failing to meet EPA and OSHA regulations for aerosol can disposal can result in severe legal and financial consequences. Violators face federal fines of more than $76,000 per violation, per day for EPA infractions, and more than $165,000 for repeated or willful OSHA violations.
The Solution: To achieve compliance, businesses must follow the EPA Universal Waste rules, which require aerosol cans to be labeled, stored in closed and structurally sound containers, and handled by licensed waste haulers. Alternatively, companies can use an EPA and OSHA approved aerosol can puncturing device, like the Can-Emitor, provided they follow manufacturer specifications and properly capture and process the hazardous contents.
Sign #3: You’re Paying High Hazardous Waste Hauling Fees
If you are following the EPS Universal Waste rules, and disposing of unpunctured, partially full aerosol cans as hazardous waste, it can become incredibly expensive because you are paying to transport the weight of the steel or aluminum, as well as the liquid contents.
The Solution: Switch to an in-house aerosol can recycling system, like the Can-Emitor, which punctures and empties any residual contents into a drum and allows the drained metal to be recycled as scrap. Rather than paying a licensed hazardous waste handler to haul away your aerosol cans, you only have to haul away the liquid contents, and the cans be recycled at no cost to you.
Upgrade Your Aerosol Disposal System with the Can-Emitor
Keep your workers safe, reduce your waste management costs, and remain fully compliant with OSHA and EPA standards with the only completely-sealed aerosol can disposal and recycling system on the market. The Can-Emitor is available as a single item or as part of a kit with everything you need to recycle and dispose of aerosol cans.
Watch our video to see how the Can-Emitor works, browse our FAQs, and order online for prompt delivery throughout the U.S.
