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CHEMICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AT THE MARANHO STATE UNIVERSITY SOILS` LABORATORY
Alessandro Costa da Silva Mariano Oscar Anbal Ibaez Rojas
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1.MARANHO STATE UIVERSITY. 2.FEDERAL TECNOLOGICAL EDUCATION CENTER OF MARANHO. KEY-WORDS: chemical, waste, laboratory

Introduction
The UEMA`s Soils Laboratory conducts physical, chemical and biological characterization of soil samples by means of the methodology described by the IAC (Agronomical Institute of Campinas). During analyses, mainly at the digestion, extraction and pre-concentration steps, chemical wastes are produced. These include, basically, organic solvents, soil wastes, among other impurities. Once most chemical products used in these laboratories yield, in general, hazardous wastes, they can not be freely put away through the drain. From 2004 on, it was proposed the implementation of a waste Managing Program for all UEMA`s Soil Analysis Laboratories, supported by FAPEMA (DCR scholarship). The aim of this work is to present some of the first managing trials concerning wastes collection and storing procedures at the UEMA`s Soil Analysis Laboratories.

must contain textually the necessary information as to allow the packaged product to be treated as safely as possible. Data on a given label can be exemplified as: i) the product name; ii) its concentration; iii) how to deal with it; iv) the antidotes and; v) the incompatibilities. During the storing must be considered: i) incompatibilities between the stored materials, mainly in the warehouses; ii) ventilation system; iii) the proper signaling and; iv) the Individual Protection Equipament (EPI) and Collective (EPC) availability, as well as the separation between the managerial, technical and storing areas (CUNHA,2001). At the laboratory individual waste flasks started to get accumulated (5L capacity); it was then necessary to mix up these wastes in high density polyethylene containers with capacity up to 50L. According to ARMOUR (1991), besides safety norms (such as proper location, adequate signaling, among others) waste collecting containers can not overpass 80% of its capacity, avoiding, by doing so, overfilling due to expansions of that mixture. Aiming at minimizing the wastes generation and accumulation problem, it was adopted at the Soils Laboratory the objective responsibility rule described by JARDIM (1998), which states the following: if you are the one who generated the waste, then you are responsible for it. To do so, it was created the Wastes Managing Pilot Program that forecasts in Lab lectures on environmental management, the importance of using individual protection equipments and information on handling and chemical wastes disposal.

Results and Discussion

Wastes generated at the laboratory during analyses are usually collected daily by the users in 5L flasks and stored for a shot time at the own laboratory. Definition of how many waste collection flasks remain available for each user will depend on the number of analyzed samples per working day. It is recommended to avoid the mixing of wastes. Nevertheless, when the mixing is necessary, it must be observed the chemical compatibility of the mixed substances, which must be listed in the own flask or in proper files. Mixing in the same flask must be performed by the own user who is responsible for the generation of that waste, once knowledge about the possible incompatibility among them is required. See in: http//phyichem.ox.ac.uk/msds/incompatibles.html. Each waste collection flask must be properly identified via symbols (for example, a drawing of a skull), so as to easily notice the recipients degree of hazardousness that, in its turn, can not be stored up in high locations nor be exposed close to working tables. Flask labels must identify the responsible, the data and the type of analysis that led to such a waste. These flasks can be used for collecting wastes from only one user or from various users performing the same work; i.e., the same analysis. According to GRIST (1995), labeling and marking of recipients containing chemical substances using symbols and warning texts, are essential safety measures. Labels and tags applied onto a package
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Conclusions
The main contribution of this work, besides reporting an environmental control experience able of being reproduced by other research groups, was to find correlations between the environmental chemistry taught in classroom and the real chemistry performed daily in the teaching on/and/or/in research laboratories.

Acknowledgments
FAPEMA by DCR scholarship for Mr. Rojas Mariano.
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