(a) 'Clean manufacturing', for purposes of IC 13-12 and IC 13-27, means the employment by a manufacturer of a practice that:(1) reduces the manufacturing use of toxic materials; or(2) reduces the environmental and health hazards associated with an environmental waste without diluting or concentrating the waste before the:(A) recycling;(B) release;(C) handling;(D) storage;(E) transport;(F) treatment; or(G) disposal;of the waste.(b) The term includes changes in production technology, materials, processes, operations, or procedures.(c) The term does not include the following:(1) A practice that is applied to an environmental waste after the waste:(A) is generated or comes into existence; or(B) exits a production unit or operation.(2) Waste burning in:(A) industrial furnaces;(B) boilers;(C) smelters; or(D) cement kilns;for purposes of energy recovery.(3) Waste shifting.(4) Offsite recycling.(5) Onsite recycling, including the following:(A) Inprocess recycling.(B) Inline recycling.(C) Out-of-process recycling.(D) Closed loop recycling.(E) Any other onsite recycling method.(6) Any other method of end-of-pipe management of environmental wastes, including the following:(A) ycling.(C) Out-of-process recycling.(D) Closed loop recycling.(E) Any other onsite recycling method.(6) Any other method of end-of-pipe management of environmental wastes, including the following:(A) Waste exchange.(B) The incorporation or embedding of regulated environmental wastes into products or byproducts.As added by P.L.124-1997, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.37-2012, SEC.2.
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