EPA Announces New Regulations for Amalgam Recovery Affecting Dental Practices

HealthFirst and Rebec Environmental Offer a Complete Amalgam Recovery Program for Dental Practices
Posted: January 4, 2017
Edited by Dentaltown staff
 
SEATTLE—The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced new regulations that require dental offices to reduce their discharge of dental amalgam into public wastewaters.  This requires all offices covered by this initiative to install and maintain amalgam separators and to use best management practices for amalgam waste management and recovery.  

In response, HealthFirst’s Amalgam Recovery Program, endorsed by ADA Business Resources, will provide dental practices with a comprehensive and cost-effective amalgam recovery solution. This solution meets the ADA’s recommended best practices for the responsible handling of amalgam waste and exceeds the requirements set forth by the EPA for preventing dental mercury from entering the water supply. The solution was tested to have a 99.6 percent removal efficiency per ISO 11143:2008.  

In addition, ADA members will have the exclusive benefit of significant savings, a lifetime warranty on Rebec Environmental amalgam separators and an indemnification for waste water pollution fines.

“The solution provided by HealthFirst stands above the rest. The Rebec amalgam separators provides an excellent level of effectiveness, efficiency and durability, and the Amalgam Waste Recovery containers provide our customers with a cost-effective way to safely dispose of their amalgam waste per the EPA initiative and ADA Best Management Practices. The HealthFirst Amalgam Recovery Program provides tremendous value and protection to our members. And, as with all of our endorsed services, ADA Business Resources staff is available should members have any questions or concerns.” said Deborah Doherty, managing vice president of ADA Business Resources.
 
“We are thrilled that the American Dental Association has endorsed HealthFirst’s Amalgam Recovery Program to help ADA Members implement best practices for responsible handling of amalgam waste,” said Earl Greene, general manager at HealthFirst. “The rigorous due diligence process ADA Business Resources undertook substantiates our belief that we have the best-in-class solution.”
 
“The EPA initiative incurs a high impact on our dental office customers,” said Dr. Don Cohen, chief compliance officer for HealthFirst. “Our program provides ADA Members with a high-quality solution that exceeds all EPA, state and local requirements which leverages technology to help mitigate compliance risk, while also being cost effective and worry-free.”
 
For more information, call 888-963-6787 or visit healthfirst.com/ada/.
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