Sec. 27.6. (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) 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.