I am working with an industrial laundry operations who has a compliance issue with Bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate.  obviously this is in a number of the items they bring into their location, it is also in some of their soap holding containers.  what is the best and least expensive way to trear for Bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate. obviously pollution prevention would be a great way but that would eliminate over 90 % of their laundry.  Would removing the solids reduce the Bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate?

Also they have a problem with PAH's.  what is the best and least expensive treatment for PAH

thanks

mike

Dear 01231,

what is the 'industrial laundry operation' in detail? Washing clothes with aqueous detergent solutions?
The contamination with the phthalates is very strange for such an operation.
The phthalates are widely used as plasticizers in for plastics, especially for PVC. Though strange my suspicion is that they probably are from containers used for sampling of the effluent.
By the way PAH is a common abbreviation for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons.

Kind regards
T. Sobisch