hazardous waste Articles
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National Solid Waste Demonstration Project Based on Harden’s Shredding Technologies
Recently, a major national solid waste demonstration project has been successfully operated. This project is a solid waste processing center at Xiaogan, which was invested, constructed, and operated by CHINA ENFI, as well as the intelligent demonstration project for ENFI. The project covers an area of 78,800 square meters, with a design scale of 30,000 tons/year for the disposal of hazardous ...
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RCRA: Reducing Risk From Waste
This document provides an overview of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) solid and hazardous waste regulations. It describes the history of RCRA, the role of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the states, and hazardous waste definitions and management requirements, including the roles of generators, transporters, and treatment, storage, and disposal facilities. In ...
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Analysis of the generation of household solid wastes, household hazardous wastes and sustainable alternative handling
In the southern part of Mexico City, household solid wastes (HSWs) were examined qualitatively and quantitatively. The purpose of this work was to determine the dynamics of HSW and hazardous waste generation and create in households a responsible attitude towards environmental conservation. For this analysis, the population was categorised into three socioeconomic strata (lower, middle and ...
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An optimisation model for transportation of hazardous wastes
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has considerably increased the transport of materials along the US-Mexico borders. Maquiladoras are business entities that are structured to take relative advantages offered by both countries to develop cost-effective products. Current Mexican regulations require that hazardous wastes generated by US companies be shipped back for proper disposal. ...
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Planning a Centralized Hazardous Waste Treatment Facility -- An Operator's Perspective
INTRODUCTION The rapid industrial development of the Philippines and the implementation of the Toxic Substance and Hazardous and Nuclear Waste Control Act (1992) is causing an urgent need for hazardous waste treatment facilities. Estimates of hazardous waste volumes in metropolitan Manila are rising from 232,000 tons/year in 1995 to 659,000 tons/year in the year 2010. Mr. Walter Vergara of ...
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77 hazardous waste projects in the five-year plan... 13 hazardous waste projects have been adjusted!
On December 15, the Sichuan Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment held a special press conference on the construction of hazardous waste "three capabilities". It is understood that Sichuan Province has a wide range of sources, types and quantities of hazardous waste, and the amount of hazardous waste generated is increasing year by year. In 2019, the province’s generation was ...
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Improving the Cost-Effectiveness of Hazardous Waste Site Characterization and Monitoring
Executive Summary U.S. EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response is promoting more effective strategies for characterizing and monitoring hazardous waste sites. In particular, the wide-spread adoption of a new paradigm which uses an integrated triad of systematic planning, dynamic work plans, and on-site analysis for data collection and technical decision-making at hazardous waste sites ...
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Making the EPA Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements Rule Work For You
A brief summary of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed revisions to the hazardous waste generator regulations under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (40 CFR Parts 260 through 265, 268, 270, 273, and 279) The public comment period on the proposed revisions to the hazardous waste management program closed just before the end of 2015. The Environmental Protection Agency ...
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High technology comes to Hazardous waste disposal – Case Study
Skyrocketing hazardous waste disposal costs for the USC/ Division, of C.R. Bard, Inc., Billerica, Massachusetts led them to a high technology solution. USC/, a medical products manufacturer that develops and produces angioplasty catheters, had seen its solid hazardous waste disposal costs rise to almost $500 per 55- ga/lon drum, excluding costs associated with inplant storage, handling, and ...
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The Renovation Project of Changsha Hazardous Waste Disposal Center was Completed
In order to relieve the pressure of hazardous waste disposal in the whole Hunan Province, Changsha Hazardous waste Disposal Center has added a 100 tons/day hazardous waste incineration disposal line. With the original incineration line of 65 tons/day, the total disposal capacity is up to 165 tons/day, making it the largest hazardous waste disposal center in Hunan Province. In this way, the ...
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Hazardous wastes and economic risk reduction: case study, Poland
A concise summary balance of industrial and hazardous waste is given, reflecting the situation in Poland. Nearly 130 million tonnes of waste were generated annually in the past in more than 1300 larger industrial plants. Approximately 1800 million tonnes of industrial waste is already stockpiled. The amount of hazardous waste generated per year was 0.3 and 1.0 million tonnes of the first and ...
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Orientation to the application of economic instruments in industrial solid waste management – a case study in Ho Chi Minh City
Based on world experience of applying economic instruments ( EIs ) in solid waste management ( SWM ), by consensus and desk review methods, the research had identified corresponding weights of 09 criteria for selection of EIs in SWM and priority orders. Accordingly, a feasible EIs system was proposed in Ho Chi Minh City ( HCMC ): 1) revenue generating instruments: focusing on ...
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Medical and Hazardous Waste Management - case study
Waste stream regulatory and policy analysis Nationwide The Summary Our years of environmental regulatory knowledge and solid waste management expertise provide an understanding of state vs. federal requirement in the handling and disposal of medical and other hazardous waste. The Client A leading hazardous waste collection and disposal company The Rundown Compared individual ...
By AlterEcho
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Metro waste authority: Making an environmental impact
Formed in 1969, metro waste authority (MWA) (Des Moines, IA), formerly Des Moines Area Solid Waste Agency, was created as a result of federal legislation banning open burning in dumps and landfills. It is the largest publicly owned solid waste agency in Iowa. An independent government agency formed by the city of Des Moines and 22 surrounding suburbs and towns in central Iowa, MWA has 60 ...
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Christopher R. Bryant Meets with the First and Second Secretaries of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China
On January 25, 2018, Christopher R. Bryant, Senior Regulatory Consultant at Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®), met with Pan Jianwei and Lu Chao, First and Second Secretaries, respectively, of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China regarding U.S. regulation of solid and hazardous waste. China is currently revising its “Law on the Prevention and Control of ...
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Valorization of hazardous waste: how pyrolysis can help dispose of hazardous substances safely
What is hazardous waste? Hazardous waste refers to industrial or municipal waste that due to its toxicity and hazardousness must be treated using extremely safe methods. Of course they should not be disposed of in landfills. Such types of waste include those containing phosphides, isocyanates, alkali metals and acids, which form gases during combustion (e.g. chlorine forms hydrogen chloride, ...
By TECAM
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DE HSCA Environmental Standards
The Delaware Hazardous Substance Cleanup Act (HSCA): DE HSCA Environmental Standards & Regulations The Delaware Hazardous Substance Cleanup Act (DE HSCA Environmental Standards) environmental standards for risk assessment, clean-up, and remediation planning for polluted sites are determined by the DNREC Division of Waste and Hazardous Substances. These standards enable DNREC to oversee the ...
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Hazardous waste and not, Baioni-Dicatech system
The identification, characterization and restoration of contaminated areas now represent a big environmental issue, both at European and national level. In the major industrialized countries the issue of contaminated land has come out in all its gravity in the late seventies when, against a widespread awakening of environmental consciousness, important pollutions events emerged. Consequently, in ...
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Release behaviour of chromium from ferrochrome slag
Huge amount of ferrochrome slag, a solid waste is being generated from submerged electric arc furnace during manufacturing of ferrochrome alloy. The waste slag contains about 6–12% chromium as chromium oxide and it has the potentiality of releasing hazardous chromium compounds. Although chromium exists in the slag as highly immobile Cr (III) state, there is possibility of chromium release under ...
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Arizona Landfill Case Study (C3 Technology)
Between 1979 and 1980, industrial and hazardous wastes were disposed of at the Site in a series of unlined pits, each of which was used for a particular type of waste disposal. It is reported based on evaluations of manifests that approximately 3.4 million gallons of hazardous liquid wastes and between 3,700 and 4,100 tons of solid wastes were disposed of in the pits at the Site. Of particular ...
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