RCRA Articles
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Redefining Solid Waste -- Again
On March 26, 2007, EPA announced the issuance of a sweeping proposal to modify the RCRA definition of solid waste. The proposal seeks to streamline regulation of hazardous secondary materials, and revise the definition of solid waste to exclude certain secondary materials from RCRA regulation to promote the legitimate recycling of these materials. Proposal elements The proposal would exclude ...
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Green products get green light
Untitled Document Green procedurement is not new. Congress recognized its potential when it enacted the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) in 1976. RCRA directs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to identify products made with recycled waste materials or solid waste byproducts and develop guidelines for purchasing them. These are the four federal ...
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Legal Lookout: Redefining solid waste
Some hazardous secondary materials excluded from EPA's revised definition under RCRA. The definition of solid waste has long been the subject of controversy. At the heart of the debate is what constitutes 'discard,' versus legitimate recycle or reuse such that RCRA regulation should not apply. This question has been especially vexing for secondary materials, including spent materials, listed ...
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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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Encouraging Americans to Reuse, Recycle, and Conserve Natural Resources
When Congress passed the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) in 1976, it charged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with ensuring the safe disposal and management of municipal and industrial waste, and it broadly championed a new ethic of resource conservation. During the first two decades of RCRA, EPA, in partnership with the states, focused primarily on establishing a ...
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New EPA Draft Guidance on Vapor Intrusion
One of the primary objectives of the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) under EPA’s Strategic Plan is stated as: “By 2005, EPA and its state, tribal and local partners will reduce or control the risk to human health and the environment at more than 374,000 contaminated Superfund, RCRA, underground storage tank (UST), brownfields and oil sites, and have the planning and ...
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Determination of the Environmental TCLP Metals in Waste-Waters, Solid Wastes, and Soils by Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry
Hazardous wastes can originate from many sources – industrial processes, product formulations, synthetic operations, virtually any manufacturing business. The nature and composition of the “wastes” can vary so much that one industry’s discharge can serve as another’s raw materials. It is the tremendous transfer of these materials – their storage, transportation, spillage and leakage into ...
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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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When is material ‘spent?
The definition of solid waste has been frequently tested in the courts. A recent court decision provides new guidance on this meaning, and might have made things tougher for well-meaning enterprises. The definition of a hazardous waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) is nearly impossible to understand. A recent court ruling has not helped eliminate confusion and, some ...
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EPA Issues Proposed Revisions to Definition of Solid Waste
The definition of “solid waste” under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) is unquestionably one of the most difficult environmental concepts to get one's head around. Even after 27 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is still tinkering with revisions to the definition to better define the types of recycling activities that fall within the scope of the ...
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Financial assurance and long-term stewardship
While financial reporting is a SEC requirement for all publicly traded companies, financial assurance is a requirement of regulatory authorities and applies to all responsible parties, whether publicly or privately held. Here the author tackles the question of the financial impact on companies if the scope of liabilities requiring financial assurance were increased and, as a result, they failed ...
By AHC Group
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Evaluation of Priority Pollutant VOCs in Waste-Water and Solid Waste by EPA Method-624 Gas Chromatography
Processing waste discharges, manufacturing effluents and sewage would not normally have been a problem 50 years ago, but the advent of almost unchecked industrial growth the latter half of the last century has created the POTENTIAL for a wide variety of characterized pollutants to enter the environment of any municipality. The toxic METALS are tested by approved State & Federal methods ...
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EPA Proposes Revisions to RCRA Definition of Solid Waste
On June 30, 2011, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson signed a proposed rule seeking to narrow certain recycling exemptions under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act's (RCRA) "Definition of Solid Waste" (DSW) provisions. The rule should be published in the Federal Register within the next two weeks. A pre-publication copy of the rule and related ...
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EPA`s Proposed Solid Waste Definition Fact Sheet, May 2007
EPA's re-proposal on solid waste definition is receiving comments until June 25, 2007. This fact sheet summarizes the elements of the new proposal. Basic Idea of Proposed Rule (as of March 26, 2007) If hazardous secondary materials discarded by one company and reclaimed by another company are deemed not “discarded”, then they should not be regulated as wastes. If not a waste, then cannot be a ...
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Shimadzu Guide to US EPA Method 8260 for analysis of volatile organic compounds in groundwater and solid waste
Environmental contamination has been at the forefront of government policy and regulation since the US EPA was established in 1970. Over the years the US EPA has developed, published, and updated multiple methods for analysis of environmental pollutants, and single-quadrupole gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS) has long been the technique of choice for determination of volatile organic ...
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The Future of Secondary Materials as Fuel
Many questions related to the regulatory status of facilities that use secondary materials as alternative fuels are anticipated to be answered in 2010. In simple terms, if a combustion source uses a secondary material that is characterized as solid waste as an alternative fuel, then that source could be subject to a Clean Air Act (CAA) Section 129 standard. If the same source used a secondary ...
By All4 Inc.
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Method 1311 & Other EPA Waste Test Methods
What is Method 1311? When it comes to determining if a waste is hazardous from a disposal standpoint, there is only one test method that matters. USEPA mandates the use of Method 1311, Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP) for determining if a waste is hazardous or non-hazardous for disposal purposes. When considering options for waste treatment, the first target is to produce a ...
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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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Resource Conservation Challenge: Update
Resource Conservation Challenge: An Overview Launched in 2002, the Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC) implements Congress’ charge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the Pollution Prevention Act to prevent pollution and conserve natural resources and energy by managing materials more efficiently. The RCC is a national ...
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Defining solid waste
Simultaneous to the publication of the final National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Boilers (the Boiler NESHAP) and the Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incinerator (CISWI) Rules, EPA issued a new regulation that for the first time defines what materials are a non-hazardous solid waste when combusted. This rule, Solid Wastes Used as Fuels or Ingredients in Combustion ...
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