waste label Articles
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A new circular economy action plan for a cleaner and more competitive Europe: Parliament’s demands
In March 2020, the European Commission adopted the new circular economy action plan: the European Parliament demanded binding objectives for 2030 to make consumer goods more sustainable from design onwards. ...
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Developing and evaluating new policy instruments for sustainable waste management
The aim of this paper is to suggest a number of interesting policy instruments that can make the Swedish waste management system more sustainable. Approximately 60 suggestions for policy instruments were gathered through a number of workshops with stakeholders. These were further prioritised in a workshop with stakeholders and by the research team resulting in a list of 15 instruments: ...
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Post-Consumer Recycled Plastics
There are two types of recycled plastics: Post-Consumer recycled plastic and Post-Industrial recycled plastic. The process to recycle post-consumer waste is known as Post-consumer Recycled or Post-Consumer Recycling (PCR). Post-consumer waste(PCW) content refers to everything that can be seen in a recycling bin. The most common post-consumer waste is generated from product packaging and plastic ...
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Why is Medical Waste Management So Important?
The term “medical waste” refers to hazardous material generated from healthcare activities. It needs to be carefully managed to prevent it from posing a threat to public health and/or the environment. This means that any business, organisation, or individual involved with delivering healthcare needs to take medical waste management very seriously. To explain further, Sarah Vernau, ...
By Flame UK
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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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Environmentally sound - Case study
On March 16, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to add hazardous waste aerosol cans to the category of “universal wastes” regulated under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) regulations, codified at Title 40 of the C.F.R., Part 273. 83 Fed. Reg. 11654. According to EPA, this action would benefit the many manufacturing facilities and ...
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Managing Low-level Radioisotopes as Part of a Company´s Total Lifecycle of Chemicals and Radioactive Materials
Chiron Corporation is one of the world’s leading biopharmaceutical companies with businesses in biopharmaceuticals, vaccines and blood testing. In addition to manufacturing facilities, Chiron has an extensive research and development organization, which works with chemicals and radioactive materials. Under Federal, State and Local regulations, as well as corporate operating procedures, ...
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