Transcript HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT

HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
1. HAZARDOUS WASTE
DEFINITION
EPA Definition –
General Definition – substance which
may be hazardous to humans or the
environment.
2. FEDERAL REGULATIONS
a. Historical Aspects
Manufacturing / Wastes (< 1970’s)
1930’s – Love Canal
1960’s – fire on Cuyahoga R.
b. Environmental Laws Passed
1) Clean Air Act – 1970
2) Clean Water Act –1972
3) Safe Drinking Water Act – 1975
4) Toxic Substances Control Act – 1976
5) Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act (RCRA) - 1976
RCRA -1976
Shift from water and air, to land disposal
of hazardous wastes.
Deep Well Injection
Surface Impoundments
Landfills
Problems due to lack of management
6) RCRA Amendment (1980) – HWSA
“Comprehensive Waste Manag. System”
“Cradle to Grave” Manag. System”
a) Identify / classify waste
b) Identify responsibility generator’
c) Standards treatment & disposal
d) Standards for transportation
e) Provides for enforcement
7) Superfund – 1980 & 1986
Identify existing waste sites
Require containment and clean-up
of existing sites
“Community Right To Know”
As a laboratory responsible for wastes,
we need to minimize and safely handle
hazardous wastes.
3. MINIMIZE WASTE PRODUCTION
a. Comprehensive chemical management
b. Surplus chemical exchange
c. Recycling and reuse
d. Substitution
e. Microscale Experiments
f. Volume reduction of wastes
4. Handling / Storage of Wastes
a. Properly labeled containers
b. Store away from other chemicals
c. Segregation of wastes
d. Regularly scheduled waste disposal
pick-ups
5. General Laboratory Guidelines
What can be disposed of in lab?
What is a hazardous waste?
6. City of Salisbury Pretreatment Limits