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Permitting, Estimations of Pollutions, Testing, Monitoring, Recordkeeping, and Reporting
Published in Rengasamy Kasinathan, Environmental Compliance Guide for Facility Managers and Engineers, 2023
Waste – specifically hazardous waste – is highly regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The USEPA established a permitting program under this act to ensure all hazardous wastes are being safely managed. This program established regulations for all aspects of hazardous waste management, including treatment, storage, and disposal (TSD). The USEPA calls this comprehensive regulation process “cradle-to-grave” management. Monitoring hazardous waste management closely through all aspects of its life cycle helps to avoid disasters such as spills and releases that could damage the environment and cause the need for Superfund (CERCLA) cleanups. Hazardous waste permitting is implemented either by the USEPA's regional offices or by certain states authorized by the EPA.
General Concept of Waste Management
Published in Saleh S. Al Arni, Mahmoud M. Elwaheidi, Concise Handbook of Waste Treatment Technologies, 2020
Saleh S. Al Arni, Mahmoud M. Elwaheidi
In this book, the term waste refers to an unusable or unwanted material that is sorted from human activity and intended to be disposed of anyway. In literature, different words such as “toxic, poisonous, chemical, and special” were used to refer to waste. We use the term hazardous waste, which means any waste or materials that pose a threat to human health and/or the environment; typically, this covers all types of hazardous materials including radioactive waste. The hazardous waste must be treated and disposed of separately from nonhazardous waste.
Force-System Resultants and Equilibrium
Published in Richard C. Dorf, The Engineering Handbook, 2018
Over 200 million tons of solid hazardous waste are generated annually in the U.S. Huge quantities of hazardous waste deposited in landfills, ponds, fields, and other locations require removal or in situ treatment. Common hazardous wastes include solvents, acids, bases, heavy metals, pesticides, plating, and heat-treating wastes. Six major effects of improper hazardous waste management are groundwater contamination, contamination of surface runoff, air pollution, fire and explosion, and adverse health effects via direct contact or via the food chain.
Numerical simulation of pressure profile of mining backfill fly-ash slurry in an L-shaped pipe using a validated Herschel-Bulkley model
Published in Journal of Sustainable Cement-Based Materials, 2023
Defeng Wang, George Barakos, Zhanbo Cheng, Helmut Mischo, Jinhai Zhao
Sustainable development with respect to environmental protection has been one of the most challenging battles in recent years, as almost all fundamental industrial sectors producing goods our daily lives rely on, generate vast amounts of hazardous waste. In the mining industry, that has got the reputation of being one of the most polluting industrial sectors, particularly fly ash and bottom ash generated from thermal power plants [1,2], coal gangue coming from coal mining [3], and waste rock and tailings coming from conventional mining operations pose an exigent threat. Additionally, growing amounts of municipal solid waste fostered by the process of rapid urbanization [4] as well as different types of industrial solid waste are also posing potential or visible hazards to the environment and raise strong political and social concerns.
Management of waste lubricant oil in Europe: A circular economy approach
Published in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 2021
Carolina T. Pinheiro, Margarida J. Quina, Licínio M. Gando-Ferreira
Nowadays, the sustainability principles are considered a driving force for the industry, and thus saving energy, resources and cutting emissions have become central issues. Also, lubricants production and its recovery are increasingly drawing public attention, since good practices may contribute to the sparing use of resources and sustainable development. With ever-growing global environmental awareness, many countries have developed regulations for guiding the management of hazardous waste. In the European Union (EU), demanding regulations led to the employment of the best available techniques (BAT) regarding waste oil management and to increasing collection and recycling rates over the years in several countries (GEIR, 2016). However, some Member States still need to improve the performance of the integrated waste oil management systems to reach the goals of the EU directives (Pinheiro, Ascensão, Cardoso, et al., 2017). Other countries around the world have also been trying to implement reliable management practices. As an example, El-Fadel and Khoury (2001) reported the situation in Lebanon, and Jhanani and Joseph (2011) in Indian automotive industries.
Designing a multi-objective model for a hazardous waste routing problem considering flexibility of routes and social effects
Published in Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering, 2020
Elham Araee, Neda Manavizadeh, Soroush Aghamohammadi Bosjin
In recent years because of lifestyle changes, the amount of waste, specifically hazardous waste has increased, so the waste management has become a critical issue for governments. Hazardous waste is a significant threat to human health and the environment. The hazardous waste is a waste with features that makes it dangerous or capable of having a disadvantageous effect on human health or the environment. Hazardous waste usually has one of the characteristics of explosion, combustion, corrosion, reactivity and toxicity, often classified as radioactive waste, chemical residues, flammable waste, biological waste, and explosives. Some of the major sources of hazardous waste are hospitals, laboratories, and industrial centers such as factories and sanatoriums. Nowadays, one of the major problems of waste collection, optimal transfer, and disposal is that if the correct methods are not taken into account, it can create many risks for humans, their living environment, and health. Constantly, we need to transport hazardous waste to destruction or refining centers. Since the continued transfer of these wastes is costly and time-consuming, it is imperative that we seek to develop an optimal structure for the transfer of hazardous waste. The use of optimal transportation planning, is one of the scientific approaches to reducing transportation costs, in other words, optimal transfer. The technology of hazardous waste transportation is very different from ordinary waste and should be considered separately.