Posted: July 2, 2014
Source: Environmental Leader.com
The EPA’s definition of waste treatment can be confusing and potentially costly, so it is important that hazardous waste generators be clear as to what activities might be considered as treatment of hazardous waste, according to Pollution Engineering.
Under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, treating a waste means changing the physical, chemical or biological characteristics of it. Examples of these types of change might be:
- Making a waste less corrosive or toxic
- Reducing a waste’s volume through evaporation
- Burning waste to obtain energy from it
- Leaving waste paint in the open to let volatile organic compounds in it vaporize
- Adding an acid or alkaline into a waste stream to reduce its corrosivity
- Doing something to waste to make it easier or less costly to transport or store
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