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Legal Principle For Handling Waste In Washington
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Waste Management Policy refers to a set of guidelines and regulations that govern the proper handling and disposal of waste. It includes sector-specific norms, recycling requirements, environmental liability, and measures to promote awareness and monitoring.
EPA regulates household, industrial, and manufacturing solid and hazardous wastes under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).
Hazardous waste is addressed in specific OSHA standards for general industry and construction.
Most municipal solid wastes and hazardous wastes are managed in land disposal units. For hazardous and industrial wastes, land disposal includes landfills, surface impoundments, land treatment, land farming, and underground injection.
Waste avoidance, re-use, recycling, recovery, removal – waste management works along these principles.
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act is our nation's primary law governing the disposal of solid and hazardous waste. RCRA was signed into law on October 21, 1976 to address the increasing problems the nation faced from our growing volume of municipal and industrial waste.
(1976) The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) gives EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from cradle to grave. This includes the generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste. RCRA also set forth a framework for the management of non-hazardous solid wastes.
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), enacted in 1976, is the principal Federal law in the U.S. governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste.
Summary of Knowledge and Skills Proper waste disposal and management can be done by applying the 3R – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Reducing means lessening the amount of trash/garbage produced. Reusing refers to using materials more than once while recycling means creating new material or product out of trash/garbage.
Federal hazardous waste regulations adopted by U.S. EPA are found in Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, (40 CFR), Parts 260- 279. The federal regulations were implemented under the authority of Chapter 42, United States Code, (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, also known as RCRA).