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This 5 page paper discusses hazardous waste: what it is, where it comes from, what its effects on the environment and how it can be mitigated. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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its impact on the environment and what we can do about it. It relies heavily on information provided by the Environmental Protection Agency. Discussion The EPA defines hazardous waste as
"... a waste with properties that make it dangerous or potentially harmful to human health or the environment" (Hazardous waste, 2006). Such waste can come in many forms, including solids,
liquids, "contained gases, or sludges" (Hazardous waste, 2006). They may be the "by-products of manufacturing processes" or they may simply be "discarded commercial products," such as cleaners, pesticides, herbicides or
other products that can be bought over the counter. The EPA has fairly stringent regulations of what constitutes a hazardous waste, or else virtually everything could be classified in such
a manner. To be a hazardous substance, the waste must appear on one of four hazardous wastes lists - "F-list, K-list, P-list or U-list"; or it has to exhibit at
least "one of four characteristics-ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity or toxicity" (Hazardous waste, 2006). Hazardous waste is "regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Subtitle C" (Hazardous waste, 2006). The
four lists are important to our understanding of how these wastes are handled, so lets take a further look at them. The F-list "identifies wastes from common manufacturing and industrial
processes, such as solvents that have been used in cleaning or degreasing operations" (Hazardous waste, 2006). The processes by which these wastes are produced can be found in many different
industries, so they are called "wastes from non-specific sources" (Hazardous waste, 2006) The list is enormous-it goes on and on; three of the items, chosen at random, are the "spent
halogenated solvent" tetrachloroethylene "used in degreasing"; the "spent non-halogenated solvents ... acetone [and] ethyl"; and "spent cyanide plating bath solutions from electroplating operations" (Title 40, protection of environment). (This and
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