What Are The Procedures for recycling and the disposal of hazardous waste?
This is actually a fairly complicated question to answer…and I hope I remember all the information correctly, because it’s been a lot of years since I’ve needed to recall that information… First off, if a waste material is recycled, it is NOT considered a “waste”, especially since the company is probably being paid for their waste material that is going to be recycled. The term waste implies that the material’s useful life is over, and the only thing that can therefore be done with it is treatment or disposal. Now, if you’ve got a waste material, that cannot be recycled, and potentially could harm the environment, animals, or people, then that material is considered a hazardous waste…and hazardous wastes are typically defined by one of three categories: Toxicity, Characteristic, and Listed. All hazardous waste is the “property” of the generator – even after it is disposed of in a hazardous waste landfill. That “ownership” is described as “cradle to grave”. They generated the wast
