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Hazardous waste is waste that must be handled properly to avoid damaging human health or the environment. Waste can be hazardous because it is toxic, reacts violently with other chemicals, or is corrosive, among other traits.[1] As of 2022, humanity produces 300-500 metric tons of hazardous waste annually.[2] Some common examples are electronics, batteries, and paints. An important aspect of managing hazardous waste is safe disposal. Hazardous waste can be stored in hazardous waste landfills, burned, or recycled into something new. Managing hazardous waste is important to achieve worldwide sustainability.[3] Hazardous waste is regulated on national scale by national governments as well as on an international scale by the United Nations (UN) and international treaties.
^Martínez, Johann H.; Romero, Sergi; Ramasco, José J.; Estrada, Ernesto (2022-03-29). "The world-wide waste web". Nature Communications. 13 (1): 1615. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28810-x. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 8964736. PMID 35351874.
^Our World in Data team (July 18, 2023). "Sustainable Development Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns". Our World in Data. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
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include municipal solid waste (household trash/refuse), hazardouswaste, wastewater (such as sewage, which contains bodily wastes (feces and urine) and...
waste may be solid, semi-solid or liquid in form. It may be hazardouswaste (some types of which are toxic) or non-hazardouswaste. Industrial waste may...
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these charge a fee for depositing hazardous material. Lack of access to nearby facilities that accept hazardouswaste may deter use. Additionally, ignorance...
skin. The waste can contain chemicals, heavy metals, radiation, dangerous pathogens, or other toxins. Even households generate hazardouswaste from items...
designed to reduce the movements of hazardouswaste between nations, and specifically to prevent transfer of hazardouswaste from developed to less developed...
known as hazardous materials (syllabically abbreviated as HAZMAT or hazmat). An example for dangerous goods is hazardouswaste which is waste that has...
guidelines for hazardouswaste disposal. Municipal waste collectors often are exposed to amounts of hazardouswaste because a degree of hazardouswaste is permissible...
Household hazardouswaste (HHW) was a term coined by Dave Galvin from Seattle, Washington in 1982 as part of the fulfillment of a US EPA grant. This new...
Wastes Directive. However, the list (and EWC) gives a broad definition (EWC Code 16 02 13*) of what is hazardous electronic waste, requiring "waste operators"...
of wastes that they produce is comparably large, consisting of sewage; wastewater from sinks, showers, and galleys (graywater); hazardouswastes; solid...
trash or general waste, and differs from other types of hazardouswaste, such as chemical, radioactive, universal or industrial waste. Medical facilities...
federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardouswaste. Congress enacted RCRA to address the increasing problems the...
waste electronic and electrical equipment was disposed of in the household (municipal) waste stream. Post the introduction of the HazardousWaste Regulations...
global waste trade is the international trade of waste between countries for further treatment, disposal, or recycling. Toxic or hazardouswastes are often...
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Waste management laws govern the transport, treatment, storage, and disposal of all manner of waste, including municipal solid waste, hazardouswaste...
burn pits. The plant generated large quantities of potentially hazardouswastes and hazardous substances, including solvents, oils, greases, explosives, radionuclides...
effectively ended what provision of security and maintenance for the hazardouswaste had existed before and placed all responsibility in clearly unqualified...
treatment of certain waste types in niche areas such as clinical wastes and certain hazardouswastes where pathogens and toxins can be destroyed by high temperatures...
for non-hazardouswaste meet predefined specifications by applying techniques to: confine waste to as small an area as possible compact waste to reduce...
Under United States environmental policy, hazardouswaste is a waste (usually a solid waste) that has the potential to: cause, or significantly contribute...
as a form of waste treatment, and has been tested for the gasification of refuse-derived fuel, biomass, industrial waste, hazardouswaste, and solid hydrocarbons...
hazardouswaste may itself be a hazardouswaste, and if so, must be managed subject to hazardouswaste management standards. Both used oil and waste oil...
and gaseous waste. It is recognized as a practical method of disposing of certain hazardouswaste materials (such as biological medical waste). Incineration...
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