“PHILADELPHIA (March 8, 2012) — Ellwood Quality Steels Company has agreed to pay a $150,000 penalty to settle alleged violations of hazardous waste regulations at its manufacturing facility in New Castle, Pa., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today.” Based on…
D002 Corrosive Hazardous Waste Determination
The characteristic of corrosivity is one step of the hazardous waste determination process that you must complete for every waste stream that you generate. Your waste is a corrosive hazardous waste, with waste code D002, if a representative sample has…
The Hazardous Waste Determination for Spent Organic Solvents as an F-Listed Hazardous Waste
The US EPA has identified two different categories of hazardous waste: characteristic and listed. Characteristic hazardous waste must exhibit specific characteristic as defined at 40 CFR 261, Subpart C. Usually lab analysis by a US EPA-approved test method plays an important part in…
Working Relationship Between OSHA & EPA
Some companies, some industries, some locations just seem to be of greater interest to one or more of the regulatory agencies: the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) of the US Department of Labor, the Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA),…
What is the US EPA Program WasteWise?
(Boston, Mass. – Dec. 14, 2011) – Three WasteWise partners in New England were recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for outstanding achievements as 2011 WasteWise award winners. Nationally, there were 29 winners, with awards in categories including…
USEPA Regulations for the Management of Medical Waste
USEPA Regulations for the Management of Medical Waste: It was the summer between my freshman and sophomore years of college at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point when news broke in July of 1988 about needles and other medical…