Definitions for hazardous waste
haz·ardous waste

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1. Hazardous waste

   Hazardous waste is waste that has substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment. Hazardous waste is a type of dangerous goods. They usually have one or more of the following hazardous traits:ignitability, reactivity, corrosivity, toxicity. Listed hazardous wastes are materials specifically listed by regulatory authorities as hazardous wastes which are from non-specific sources, specific sources, or discarded chemical products. Hazardous wastes may be found in different physical states such as gaseous, liquids, or solids. A hazardous waste is a special type of waste because it cannot be disposed of by common means like other by-products of our everyday lives. Depending on the physical state of the waste, treatment and solidification processes might be required. The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal was signed by 199 countries and went into force in 1992. Plastic was added to the convention in 2019.

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1. Hazardous waste

   Hazardous waste is waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment. In the United States, the treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous waste is regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Hazardous wastes are defined under RCRA in 40 CFR 261 where they are divided into two major categories: characteristic wastes and listed wastes. ⁕Characteristic hazardous wastes are materials that are known or tested to exhibit one or more of the following four hazardous traits: ⁕ignitability ⁕reactivity ⁕corrosivity ⁕toxicity ⁕Listed hazardous wastes are materials specifically listed by regulatory authorities as a hazardous waste which are from non-specific sources, specific sources, or discarded chemical products. The requirements of RCRA apply to all the companies that generate hazardous waste as well as those companies that store or dispose of hazardous waste in the United States. Many types of businesses generate hazardous waste. For example, dry cleaners, automobile repair shops, hospitals, exterminators, and photo processing centers may all generate hazardous waste. Some hazardous waste generators are larger companies such as chemical manufacturers, electroplating companies, and oil refineries.

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1. Hazardous Waste

   Waste products which, upon release into the atmosphere, water or soil, cause health risks to humans or animals through skin contact, inhalation or ingestion. Hazardous waste sites which contain hazardous waste substances go here.

How to pronounce hazardous waste?

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How to say hazardous waste in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hazardous waste in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hazardous waste in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of hazardous waste in a Sentence

1. York University:

   Climate change could remobilize the abandoned hazardous waste believed to be buried forever beneath the Greenland ice sheet.

2. Dan Brewer:

   My first role was to go around bases and assess the problem. And it was huge, i mean, with burn pits. Hazardous waste, improper hazardous waste, I mean, the wastewater issues. We had asbestos issues, you name it.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazardous_Waste
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=hazardous waste