Hazardous waste

Arguably, CERCLA has not been as effective in preventing future hazardous waste disposal sites. CERCLA was enacted as a reactive measure to known and unknown hazardous waste disposal sites. As the EPA, federal and local governments move forward amendments need to be made to transform the EPA and CERCLA into a proactive agency and policy. This can be achieved by maintaining oversight on known hazardous waste sites, while regulating and preventing the occurrence of new hazardous waste sites. This approach can be facilitated in several different ways. First would be too reinstate the Superfund tax as a financial preventative measure to specific “risky” industries. When CERCLA was enacted, remedial costs were collected through taxation of chemical…

The growth of maquiladoras has led to increased air, water, and soil, pollution due to the inadequate disposal of hazardous wastes throughout the northern border area. Maquiladoras generate many hazardous waste such as acids, nickel, lead, paints, oils, and plastics, which are not regularly accounted for, despite the existence of the La Paz Agreement which requires U.S companies to deal with the toxic wastes associated with production (Frey 329). Statistics show that in the 1990s only 25 percent…

prime focus of hazardous waste management is to ensure safe, effective and economic way of collection, to transport, treating the waste and disposing off the hazardous waste. The industrial sector has rapidly grown in India which has contributed to the economic growth of the country as well as added to the pollution. The prime focus of this report…

Question #3 Two acts passed by congress, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) were made to control the creation, distribution, and disposal of hazardous waste from cradle to grave. They hold people who have mishandled toxic substances accountable for the damage they have done there is a spill or leakage, both past and present. RCRA seeks to prevent spills before they happen by imposing strict…

Question#1 The major differences between a Conditionally Exempt Small-Quantity Generator (CESQG) and a Small-Quantity Generator (SQG) mostly deals with the amount of hazardous waste that is generated. “SQGs are required to notify the EPA of their activities, CESQGs are not required to notify the EPA of their activities and do not have to obtain an EPA ID number” (Haight, 2012, p. 11). “When it comes to accumulating waste on site if the facility is classified as a CESQG, they have no…

with community involvement, for example, the annual report of the outage, which will drain the gas out of the tower burned down the community with space for at least one month in advance, and the voice on the line from the refinery to the community directly during maintenance. 3. Waste Material The Company 's principle is to classify waste as hazardous waste and non-hazardous waste that is the waste that occurs on a regular basis (Routine waste) or non-regular (Non - routine) will be man-aged…

The career that I am interested in is hazardous material removal worker. They are the first people to respond to a disaster that involves any hazardous materials that could negatively impact the environment or the inhabitants in a given area. A hazmat removal worker’s job is to identify, contain, and dispose of any material that can cause harmful effects to humans, animals, and the environment. The materials that are usually disposed of are toxic, flammable, radioactive, corrosive, and materials…

public have concerned about hazardous waste land in terms of their health and environmental risks associated with. As a result, The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tried to identify most waste sited all over the nation and test their magnitude of contaminations by Hazardous Ranking System (HRS). The EPA placed most substantial dangerous sites on its National Priorities List (NPL) and started remedial cleanups at these sites. Over the 30 years after the first cleanup process, the benefits…

Raymark Industries in Stratford, Connecticut was once a thriving business employing many people before leaving them with a huge clean up problem that has been going on for decades. The dumping of harmful waste has put the residents in bad living conditions, loss of economy from contaminated land, and unsafe water conditions. Finding a solution to the toxic asbestos Raymark used in brake pads would help lower the waste created at the facility. Learning to dispose of personally generated waste is…

United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified these sites as candidates for cleanup because they poses a risk to human health or the environment. Once a site is selected as a candidate, they are placed on a list called the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is used to prioritize the release or threatened releases of hazardous wastes in the United States. The EPA uses the NPL to help determine if investigations are…