Redesign of Hazardous and Toxic Waste Temporary Storage at PT ABC

Regulating the disposal of cigarette butts as toxic hazardous waste

The trillions of cigarette butts generated each year throughout the world pose a significant challenge for disposal regulations, primarily because there are millions of points of disposal, along with the necessity to segregate, collect and dispose of the butts in a safe manner, and cigarette butts are toxic, hazardous waste. There are some hazardous waste laws, such as those covering used tyres...

Toxic waste storage sites in EU countries

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Hazardous Waste Recycling: No Justification for Toxic Trade

Very quickly following the first international toxic waste trade scandals that took place in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the environmentally friendly word “ recycling” began to increasingly be used by waste traders to justify the export of hazardous wastes from rich to poorer countries. Today, this rationalization for toxic waste trade for industrial wastes continues. Virtually all existing...

Potentially hazardous waste produced at home

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to identify the sources of waste generation household consisting of biological material and to investigate the knowledge presented by those responsible for the generation of waste in the home environment on the potential health risk human and environmental. METHOD It is a quantitative survey performed in Parque Capuava, Santo André (SP). The questionna...

Allocating cleanup costs at hazardous waste sites.