The Current Status of Hazardous Solid Waste Management
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The current status of hazardous solid waste management.
Growth of the population and of industrialization, and substandard disposal of the increased waste products thus generated, have resulted in numerous documented cases of harm to human, plant, and animal health. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (1976), its stated goals, and its intended means of implementation, are discussed relative to hazardous waste problems. Subtitle C of this Act,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0091-6765
DOI: 10.2307/3428880