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Even if you use them properly, many chemicals can still harm human health and the environment. When you throw these substances away, they become hazardous waste. Some hazardous wastes come from products in our homes. Our garbage can include such hazardous wastes as old batteries, bug spray cans and paint thinner. U.S. residents generate 1.6 million tons of household hazardous waste per year. Hazardous waste is also a by-product of manufacturing.
You may have hazardous wastes in your basement or garage. How do you get rid of them? Don't pour them down the drain, flush them or put them in the garbage. See if you can donate or recycle. Many communities have household hazardous waste collection programs. Check to see if there is one in your area.
Environmental Protection Agency
'''Hazardous waste''' is waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment and generally exhibits one or more of these characteristics: *ignitability *corrosion *reactivity (explosive) *toxicity Many types of businesses generate hazardous waste. Some are small companies that may be located in a community. For example, the following types of businesses typically generate hazardous waste: dry cleaning, automobile repair shops, hospitals, pest (animal), and photo processing centers. Some hazardous waste generators are larger companies like chemical manufacturers, electroplating companies, and oil refinery. See also: radioactive waste, toxic waste, remediation.
Environmental Health Technology - University of Washington program on the health and environmental issues associated with air pollution, drinking water, wastewaters, food protection, and solid and hazardous wastes.
Electro-Optics, Environment and Materials Laboratory - A unit of Georgia Tech Research Institute, the applied research arm of Georgia Institute of Technology. Descriptions of basic and applied research programs in areas such as advanced materials, indoor air quality, hazardous wastes, and wastewater disposal.
Construction Quality Assurance Services, Inc - USA. Specialized quality assurance services for municipal, residual, construction, demolition and hazardous waste management facilities. Complete schedule of geosynthetics materials and products tests.
G.N. Richardson & Associates - USA. Specialty engineering and geological consulting company, focused on solid and hazardous waste management. List of landfill and lagoon projects. Links to newsletters and related sites.
DT Labs - Bio-Protective Products manufactures a infectious and hazardous waste wipe and containment bag all-in-one.
Hazardous Disposal Specialists, Inc. - Provides comprehensive waste management services, specializing in the transportation and disposal of hazardous wastes.
The Columbia Journal of Project Siting and Management - The siting of a range of projects from hazardous nuclear waste facilities to benign (or, perhaps, not so benign) bicycle paths represents one on the most significant contemporary policy challenges confronting all nations. The Columbia Journal of Project Siting and Management is a new, fully-refereed interdisciplinary journal dedicated to examining siting processes and their implications for policy. The journal will provide an essential global forum for multiple communities of readers and contributors in environmental science and policy, including the research, policy, environmental, and business communities at local, national, and international levels.
Anatek Labs, Inc - Environmental laboratory testing for drinking water, wastewater, soil, petroleum, pesticides, metals, hazardous waste, asbestos and bacterial contamination. Facilities in Spokane, Washington and Moscow, Idaho.
Zalco Laboratories Inc - Specializing in the analyses of petroleum and gas, organics, inorganics, fish bioassay, hazardous waste and drinking water. EPA certified full service analytical testing laboratory in Bakersfield, CA.
Western Analytical Laboratories, Inc. - Details of tests on metal finishing plating baths, soil, hazardous waste, wastewater and drinking water, including coliform bacteria at labs in Chino, CA.