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Coming Through a City Near You: The Transport of Hazardous Wastes

Author(s) -

Falcone Santa,

Orosco Kenneth

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

policy studies journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773

H-Index - 69

eISSN - 1541-0072

pISSN - 0190-292X

DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0072.1998.tb01945.x

Subject(s) - hazardous waste , household hazardous waste , business , government (linguistics) , agency (philosophy) , toxic waste , waste management , environmental planning , municipal solid waste , engineering , waste collection , environmental science , mobile incinerator , sociology , social science , linguistics , philosophy

Current figures (compiled in 1995) indicate that hazardous waste transporters (19,567 in number) ship approximately 16 million tons of hazardous waste annually in the United States (United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1995). While some state and local governments have enacted hazardous waste transport regulations for the protection of their citizens, the federal government has had primacy in initiating and setting the course of hazardous waste transport regulation. As a result, the predominant perspective on hazardous waste transport has been technical in orientation. This paper identifies and discusses how this technical perspective and the social perspective differ and what the consequences are for government policies and actions regarding hazardous waste transport.

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