Open AccessThe current status of hazardous solid waste management.
Author(s) -
Hugh B. Kaufman
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.7827211
Subject(s) - hazardous waste , resource conservation and recovery act , business , harm , waste management , agency (philosophy) , population , municipal solid waste , environmental planning , waste disposal , environmental protection , engineering , environmental science , environmental health , medicine , law , philosophy , epistemology , political science
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, and the authority granted by it to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, are explained. Standards and regulations have been imposed upon those responsible for generating and transporting hazardous wastes, to ensure the ultimate safe disposal of such wastes in environmentally suitable, properly licensed facilities.