Basic Hazardous Waste Management, Third Edition

Provides readers with a broad overview of the evolution and current practice of hazardous waste management, radiological waste management, underground storage tank management and biomedical/infectious waste management.

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This text provides readers with a broad overview of the evolution and current practice of hazardous waste management, radiological waste management, underground storage tank management and biomedical/infectious waste management. Fundamental issues are introduced, including hazardous waste site remediation technology and the application of federal statutes, regulations, programmes and policies to the clean-up of hazardous waste sites; pathways and fates and the environmental impacts of released hazardous materials; and the roles of science and technology in the standards-setting processes. The book reviews the application of administrative law, civil and criminal sanctions, the roles of the courts and the impacts of citizen suits in both historical and current regulatory contexts. It also relates the "cradle-to-grave" hazardous waste management system of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) to hazardous waste management practice.