Destination Facility

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-007766",
  "term": "Destination Facility",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. The facility to which regulated medical waste is shipped for treatment and destruction, incineration, and/or disposal.\n\n2. Facility that treats, disposes of, or recycles a particular category of universal waste, except those management activities described in 40 CFR 273.13 (a) and (c) and 40 CFR 273.33 (a) and (c). A facility at which a particular category of universal waste is only accumulated, is not a destination facility for purposes of managing that category of universal waste. See 40 CFR 273.9 (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2012-title40-vol28/xml/CFR-2012-title40-vol28-sec273-9.xml).\n\n3. Facility that treats, disposes of, or recycles a particular category of universal waste, except those management activities described in paragraphs (a) and (c) of §§273.13 and 273.33 of this chapter. A facility at which a particular category of universal waste is only accumulated, is not a destination facility for purposes of managing that category of universal waste.",
  "subject": "Chemicals, toxics and pesticides",
  "references": [
    "Terms of Environment",
    "Universal Waste: Glossary of Regulatory Terms",
    "40 CFR 260.10 (CFR 2020)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/destination-facility/"
}