Disposal

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-008199",
  "term": "Disposal",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste or hazardous waste into the environment (land, surface water, ground water, and air).\n\n2. Disposal is the final placement or destruction of toxic, radioactive or other wastes; surplus or banned pesticides or other chemicals; polluted soils; and drums containing hazardous materials from removal actions or accidental release. Disposal may be accomplished through the use of approved secure landfills, surface impoundments, land farming, deep well injection, or ocean dumping.\n\n3. Final placement or destruction of toxic, radioactive, or other wastes; surplus or banned pesticides or other chemicals; polluted soils; and drums containing hazardous materials from removal actions or accidental releases. Disposal may be accomplished through use of approved secure landfills, surface impoundments, land farming, deep-well injection, ocean dumping, or incineration.\n\n4. The actions taken regarding temporary records after their retention periods expire and consisting usually of destruction or occasionally of donation. See also DESTRUCTION, DISPOSING OF, DISPOSITION (1), DONATION (1), FINAL DISPOSITION, TEMPORARY RECORDS.\n\n5. Also, when so specified, the actions taken regarding nonrecord materials when no longer needed, especially their destruction. See also DISPOSITION (2).\n\n6. Final placement or destruction of wastes.\n\n7. The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid or hazardous waste on or in the land or water.\n\n8. Any underground injection, placement in landfills/surface impoundments, land treatment, or other intentional land disposal.\n\n9. The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any hazardous substance into or on any land or water so that such hazardous substance or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including groundwater. [40 CFR 373.4 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 257.2 (CFR 2013)]\n\n10. The process leading to and including:(1) The discharge, deposit, dumping or placing of any discarded appliance into or on any land or water;(2) The disassembly of any appliance for discharge, deposit, dumping or placing of its discarded component parts into or on any land or water; or (3) The disassembly of any appliance for reuse of its component parts.\n\n11. The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste or hazardous waste into or on any land or water so that such solid waste or hazardous waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including ground waters.\n\n12. Emplacement of radioactive material into the Yucca Mountain disposal system with the intent of isolating it for as long as reasonably possible and with no intent of recovery, whether or not the design of the disposal system permits the ready recovery of the material. Disposal of radioactive material in the Yucca Mountain disposal system begins when all of the ramps and other openings into the Yucca Mountain repository are sealed.\n\n13. Discard, throw away, or otherwise complete or terminate the useful life of chrysotile asbestos, including any chrysotile asbestos-containing products or articles.",
  "synonyms": [
    "RECORDS DISPOSAL"
  ],
  "subject": "Land, waste and cleanup",
  "references": [
    "Environmental Issues Terms & Acronyms",
    "Waste and Cleanup Risk Assessment Glossary",
    "RCRA Glossary of Terms; Terms of Environment",
    "Records Glossary",
    "I-BEAM Glossary of Terms",
    "RCRA Orientation Manual 2008 Glossary",
    "40 CFR 372.3 (CFR 2013); 40 CFR § 372.3",
    "40 CFR 270.2 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 82.152 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 260.10 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 197.12 (CFR 2019)",
    "40 CFR 751.503 (CFR 2024)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/disposal/"
}