Hazardous waste

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-012939",
  "term": "Hazardous waste",
  "field": "Environment",
  "term_source": "Hazardous Waste",
  "definitions": [
    "1. A subset of solid wastes that pose substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment and meet any of the following criteria: -is specifically listed as a hazardous waste by EPA; - exhibits one or more of the characteristics of hazardous wastes (ignitability, corrosiveness, reactivity, and/or toxicity); - is generated by the treatment of hazardous waste; or is contained in a hazardous waste.\n\n2. By-products of society that can pose a substantial or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly managed. Possesses at least one of four characteristics (ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity, or toxicity), or appears on special EPA lists.\n\n3. A subset of solid wastes that pose substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment and meet any of the following criteria: (1) is specifically listed as a hazardous waste by EPA; (2) exhibits one or more of the characteristics of hazardous wastes (ignitability, corrosiveness, reactivity, and/or toxicity); (3) is generated by the treatment of hazardous waste; or is contained in a hazardous waste.\n\n4. By-products or waste materials of manufacturing and other processes that have some dangerous property; generally categorized as corrosive, ignitable, toxic, or reactive, or in some way harmful to people or the environment.\n\n5. A waste with properties that make it dangerous, or capable of having a harmful effect on human health and the environment. Under the RCRA program, hazardous wastes are specifically defined as wastes that meet a particular listing of description or that exhibit a characteristic of hazardous waste. See RCRA Orientation Manual Appendix D Glossary. NOTE: Hazardous wastes also are defined in 40 CFR 261.3.\n\n6. Waste products that can pose a substantial or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly managed. Hazardous waste is regulated at the federal level under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). A waste may be hazardous if it has at least one of four characteristics: ignitable, corrosive, reactive, or toxicity.\n\n7. By-products of society that can pose a substantial or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly managed. They have at least one of four characteristics -- they are ignitable, corrosive, reactive, or toxic.\n\n8. A waste with properties that make it dangerous or capable of having a harmful effect on human health and the environment. Under the RCRA program, hazardous wastes are specifically defined as wastes that meet a particular listing description or that exhibit a characteristic of hazardous waste.\n\n9. Waste with properties that make it dangerous or potentially harmful to human health or the environment. The universe of hazardous wastes is large and diverse. Hazardous wastes can be liquids, solids, contained gases, or sludges. They can be the byproducts of manufacturing processes or simply discarded commercial products, like cleaning fluids or pesticides. Hazardous waste is regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Subtitle C (see RCRA hazardous waste for the regulatory definition). States can identify additional wastes as hazardous beyond those identified by EPA.\n\n10. A solid waste, as defined in § 261.2, is a hazardous waste if: (1) It is not excluded from regulation as a hazardous waste under § 261.4(b); and (2) It meets any of the following criteria: (i) It exhibits any of the characteristics of hazardous waste identified in subpart C of this part. However, any mixture of a waste from the extraction, beneficiation, and processing of ores and minerals excluded under § 261.4(b)(7) and any other solid waste exhibiting a characteristic of hazardous waste under subpart C is a hazardous waste only if it exhibits a characteristic that would not have been exhibited by the excluded waste alone if such mixture had not occurred, or if it continues to exhibit any of the characteristics exhibited by the non-excluded wastes prior to mixture. Further, for the purposes of applying the Toxicity Characteristic to such mixtures, the mixture is also a hazardous waste...\n\n11. Any waste or combination of wastes which pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or living organisms because such wastes are nondegradable or persistent in nature or because they can be biologically magnified, or because they can be lethal, or because they may otherwise cause or tend to cause detrimental cumulative effects.\n\n12. A waste or combination of wastes of a solid, liquid, contained gaseous, or semisolid form which may cause, or contribute to, an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness, taking into account the toxicity of such waste, its persistence and degradability in nature, its potential for accumulation or concentration in tissue, and other factors that may otherwise cause or contribute to adverse acute or chronic effects on the health of persons or other organisms.\n\n13. Meaning provided in 40 CFR 261.3.\n\n14. Hazardous waste as defined in § 261.3 of this chapter.\n\n15. Defined in § 261.3 of this chapter.\n\n16. Waste with properties that make it dangerous, or capable of having a harmful effect on human health and the environment. Under the RCRA program, hazardous wastes are specifically defined as wastes that meet a particular listing of description or that exhibit a characteristic of hazardous waste. See RCRA Orientation Manual Appendix D Glossary ( NOTE: Hazardous wastes also are defined in 40 CFR 261.3 (Adapted from\n\n17. Hazardous waste as defined in 40 CFR 261.3.\n\n18. Meaning given it in section 1004(5) of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 6903(5).\n\n19. A hazardous waste is one of the following: · A waste or combination of wastes as defined in 40 CFR 261.3, RCRA. · A waste or combination of wastes as defined in 40 CFR 261.3, RCRA. · A waste or combination of wastes as defined in 40 CFR 261.3, RCRA.\n\n20. A hazardous waste is one of the following: A waste or combination of wastes as defined in 40 CFR 261.3, RCRA; a substance defined as hazardous waste in 49 CFR 171.8, DOT.",
    "(TSDF and LQGs) Hazardous waste information contained in the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Information (RCRAInfo) includes an inventory on all generators, transporters, treaters, storers, and disposers of hazardous waste that are required to provide information about their activities.",
    "(Under Response) Waste with properties that make it dangerous or capable of having a harmful effect on human health or the environment.",
    "1. EPA interprets \"hazardous wastes\" to include all wastes that are hazardous within the statutory definition in RCRA Section 1004(5), not just those hazardous wastes that are listed or identified by EPA pursuant to RCRA Section 3001.\n\n2. Use of the term \"hazardous constituents\" is interpreted to indicate that, within the broad category of wastes that might be \"hazardous\" under RCRA Section 1004(5), corrective action should be focused on the specific subset of \"hazardous constituents.\" It also means that corrective action is not limited to \"hazardous wastes\" but extends to hazardous constituents regardless of whether they were derived from hazardous wastes. This means that hazardous constituents that are (or were) contained in nonhazardous solid wastes are subject to corrective action."
  ],
  "abbreviation": "HW",
  "subject": [
    "Environmental events",
    "Health and safety",
    "Climate change",
    "Enforcement and compliance"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Environmental Issues Terms & Acronyms",
    "Terms of Env; RCRA Glossary of Terms; Terms of Environment",
    "Pesticides Glossary",
    "Superfund for Students and Teachers Glossary",
    "Universal Waste: Glossary of Regulatory Terms",
    "RadTown Glossary",
    "I-BEAM Glossary of Terms",
    "RCRA Orientation Manual 2008 Glossary",
    "EPA Report on the Environment Glossary at http://www.epa.gov/ncea/roe/glossary.htm; Report on the Environment (ROE) Glossary",
    "Definition truncated. For full definition see 40 CFR 261.3 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 240.101 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 243.101 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 302.3 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 260.10 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 63.1201 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 270.2 (CFR 2018); 40 CFR 146.3 (CFR 2018); 40 CFR 144.3 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 2.305 (CFR 2018)",
    "EPA EV-Environmental Events-Waste",
    "EPA Emergency Responder Health and Safety Manual -Chapter 1: Site-Specific Health and Safety Plan (HASP) Development",
    "EPA's Envirofacts",
    "Resilience and Adaptation in New England (RAINE) Glossary",
    "Corrective Action 101 Key Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/hazardous-waste/"
}