Industrial Waste

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-014227",
  "term": "Industrial Waste",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Unwanted materials produced in or eliminated from an industrial operation and categorized under a variety of headings, such as liquid wastes, sludge, solid wastes, and hazardous wastes.\n\n2. Refers to nonhazardous wastes discarded at industrial sites from packaging and administrative sources. Examples include corrugated boxes, plastic film, wood pallets, lunchroom wastes, and office paper. Excludes industrial process wastes from manufacturing operations. (U.S. EPA, 1996b)\n\n3. Unwanted materials from an industrial operation; may be liquid, sludge, solid, or hazardous waste.\n\n4. Any liquid, solid, semi-solid, or gaseous waste generated as a direct or indirect result of the manufacture of a product or the performance of a service. Any such waste which would pose a present or potential threat to human health or to the environment or with inherent properties which make the disposal of such waste in a landfill difficult to manage by normal means is an industrial process waste. Industrial process waste includes but is not limited to spent pickling liquors, cutting oils, chemical catalysts, distillation bottoms, etching acids, equipment cleanings, paint sludges, incinerator ashes (including but not limited to ash resulting from the incineration of potentially infectious medical waste), core sands, metallic dust sweepings, asbestos dust, and off-specification, contaminated or recalled wholesale or retail products. Specifically included are uncontaminated packaging materials, uncontaminated machinery components, general household waste, landscape waste and construction or demolition debris.",
  "subject": "General environmental",
  "references": [
    "Environmental Issues Terms & Acronyms; Pesticides Glossary",
    "Measuring Recycling Guidance Glossary",
    "Terms of Environment",
    "Land Pollution Control Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/industrial-waste/"
}