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- Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste Center of Expertise (US Army Corps of Engineers) - cleans up sites contaminated with hazardous waste, radioactive waste, or ordnance.
- Hazardous Waste Clean-Up Information (CLU-IN) - Information about innovative treatment technology for the hazardous waste remediation community. Programs, organizations, publications, and other tools. Developed by the U.S. EPA, but intended as a forum for all waste. remediation stakeholders.
- EPA's Office of Solid Waste - Information on municipal solid waste, hazardous waste, and industrial waste.
- DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) - U.S. Department of Energy waste management (hazardous waste, radioactive waste) and environmental remediation (waste site clean-up) programs.
- Household Hazardous Waste Program - Information about household products that can be hazardous if disposed improperly, and schedule for household hazardous waste collection events in the state's counties.
- Coastal Hazardous Waste Site Reviews - US NOAA review documents describing their evaluations of more than 300 hazardous waste sites that EPA has proposed for addition to the National Priorities List.
- US Plasma Inc. - Markets plasma gasification for the destruction of municipal solid waste, industrial wastes, biomedical wastes and hazardous wastes.
- Quinte Waste Solutions - Offering waste reduction programs for the Quinte area in southern Ontario, this is an award-winning program achieving 63% reduction in waste that includes blue box recycling, composting, household hazardous waste collection.
- Elastec/American Marine - Manufacturer of variety of small, multipurpose batch load incinerators for burning medical waste, waste oil, oily materials, paper, filters, wood, restaurant waste, organic materials and general non-hazardous waste.
- International Directory of Solid Waste Management - The International Solid Waste Association Yearbook provides a comprehensive annual reference guide to the global solid waste industry with state-of-the-art articles, reports and case studies on all aspects of solid waste management
Wikipedia Articles
- Mixed waste (radioactive/hazardous) - According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, mixed waste (MW) is a waste type defined as follows; "MW contains both hazardous waste (as defined by RCRA and its amendments) and radioactive waste (as defined by AEA and its amendments). It is jointly regulated by NRC or NRC's Agreement States and EPA or EPA's RCRA Authorized States.
- Household Hazardous Waste - Household hazardous waste (HHW) is the term for common household chemicals and substances for which the owner no longer has a use. Exhibiting many of the same dangerous characteristics as fully regulated hazardous waste, HHW is not regulated by the EPA.
- Hazardous waste - Put simply, a hazardous waste is waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment and generally exhibits one or more of these characteristics:
- Basel Convention - The Basel Convention (verbose: Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal) is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to prevent transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries (LDCs). It does not, however, address the movement of radioactive waste.
- Municipal solid waste - Municipal solid waste (MSW) is a waste type that includes predominantly household waste (domestic waste) with sometimes the addition of commercial wastes collected by a municipality within a given area. They are in either solid or semisolid form and generally exclude industrial hazardous wastes.