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2. Hazardous waste - Wikipedia

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   "In terms of hazardous waste, a landfill is defined as a disposal facility or part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed or on land and which is not a pile, a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an underground injection well, a salt dome formation, a salt bed formation, an underground mine, a cave, or a corrective action ...

3. List of waste disposal incidents - Wikipedia

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   hazardous waste Canada Syringe Tide: 1987-88 United States Techa River: radioactive contamination Russia Teckomatorp: 1970s Sweden Times Beach, Missouri: dioxin scare 1983 United States Tonoshō, Kagawa: industrial waste dump Japan Tui mine tailings dam New Zealand DuPont Washington Works: perfluorooctanoic acid dump 1951-2003 United States ...

4. Hazardous waste in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The "Derived-from Rule" (40 CFR Section 261.3(b)) applies to a waste that is generated from the treatment, storage or disposal of a hazardous waste (for example, the ash from the incineration of hazardous waste). Wastes "derived" in this manner may be regulated as hazardous wastes.

5. List of Superfund sites - Wikipedia

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   A map of Superfund sites as of October 2013. Red indicates currently on final National Priority List, yellow is proposed, green is deleted (usually meaning having been cleaned up). Superfund sites are polluted locations in the United States requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. Sites include landfills ...

6. National Priorities List - Wikipedia

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   The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), also known as "Superfund", requires that the criteria provided by the Hazard Ranking System (HRS) be used to make a list of national priorities of the known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants in the United States. [2]

7. Category:Hazardous waste - Wikipedia

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   Pages in category "Hazardous waste" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

8. EPA may list PFAS as hazardous substance - AOL

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   Feb. 3—SANTA FE — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced two proposed rules "to ensure that certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as 'forever ...

9. Dangerous goods - Wikipedia

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   An example for dangerous goods is hazardous waste which is waste that has substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment. [1] Hazardous materials are often subject to chemical regulations.