enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Conservation_and...

    Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; Other short titles: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976: Long title: An Act to provide technical and financial assistance for the development of management plans and facilities for the recovery of energy and other resources from discarded materials and for the safe disposal of discarded materials, and to regulate the management of hazardous waste.

  3. Hazardous waste - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazardous_waste

    In regulatory terms, RCRA hazardous wastes are wastes that appear on one of the four hazardous wastes lists (F-list, K-list, P-list, or U-list), or exhibit at least one of the following four characteristics; ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity, or toxicity. in the US, Hazardous wastes are regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery ...

  4. Hazardous waste in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazardous_waste_in_the...

    RCRA's recordkeeping system helps to track the life cycle of hazardous material and reduces the amount of hazardous waste illegally disposed. Regulators can monitor hazardous waste by following the "trail" of the waste as is transferred from one entity to another, from the time it is generated until it is disposed.

  5. Exemptions for fracking under United States federal law

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exemptions_for_fracking...

    The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976 was passed "to protect human health and the environment from the potential hazards of waste disposal, to conserve energy and natural resources, to reduce the amount of waste generated, and to ensure that wastes are managed in an environmentally sound manner."

  6. List of energy abbreviations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_energy_abbreviations

    RCRA—Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (US) RDF—refuse derived fuel (electricity) REA—Rural Electrification Administration (US) REC—Renewable energy credit (US) RECS—Residential Energy Consumption Survey (US) REEEP—Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership; RER—Renewable Energy Rider; RES—Renewable energy source

  7. Mixed waste (radioactive/hazardous) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_waste_(radioactive...

    The fundamental and most comprehensive statutory definition is found in the Federal Facilities Compliance Act (FFCA) where Section 1004(41) was added to RCRA: "The term 'mixed waste' means waste that contains both hazardous waste and source, special nuclear, or byproduct material subject to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954."

  8. HAZMAT Class 6 Toxic and infectious substances - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAZMAT_Class_6_Toxic_and...

    Division 6.1: Poisonous material is a material, other than a gas, which is known to be so toxic to humans as to afford a hazard to health during transportation, or which, in the absence of adequate data on human toxicity:

  9. List of Superfund sites in Missouri - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in...

    This is a list of Superfund sites in Missouri designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]