Many states in the US impose taxes on hazardous waste. This paper conducts an empirical evaluation of the determinants of these taxes and reviews earlier research on their effects on hazardous waste. Earlier studies have shown that the taxes affect waste management, but my results and other evidence suggest that the tax-induced changes may not have improved welfare. Taxes on industrial hazardou...

1,2-, 1,3and 1,4-Dichlorobenzene (DCB) have been identified in at least 281, 175, and 330, respectively, of the 1,662 hazardous waste sites that have been proposed for inclusion on the EPA National Priorities List (NPL), respectively (HazDat 2005). However, the number of sites evaluated for these DCB isomers is not known. The frequency of these sites can be seen in Figures 6-1, 6-2, and 6-3. Of...

1,2-, 1,3and 1,4-Dichlorobenzene (DCB) have been identified in at least 281, 175, and 330, respectively, of the 1,662 hazardous waste sites that have been proposed for inclusion on the EPA National Priorities List (NPL), respectively (HazDat 2005). However, the number of sites evaluated for these DCB isomers is not known. The frequency of these sites can be seen in Figures 6-1, 6-2, and 6-3. Of...

Fluorides, hydrogen fluoride, and fluorine have been identified in at least 188 of the 1,636 hazardous waste sites that have been proposed for inclusion on the EPA National Priorities List (NPL) (HazDat 2003). However, the number of sites evaluated for fluorides, hydrogen fluoride, and fluorine is not known. The frequency of these sites can be seen in Figure 6-1. Of these sites, all are located...

We consider a Periodic Load-dependent Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (PLCVRP) encountered by medical centers and medical waste collection companies for the design of a weekly inventory routing schedule to transport medical wastes to treatment sites. In addition to minimization of transportation risk, occupational risk related to temporary storage of hazardous wastes at the health-care cent...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the risk of congenital anomalies in relation to an index of geographic density of landfill sites across 5x5 km grid squares in England. METHODS 2 km zones were constructed in a geographical information system around 8804 landfill sites, including 607 that handled special (hazardous) wastes, and intersected with postcode coordinates of over 10 million births (136,821 w...

The Technology Support Projects, Technology Support Center (TSC) for Monitoring and Site Characterization was established in 1987 as a result of an agreement between the Office of Research and Development (ORD), the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) and all ten Regional Offices. The objectives of the Technology Support Project and the TSC were to make available and provide OR...

there are enormous quantities of unknown composition of hazardous wastes in tehran without any control, safe disposal and treatment. this study was done to identify hazardous wastes and to control this wastes by establishing a treatment, storage and disposal facility. according to available statistics there are 4461 different industries in tehran, out of which sample were chosen each having ove...