Overview Learning Objectives 9.1 Hazardous Waste: Identification and Classification 9.1.1 Identification 9.1.2 Classification 9.2 Hazardous Waste Management 9.2.1 Generation 9.2.2 Storage and collection 9.2.3 Transfer and transport 9.2.4 Processing 9.2.5 Disposal 9.3 Hazardous Waste Treatment 9.3.1 Physical and chemical treatment 9.3.2 Thermal treatment 9.3.3 Biological treatment 9.4 Pollution ...

Detection of traces of toxic chemicals in drinking water supplies, in polar ice caps, groundwater sources and episodes such as those in Minamata Bay, Japan and Love Canal, USA have focussed the attention of the public worldwide on the risks posed by the inappropriate disposal of hazardous waste and accidental release of toxic chemicals into the environment. In India regulations to control and m...

Growth of the population and of industrialization, and substandard disposal of the increased waste products thus generated, have resulted in numerous documented cases of harm to human, plant, and animal health. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (1976), its stated goals, and its intended means of implementation, are discussed relative to hazardous waste problems. Subtitle C of this Act,...

T management of toxic waste has become an increasingly global business. The worldwide generation of hazardous waste is currently around 440 million tons, of which an estimated 10 percent makes its way across international boundaries.1 A variety of industries generate toxic wastes, ranging from chemicals to electronics and from plastics to metal plating. These toxic wastes have adverse affects o...

Near to two decade after the Basel Convention (BC) under United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), most of the nations are still working for Waste Electrical and JIBC December 2011, Vol. 16, No.3 2 Electronic Equipment (WEEE) or E-waste disposal programme. The Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal is the most comprehensive global environm...

The "hazard" associated with a waste essentially controls the overall engineering approach to finding suitable alternatives for solving potential disposal problems. It should be recognized that all factors affecting environmental equilibrium must be considered, including product sales, process design, financing, pre- and end-of-pipe treatment, residuals management, and ultimate bioaccumulation ...

It is easy to get the impression that there is a distinct battle' going on between those who use the terms waste minimization2 and waste red ~ c f i o n . ~ This notion, however, would preclude the concept that there may be an evolutionary transition taking place that would bring industry from one level to the next. In the related fields of environmental management4 and quality control: argumen...