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Hazardous Waste (Lecture 1)
Hazardous Waste (Lecture 1)
Waste???
A material, substance, or by-product) eliminated or
discarded as no longer useful or required after the
completion of a process.
OR
any unwanted or discarded material we produce that
is may be a solid or a liquid or gas.
Toxic waste
•A is only waste that when ingested or
adsorbed is harmful or fatal to living organism
•So Hazardous waste may be sometimes toxic.
But toxic waste always be Hazardous waste
Sources
•Toxic waste results from industrial, chemical, and
biological processes
Sources of hazardous waste
•by products of industrial , domestic activities
•mining sites and mineral processing sites
•agricultural facilities and research laboratories
•All sources that discharges liquid , solid and gas
that fit the definition of Hazardous waste can be
regarded as hazardous waste.
•agricultural land and agroindustry
•contaminated sites and building materials
Categories of hazardous waste
1.Listed (Pedigree history background and derivation)
2.Characteristics (based on chemistry)
3.Universal
4.Mixed
1.: Wastes that EPA has determined are hazardous. The lists
include the F-list (wastes from common manufacturing and
industrial processes), K-list (wastes from specific industries), and
P- and U-lists (wastes from commercial chemical products)
2.: Wastes that do not meet any of the listings above but that
exhibit ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity, or toxicity.
3.: Batteries, pesticides, mercury- containing equipment (e.g.,
thermostats) and lamps (e.g., fluorescent bulbs).
4.Waste that contains both radioactive and hazardous waste
components.
Hazardous Waste characteristics