Your house probably contains hazardous waste. Don’t put it in your garbage.
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Hazardous Waste Articles & Guides
Below you’ll find informative posts to help you learn safe ways to handle hazardous waste. Sharps Compliance is a nationwide provider of regulatory compliant services and has extensive experience helping companies in the healthcare industry.
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New EPA Generator Rule Part Four: Revisions that Apply to Very Small Quantity Generators
The new rule changed the name of the Generator Classification for those persons that produce the least amount of waste from Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator to Very Small Quantity Generator. There are Limited Requirements under both the previous regulations and the new final rule.
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New EPA Generator Rule Part Three: Hazardous Waste Determination
One of the most important, but often misunderstood parts of the hazardous waste (HW) regulations is the “Hazardous Waste Determination” that must be made by HW generators. As it is misunderstood, it is typically not done correctly. From different agency analyses, generators consistently fail to make an accurate hazardous waste determination, leading to the mismanagement of hazardous waste.
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New EPA Generator Rule Part Two: Definition of a Hazardous Waste Generator
A hazardous waste generator, by rule, is an entity, by site, whose acts or processes generate (produce or bring about) a solid waste that is:
- listed in the hazardous waste regulations,
- determined to be a characteristically hazardous, or
- otherwise identified as a hazardous waste.
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Hazardous Waste Generator Improvement Rule
Part One: Framework of Rule
With this new rule, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing revisions to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act’s (RCRA) hazardous waste generator regulatory program proposed on September 25, 2015.
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Part One: Framework of Rule”