The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines household hazardous waste (HHW) as any unwanted household products that contain corrosive, toxic, ignitable, or reactive ingredients. Examples of ...

The Natural Resource Committee of the League of Women Voters of the Pensacola Bay Area studies issues and determines what positions we take and present to the local League for consideration. This is ...

With Lowell’s trash and recycling in the headlines recently, the time would be right to turn the spotlight on a different but related issue, the disposal of hazardous household waste. The problem here ...

Most wastes generated in the laboratories and shops located on campus are prohibited from disposal in the regular trash or down the drain. Many of these wastes are regulated under the federal Resource ...

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is committed to the health and safety of both humans and the environment in all operations of the chemical enterprise Regulations that support the protection of the ...

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) is the public law in the United States that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the authority to control hazardous and non-hazardous solid ...

Each year, people around the world dump a staggering 2.12 billion tons of waste. One of the biggest reasons for this astounding amount of waste is that human beings trash approximately 99% of ...

Trent Thompson, environmental programs manager in the county’s Department of Health and Environment, works the reblending machines for latex paint at the county’s new household hazardous waste ...