ENVIROMENTAL HEALTH

Environmental health: Hazardous Waste



Environmental health: Hazardous Waste in California

Hazardous waste is waste in any form that may cause illness or death or is otherwise dangerous to human health. A waste is said to exhibit a hazardous characteristic if it is flammable, oxidizable, corrosive, reactive, or toxic. California law affects firms storing less than 220 pounds or 27 gallons of waste on-site and all firms generating waste oil, asbestos, or polychlorinated biphenyls. The Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act requires that the waste be disposed of within 90 days once those threshholds have been exceeded.

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