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Hazardous waste, the Glossary

Hazardous waste is waste that must be handled properly to avoid damaging human health or the environment.^[1]

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Aerosol

An aerosol is a suspension of fine solid particles or liquid droplets in air or another gas.

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Americium

Americium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Am and atomic number 95.

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Americium-241

Americium-241 (Am-241) is an isotope of americium.

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Antifreeze

An antifreeze is an additive which lowers the freezing point of a water-based liquid.

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Asbestos

Asbestos is a naturally occurring fibrous silicate mineral.

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Ash

Ash or ashes are the solid remnants of fires.

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The Bamako Convention (in full: Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa) is a treaty of African nations prohibiting the import of any hazardous (including radioactive) waste.

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Basel Convention

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to restrict the transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries.

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Bhopal disaster

The Bhopal disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy was a chemical accident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.

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Bottom ash

Bottom ash is part of the non-combustible residue of combustion in a power plant, boiler, furnace, or incinerator.

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Brownfield regulation and development

Brownfields are defined by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as properties that are complicated by the potential presence of pollutants or otherwise hazardous substances.

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Car

A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.

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Cathode-ray tube

A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a phosphorescent screen.

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Chemical reaction

A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the chemical transformation of one set of chemical substances to another.

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Computer

A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation).

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Corrosion

Corrosion is a natural process that converts a refined metal into a more chemically stable oxide.

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Dry cleaning

Dry cleaning is any cleaning process for clothing and textiles using a solvent other than water. Hazardous waste and Dry cleaning are Occupational safety and health.

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Electric battery

An electric battery is a source of electric power consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections for powering electrical devices.

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Electroplating

Electroplating, also known as electrochemical deposition or electrodeposition, is a process for producing a metal coating on a solid substrate through the reduction of cations of that metal by means of a direct electric current.

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Environmental hazard

Environmental hazards are those hazards that affect biomes or ecosystems.

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Environmental racism

Environmental racism, ecological racism, or ecological apartheid is a form of racism leading to negative environmental outcomes such as landfills, incinerators, and hazardous waste disposal disproportionately impacting communities of color, violating substantive equality.

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Environmental remediation is the cleanup of hazardous substances dealing with the removal, treatment and containment of pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, groundwater, sediment.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.

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Fluorescent lamp

A fluorescent lamp, or fluorescent tube, is a low-pressure mercury-vapor gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light.

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Fungicide

Fungicides are pesticides used to kill parasitic fungi or their spores.

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Gade v. National Solid Wastes Management Ass'n

Gade v. National Solid Wastes Management Association, 505 U.S. 88 (1992), is a United States labor law case of the United States Supreme Court.

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Geographic information system

A geographic information system (GIS) consists of integrated computer hardware and software that store, manage, analyze, edit, output, and visualize geographic data.

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Herbicide

Herbicides, also commonly known as weed killers, are substances used to control undesired plants, also known as weeds.

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Household hazardous waste

Household hazardous waste (HHW) was a term coined by Dave Galvin from Seattle, Washington in 1982 as part of the fulfillment of a US EPA grant.

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Hydrochloric acid

Hydrochloric acid, also known as muriatic acid or spirits of salt, is an aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride (HCl).

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Index of waste management articles

Articles related to waste management include.

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Injection well

An injection well is a device that places fluid deep underground into porous rock formations, such as sandstone or limestone, or into or below the shallow soil layer.

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Insecticide

Insecticides are pesticides used to kill insects.

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The international community is a term used in geopolitics and international relations to refer to a broad group of people and governments of the world.

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Isotope

Isotopes are distinct nuclear species (or nuclides) of the same chemical element.

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Landfill

A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials.

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Lead-acid battery

The lead-acid battery is a type of rechargeable battery first invented in 1859 by French physicist Gaston Planté.

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List of solid waste treatment technologies

The article contains a list of different forms of solid waste treatment technologies and facilities employed in waste management infrastructure.

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List of Superfund sites

Superfund sites are polluted locations in the United States requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations.

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List of waste management companies

In this list List of notable waste management companies, many entries are Multinational corporations: the associated country listing is by location of Management HQ.

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List of waste types

Waste comes in many different forms and may be categorized in a variety of ways.

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Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation.

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Mercury (element)

Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80. Hazardous waste and Mercury (element) are Occupational safety and health.

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Mixed waste (radioactive/hazardous)

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, mixed waste (MW) is a waste type defined as follows; "MW contains both hazardous waste (as defined by RCRA and its amendments) and radioactive waste (as defined by AEA and its amendments).

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone).

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Morris County, New Jersey

Morris County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey, about west of New York City.

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Motor oil

Motor oil, engine oil, or engine lubricant is any one of various substances used for the lubrication of internal combustion engines.

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National Priorities List

The National Priorities List (NPL) is the priority list of hazardous waste sites in the United States eligible for long-term remedial investigation and remedial action (cleanup) financed under the federal Superfund program.

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Oil refinery

An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum naphtha. Hazardous waste and oil refinery are Occupational safety and health.

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Paint

Paint is a material or mixture that, when applied to a solid material and allowed to dry, adds a film-like layer.

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Pest (organism)

A pest is any organism harmful to humans or human concerns.

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Phase transition

In physics, chemistry, and other related fields like biology, a phase transition (or phase change) is the physical process of transition between one state of a medium and another.

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Photographic processing

Photographic processing or photographic development is the chemical means by which photographic film or paper is treated after photographic exposure to produce a negative or positive image.

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Pollution

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.

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Printed circuit board

A printed circuit board (PCB), also called printed wiring board (PWB), is a medium used to connect or "wire" components to one another in a circuit.

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PubMed

PubMed is a free database including primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics.

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Pyrolysis

Pyrolysis is the process of thermal decomposition of materials at elevated temperatures, often in an inert atmosphere.

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Radioactive waste

Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material.

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Recycling

Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.

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Refrigerant

A refrigerant is a working fluid used in the refrigeration cycle of air conditioning systems and heat pumps where in most cases they undergo a repeated phase transition from a liquid to a gas and back again.

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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), enacted in 1976, is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste.

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Right to life

The right to life is the belief that a human or other animal has the right to live and, in particular, should not be killed by another entity.

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Sludge

Sludge is a semi-solid slurry that can be produced from a range of industrial processes, from water treatment, wastewater treatment or on-site sanitation systems.

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Smoke detector

A smoke detector is a device that senses smoke, typically as an indicator of fire.

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Soil contamination

Soil contamination, soil pollution, or land pollution as a part of land degradation is caused by the presence of xenobiotic (human-made) chemicals or other alteration in the natural soil environment.

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Solvent

A solvent (from the Latin solvō, "loosen, untie, solve") is a substance that dissolves a solute, resulting in a solution.

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Superfund

Superfund is a United States federal environmental remediation program established by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA).

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Superfund Research Program

The Superfund Research Program (SRP) was created within the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in 1986 under the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA).

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Sustainability

Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long time.

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Sustainable development

Sustainable development is an approach to growth and human development that aims to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

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Sustainable Development Goal 12

Sustainable Development Goal 12 (SDG 12 or Global Goal 12), titled "responsible consumption and production", is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations in 2015.

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Switch

In electrical engineering, a switch is an electrical component that can disconnect or connect the conducting path in an electrical circuit, interrupting the electric current or diverting it from one conductor to another.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound.

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Thermometer

A thermometer is a device that measures temperature (the degree of hotness or coldness of an object) or temperature gradient (the rates of change of temperature in space).

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Toxic waste

Toxic waste is any unwanted material in all forms that can cause harm (e.g. by being inhaled, swallowed, or absorbed through the skin).

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Toxicity

Toxicity is the degree to which a chemical substance or a particular mixture of substances can damage an organism.

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Toxicity characteristic leaching procedure

Toxicity characteristic leaching procedure (TCLP) is a soil sample extraction method for chemical analysis employed as an analytical method to simulate leaching through a landfill.

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Toxics Release Inventory

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available database containing information on toxic chemical releases and other waste management activities in the United States.

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TOXMAP

TOXMAP was a geographic information system (GIS) from the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) that was deprecated on December 16, 2019.

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Triad (environmental science)

The Triad is an approach by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to decision-making for hazardous-waste site cleanup.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters.

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United States National Library of Medicine

The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library.

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Universal waste

Universal waste is a category of waste materials designated as "hazardous waste", but containing materials that are very common.

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Vapor intrusion

Vapor intrusion (VI) is the process by which chemicals, usually volatile organic compounds (VOCs), in soil or groundwater migrate to indoor air above or around a contaminated site.

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Waste

Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazardous_waste

Also known as Hazardous Waste Disposal, Hazardous Waste Identification, Hazardous Waste Management, Hazardous Waste Recycling, Hazardous Waste Treatment, Hazardous Wastes, Hazardous waste facility, Hazardous waste site, Hazardous waste sites, Hazardous waste storage, Special waste, Toxic Waste Disposal, Toxic waste dump, Toxic waste dumping, Toxic waste site.

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