AWMA Annual Meeting, June 20-24, 2004, Indianapolis, IN EPA Safe Buildings Program: Update on Building Decontamination Waste Disposal Area

摘要

Significant quantities of waste are generated during building decontamination operations resulting from terrorist attacks using biological weapons (BW), chemical weapons (CW), or toxic industrial chemicals (TICs). These waste streams may include aqueous solutions, furniture, ceiling tiles, wall hangings, carpeting, HVAC filters, and personal protective equipment from the cleanup crews. These materials may be contaminated with CW, BW, or TICs at varying, possibly unknown levels. The safe disposal of these materials will involve a combination of packaging, transporting, thermal treatment, and landfilling, either of the materials directly, or of the thermal treatment residues. This paper gives a status update on the US EPA's program of laboratory-, bench-, and pilot-scale research and guidance document development in regards to the safe disposal of these materials.