Making Sense of RCRA: Part II,What it Means

摘要

Over the past 30 years, change in industrial cleaning—and indeed in all manufacturing—has been driven primarily by three sweeping regulatory measures: EPA's Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); the classification by EPA of some chemicals as Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs); and OSHA's management of chemicals in the workplace through the setting of numerical exposure limits. In last month's column, we simplified (to a degree) the bases used by EPA to classify a waste as hazardous.