Scientific and Technical Aspects of Hazardous Waste Management, Report from a Workshop Considering Problems Identified by the Intergovernmental Science, Engineering, and Technology Advisory Panel Held at College Park, Maryland on July 11-13, 1979

摘要

Proceedings of a workshop to consider analytical procedures to assess hazardous wastes, technologies for handling such wastes, and the siting of disposal facilities are reported. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 80 to 90 percent of this country's 35 million tons of hazardous waste is improperly disposed of. The conclusions and recommendations of the workshop for managing hazardous wastes include technology transfer, and testing of available analytical procedures to assess hazardous waste problems. Technologies for handling hazardous wastes fall into two broad categories: cleanup and prevention. The major recommendations call for technology development to reduce current and future waste production, and the development of techniques to and approaches for cleanup at inactive sites. Siting of hazardous waste disposal facilities is complicated by a combination of technical, economic, social, and political factors. To contain all pollutants at a site calls for technical research to focus on predictive methodologies, site monitoring, and containment or remedial actions.