Hazardous waste acute

The waste contains such dangerous chemicals that it could pose a threat to human health and the environment even when properly managed. Such wastes are known as acutely hazardous wastes. 

Acutely hazardous wastes are the second most common type of listed waste. U. S. EPA designates a waste as acutely hazardous if it contains the appendix constituents that scientific studies have shown to be fatal to humans or animals in low doses. In a few cases, acutely hazardous wastes contain no appendix constituents, but are extremely dangerous for another reason. An example is a listed waste that designates unused discarded formulations of nitroglycerine as acutely hazardous. Although nitroglycerine is not an appendix hazardous constituent, wastes containing unused... 

The hazard codes assigned to listed wastes affect the regulations that apply to handling the waste. For instance, acute hazardous wastes accompanied by the hazard code (H) are subject to stricter management standards than most other wastes. 

Small Quantity Generator (SQG) generates less than 1000 kg of hazardous waste in a month, and/or less than 1 kg of acutely hazardous waste (acutely hazardous waste is listed in the State regulations). 

Note This matrix guide does not reflect acutely hazardous wastes. 

Additional flexibility is offered by allowing an industrial plant to accumulate up to 55 gal (or 208.18 L) of hazardous waste, or one quart (or 1 L) of acutely hazardous waste, at each point where the plant generates its waste if the plant meets the following conditions ... 

The USEPA has developed extensive lists of waste streams (40 CFR Sections 261.31, 261.32) and chemical products (40 CFR Section 261.33) that are considered hazardous wastes if and when disposed of or intended for disposal. The waste streams listed in Sections 261.31 and 261.32 include numerous pesticide manufacturing and formulating process wastes. The lists of commercial chemical products in Section 261.33 include two sublists both include numerous insecticides, herbicides, and other pesticides. The E List (Table 7) identifies pesticides and other commercial chemicals regulated as acutely hazardous wastes when discarded. The F List (Table 8) identifies pesticides that are regulated as toxic (hazardous) wastes when discarded. 

Listed pesticides (formulated, manufacturing-use, and off-specification) are regulated as hazardous wastes under the RCRA if they are discarded rather than used for their intended purposes. State listings are often more extensive. Both onsite and offsite disposal options are regulated under the RCRA. Onsite facilities that generate more than 1 kg/month of acutely hazardous wastes in the RCRA E List or 1000 kg/month of any waste as defined in 40 CFR 261.31, 261.32, or 261.33 will require an RCRA hazardous waste permit for treatment or for storage for more than 90 days. Offsite disposal must be handled by an RCRA-permitted facility. 

Any products, residues or container liners contaminated with BCME are considered acute hazardous waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) (40 CFR 261.33 (c)), and must be disposed of by transport to a RCRA waste storage and disposal facility. The preferred method of disposal is incineration (OSHA 1974 Sittig 1985). 

Acute hazardous wastes are substances that are fatal to humans in low doses or that have an oral LD50 toxicity (in rats) of less than 50 mg/kg, an inhalation LD50 toxicity (in rats) of less than 2 mg/L, a dermal LD50 toxicity (in rabbits) of less than 200 mg/kg, or that are capable of causing serious, irreversible, or incapacitating illness. 

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ) has incorporated by reference the federal RCRA regulations for identification and listing of hazardous wastes (Oregon Administrative Rules 340-101-001). In addition to the federally listed acute hazardous wastes, ODEQ regulations include the following as state-specific listed hazardous wastes ... 

At TOCDF, dunnage is considered an acute hazardous waste (i.e., P999) that must be treated on-site if it... 

Be otherwise capable of causing or significantly contributing to an increase in serious, irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness. Wastes listed in this manner are classified as acute hazardous wastes that become subject to full hazardous waste regulation in smaller quantities than those for other hazardous wastes. An example of an acute listed hazardous waste is P0I5, beryllium powder. 

Based on the first three criteria, the US EPA has promulgated several hundred listed wastes, dividing the listed wastes into three groupings wastes from nonspecific sources ( F wastes ), wastes from specific sources ( K wastes ), and (two types of) commercial chemical products ( P or U wastes ). All wastes on the P list are acute hazardous wastes. 

The chemical products listed on Table 4.4 are identified as acute hazardous wastes and a container or inner liner removed from a container that was used to hold any of these products is also considered a hazardous waste imless it has been triply rinsed. 

RCRA, 40CFR261.30 hazardous codes, A B C D E and F, which represent corrosive waste (A) toxicity characteristic waste (B) acute hazardous waste (C) ignitable waste (D) reactive waste (E) and toxic waste (F) respectively A B C D E F... 

EPA Classified Acute Hazardous Waste, RCRA Waste Number P023 DOT Label Poison, UN 2232... 

EPA Classified Acute Hazardous Waste RCRA Waste Number P054 DOT Label Elammable Liquid and Poison, UN 1185 Formula C2H4NH MW 43.08 CAS [151-... 

EPA Designated Acute Hazardous Waste, RCRA Waste Number P056 DOT Label Poison and Oxidizer, UN 1045 Symbol F at. wt. 18.998 at. no. 1 Formula F2 MW 37.996 CAS [7782-41-4]... 

In addition to the four classes of hazardous wastes discussed above — ignitable, corrosive, reactive, and toxic wastes—there are 203 individual compounds and salts of some of these compounds as well as soluble cyanide salts that are listed as acute hazardous wastes, and each designated with a RCRA Hazardous Waste Number, starting with the letter P. In addition, there are 455 compounds plus the salts and isomers of some of these compounds, which are designated as toxic wastes. These substances are assigned an RCRA Waste Number, which starts with a U. Because of space limitations. 

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