Amendments waste management

Resource Recovery Act, 1970 The Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965 was amended by Public Law 95-512, the Resources Recovery Ac4 of 1970. This act directed that the emphasis of the national solid-waste-management program should be shitted from disposal as its pri-maiy objective to that of recycling and reuse of recoverable materials in sohd wastes or the conversion of wastes to energy. 

The J 984 Federal Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA, pronounced "hiss-wa") to RCRA requires phasing-out land disposal of hazardous waste. Some of the other mandates of this law include increased enforcement authority for EPA, more stringent hazardous waste management standards, and a comprehensive underground storage tank program. 

All owner or operator who has already prepared a Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures (SPCC) plan need only amend tliat plan to incorporate hazardous waste management provisions sufficient to comply with tliis section... 

The hazardous waste regulatory program as we know it today began with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) in 1976. Since its enactment in 1976, the RCRA has been amended several times, to promote safer solid and hazardous waste management programs (Dennison, 1993). The Used Oil Recycling Act of 1980 and the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 (HSWA) were the major amendments to the original law. 

EPA (1980b). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 40 CFR Part 261— Hazardous waste management system Identification and listing of hazardous waste, Final rule and interim final rule, 45 FR 33064, as amended (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington). 

Mandated by the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments to RCRA in 1984, RCRA corrective action requires cleanup of releases of hazardous waste or hazardous constituents from solid waste management units at RCRA facilities (RCRA Section 3004 (u) and (v)). Similar to the CERCLA program, RCRA corrective action pertains specifically to cleanup at RCRA facilities. 

Policy in the USA is very similar to that in Europe, and is based upon a hierarchy of waste management options. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) was introduced in 1976 and provided for what is known as "cradle to grave" control of waste - from its generation to final disposal. Amendments... 

As in Europe, waste minimisation is a key element of US policy, endorsed by regulatory requirements including the Pollution Prevention Act (1990), The Clean Air Act(1967) and the amendments of 1990, the Toxics Substances Control Act (1976), and The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (1976) The Pollution Prevention Act (1990) arose out of growing national concern with waste generation and management practices (Thurber and Sherman, 1995), and In it s deliberations, US Congress declared that "source reduction is fimdamentally different and more desirable than waste management and pollution control". 

Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic. 2005b. Decree of 11 July 2005 on the condition of depositing waste in landfills and its use on the surface of the ground and amendments to Decree no. 41/2005 Coll, on details of waste management, [on line]. Available World Wide Web . 

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