Hazardous industrial waste

Berkowitz, J. B., Funkhouser, J. T., and Stevens, J. I., Unit Operations for Treatment of Hazardous Industrial Wastes, Noyes Data Corporation, Park Ridge, N.J., 1978. 

The beneficial reuse of foundry solid waste has long been carried out informally, particularly in the U.S. Foundry solid waste has always been used as fills around the foundry or nearby neighborhood. With the promulgation of strict environmental protection laws, foundry solid waste is now required to be landfilled. Later, spent foundry sand was selected as a daily cover for landfills that are cover short. However, many recyclers believe that foundry solid waste should not necessarily be disposed of in landfills where other hazardous industrial waste belongs, simply because the main fraction of foundry solid waste is nonhazardous and has value in fully or partially substituting for currently in-use materials, for example, construction aggregates, soils, and minerals. Thus, reuse of foundry solid waste is marketable. 

Wang, L.K., Hung, Y.T., Lo, H.H., and Yapijakis, C., Eds, Hazardous Industrial Waste Treatment, CRC Press-Taylor Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, 2007, 516pp. 

A successful modem hazardous industrial waste treatment program for a particular industry will include not only traditional water pollution control but also air pollution control, noise control, soil conservation, site remediation, radiation protection, groundwater protection, hazardous waste management, solid waste disposal, and combined industrial-municipal waste treatment and management. In fact, it should be a holistic environmental control program. Another intention of this handbook series is to provide technical and economical information on the development of the most feasible total environmental control program that can benefit both industry and local municipalities. Frequently, the most economically feasible methodology is a combined industrial-municipal waste treatment. 

Houk VS, DeMarini DM. 1988. Use of the microscreen phage-induction assay to assess the genotoxicity of 14 hazardous industrial wastes. Environ Mol Mutagen 11 13-29. 

Sandhu SS, Ma TH, Peng Y, et al. 1989. Clastogenicity evaluation of seven chemicals commonly found at hazardous industrial waste sites. Mutat Res 224 437-445. 

DeRenzo, D.J., "Unit Operations for Treatment of Hazardous Industrial Wastes," Noyes Data Corporation, 1978. 

Although not as widespread as arsenic, barium also occurs naturally in the environment in some areas. It can also enter water supplies through hazardous industrial waste discharges or releases. Small doses of barium are not harmful. However, it is quite dangerous when consumed in large quantities. The maximum amount of barium allowed in drinking water by the standard is 1.0 mg/L of water. 

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