Waste legislation

United States Solid Waste Legislation and Regulations. 25-12... 

UNITED STATES SOLID WASTE LEGISLATION AND REGULATIONS... 

Solid Waste Disposal Act, 1965 Modern sohd-waste legislation dates from 196.5, when the Sohd Waste Disposal Act, Title II of Public Law 88-272, was enacted by Congress. Tbe principal intent of this act was to promote the demonstration, construction, and apphcation... 

South Carolina DHEC, Reduction of Hazardous Waste Legislative Summary 2004 Report, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Columbia, SC, February 2005. 

The second possibility is the European waste legislation, which includes the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS). The RoHS Directive is closely linked with the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) which sets collection, recycling, and recovery targets for electrical goods and is part of a legislative initiative to solve the problem of toxic e-waste. 

The RISKCYCLE project deals with chemicals, but with those beyond their actual use phase, when they have entered the phase after end of service life, that means the waste phase. But is this area not considered legally outside the scope of REACH and more covered by waste legislation The answer to this question is quite clear. Without doubt REACH covers the waste period, too. Thus, REACH is also suitable, in principle, to implement the findings of RISKCYCLE by legislation or regulation. 

ECHA points out that some materials currently considered as waste might in future be considered to have ceased to be waste [15]. These materials will then be out of the scope of waste legislation, and - if not covered by an exemption - will potentially fall under REACH. Clarification of end-of-waste criteria is a matter for waste legislation. In accordance with the general principle of subsidiarity of the European Union law, and following the revised Waste Framework Directive, Member States may decide case by case whether certain waste has ceased to be waste, where end-of-waste criteria have not been set at Community level. Member States have already worked for use of this regulation, like, e.g., the Waste Quality Protocol in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland [16]. 

What will be the outcome of the RISKCYCLE project and how is the influence on research policy and legislation Different ways for implementation are conceivable the Ecodesign Directive and European Waste Legislation (RoHS, WEEE and REACH). 

The German Environmental Ministry is reported to have attacked European proposals to ban substances such as specific flame retardants in forthcoming regulations for recycling electrical and electronic equipment. Initial proposals from the EU Commission on the disposal of waste electrical and electronic equipment, include a phaseout of PBDEs, despite preliminary findings under EU risk assessment that there is no need for risk reduction from the two types, decaBDE and octaBDE mainly used in such equipment. The Ministry is said to be concerned at the excessively prescriptive and restrictive system being proposed, and that substance restrictions should not be addressed in waste legislation, but should be based on life cycle risk assessments. 

Davenport, G.B. The ABCs of Hazardous Waste Legislation, Chem Eng. Progress, 45 (May 1992). 

Davenport, G., The ABCs of hazardous waste legislation, Chem. Eng. Progr., May, 45-50, 1992. 

EC (2000a). Report from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the implementation of Community Waste Legislation Directive 75/442/EEC on waste, Directive 91/689/EEC on hazardous waste, Directive 75/439/EEC on waste oils and Directive 86/278/ EEC on sewage sludge for the period 1995-1997. European Commission, Bruxelles. 

Davenport, G. B. (1992b) Chem. Eng. Prog. 88 (May) 45. The ABC of hazardous waste legislation. Davenport, G. B. (1992c) Chem. Eng. Prog. 88 (Sept.) 30. Understanding the water pollution laws governing CPI plants. 

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