Toxic Waste

Rafael Lopez Perez TOXIC WASTE Pollution Prevention GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS DEFINITIONS Pollution prevention consists of all those activities that reduce the generation of hazardous waste. Many terms are used to describe these activities: waste minimization, waste reduction, source reduction, waste diversion, pollution prevention, recycling, and reuse. In a recent policy statements EPA suggested the following hierarchy for management of wastes: * Source reduction * Recycling * Treatment * Disposal In plant practices that reduce, avoid or eliminate the generation of …

…with models usually embodying a classic process as follows: o Problem definition o Establish objectives: o Develop alternatives o Analysis of alternatives BIBLIOGRAPHY Pollution: Causes, Effects and Control. Roy M. Harrison Waste Not, want Not. WWF Hazardous Waste Management. Michael D. LaGrega, Phillip L. Buckingham Jeffrey C. Evans Bibliography BIBLIOGRAPHY Pollution: Causes, Effects and Control. Roy M. Harrison Waste Not, want Not. WWF Hazardous Waste Management. Michael D. LaGrega, Phillip L. Buckingham Jeffrey C. Evans