Hazardous Recycling
Hazardous waste is waste that is dangerous or potentially harmful to our health or the environment. Hazardous wastes can be liquids, solids, gases or sludges.
Hazardous Ranking System
The principal screening tool used by EPA to evaluate risks to public health and the environment associated with abandoned or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites.
Hazardous Waste: A subset of solid wastes that pose substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment and meet any of the following criteria: it is specifically listed as a hazardous waste by EPA; ...
The glossary is compiled primarily for those scientists and others who now find themselves working in toxicology or requiring a knowledge of the subject, especially for hazard and risk assessment.
Leaf smoke may also contain hazardous chemicals such as carbon monoxide, which can bind with hemoglobin in the bloodstream and reduce the amount of oxygen in the blood and lungs.
National Priorities List: EPA's list of the most serious uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites identified for possible long-term remedial action under Superfund.
Hazardous Chemical
An EPA designation for any hazardous material requiring an MSDS under OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard. Such substances are capable of producing fires and explosions or ad- verse health effects like cancer and dermatitis.
Hazardous waste
the definition of hazardous waste in the UK has always been debated. Usually referred to as 'special waste', it has been controlled in the UK under the special waste regulations 1996.
Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAP's) - air pollutants, as defined by the Clean Air Act, that present a threat to human health and/or the environment. Pollutants include asbestos, beryllium, mercury, benzene, etc.
Hazard Communication Standard: An Occupational Safety and Health Act regulation that requires chemical manufacturers, suppliers, and importers to assess the hazards of the chemicals that they make, supply, or import, and to inform employers, ...
Hazardous waste: Waste that poses a risk to human health or the environment and requires special disposal techniques to make it harmless or less dangerous.
Hazardous Material: A product or material that has not been recycled or reclaimed, has a use to a user or facility.
Hazardous Waste - By-products of society that can pose a substantial or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly managed.
Hazardous Waste: solid, liquid, or gaseous substance which, because of its source or measurable characteristics, is classified under state or federal law as potentially dangerous and is subject to special handling, shipping, ...
Hazardous Waste - A product in a home (household hazardous waste) or business that is ignitable, corrosive, reactive or toxic (e.g. used motor oil, oil-based paint, auto batteries, gasoline, pesticides, etc).
Hazardous waste: Refuse that could present dangers through the contamination and pollution of the environment. It requires special disposal techniques to make it harmless or less dangerous.
Hazardous Substance Release and Health Effects Database (HazDat)
The scientific and administrative database system developed by ATSDR to manage data collection, retrieval, and analysis of site-specific information on hazardous substances, ...
Hazard-the biological effects produced by substances (i.e., toxicity). Hazards pose risks only if the exposure is sufficiently high.
Hazard: Risk, peril, jeopardy to which an individual is subjected.
Hazardous Waste: By-products of society that can pose a substantial or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly managed.
Hazardous substance
1. Any material that poses a threat to human health and/or the environment. Typical hazardous substances are toxic, corrosive, ignitable, explosive, or chemically reactive. 4.
Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) - Chemicals that cause serious health and environmental effects.
Hazardous waste
Waste substances which can pose a substantial or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly managed.
Hazardous Atmosphere: An atmosphere that may expose employees to the risk of death, incapacitation, impairment or acute illness from one or more of the following causes: Flammable gas, vapor, ...
Hazardous Air Pollutant (HAP): An air pollutant listed under section 112 (b) of the federal Clean Air Act as particularly hazardous to health. Emission sources of hazardous air pollutants are identified by U.S.
Hazard is "something with the potential to cause harm" according the HSE. Almost anything may be a hazard, but may or may not become a risk ...
hazard evaluation. A component of risk assessment that
involves gathering and evaluating data on the types of
health injury or disease (e.g., cancer) that may be produced ...
Hazardous Waste (HW)
1) A solid waste or combination of solid wastes which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may: A) Cause or contribute to an increase in mortality or to a serious, ...
H hazard assessment
Definition (english only)
Process designed to determine factors contributing to the possible adverse effects of a substance to which a human population or an environmental compartment could be exposed.
biohazard The health risk posed by the possible release of a pathogen into the environment.
system hazard A condition posing an actual damage or threat of damage to the physical properties of the waterworks or a consumer's water system.
Generic Hazard
Hazard which may be generally present throughout an operation or industry, but which may have widely different levels of risk, depending on specific site characteristics.
Hazard ...
HAZARDS AT SCHOOL -
BEYOND SPITBALLS, BULLIES AND CLIQUES
A Good Learning Environment Requires
Health and Safety in Schools ...
HAZARDOUS WASTES In order to provide for consumable products in today's society, industries often produce hazardous and dangerous byproducts which cannot be used and must be disposed of by being dumped in landfill sites.
A hazardous waste treatment, storage or disposal area that is located away from the generating site.
On-Site Facility
A hazardous waste treatment, storage or disposal area that is located on the generating site.
Non-hazardous, non-prescribed, solid waste materials ranging from municipal garbage to industrial waste.
Source separation ...
HAPs Hazardous air pollutants.
Hardness The sum of the divalent cation concentrations expressed as meq/L or mg calcium carbonate per liter [mg CaCO3/L].
HZW Hazardous waste.
INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommendation that promotes solid waste management through an integrated system that uses resource reduction, recycling, ...
Imminent Hazard- One that would likely result in unreasonable adverse effects on humans or the environment or risk unreasonable hazard to an endangered species during the time required for a pesticide registration cancellation proceeding.
household hazards - dangerous substances or conditions in human dwellings.
hydroelectric - relating to electric energy produced by moving water.
Household Hazardous Waste
Any product found in the home or garage that can be hazardous to the environment if not disposed of correctly.
Household Hazardous Waste- A product that is discarded from a home or a similar source that is either ignitable, corrosive, reactive, or toxic (e.g. used motor oil, oil-based paint, auto batteries, gasoline, pesticides, etc.).
Extremely Hazardous Substances
Any of 406 chemicals identified by EPA as toxic, and listed under SARA Title III. The list is subject to periodic revision.
Beryllium- An metal hazardous to human health when inhaled as an airborne pollutant. It is discharged by machine shops, ceramic and propellant plants, and foundries.
These sites are typically contaminated with hazardous waste. Redevelopment is complicated due to the environmental contamination. Building Envelope The exterior surface of a building's construction to include the walls, windows, roof and floor.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of certain inactive hazardous waste sites. The list is produced and updated periodically by the EPA. See "Superfund". Odor threshold The lowest concentration of a chemical that can be smelled.
Hotshot:a specialized firefighter who ventures in to hazardous areas and spends long hours battling blazes. Hot spot:an area beneath Earth's crust where magma currents rise.
Certain plants are able to extract hazardous substances such as arsenic, lead and uranium from soil and water. One example is alpine pennycress (Brassicaceae), a plant which naturally accumulates high levels of cadmium and zinc from the environment.
Poor sanitation systems, contaminated drinking water and unsafe disposal of waste and refuse also constitute hazards to human health.
Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites - The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) maintains a list of inactive hazardous waste disposal sites in New York State.
moral hazard: something that encourages people to behave irresponsibly or unethically.
tolerance levels the concentrations of toxic elements that, if exceeded, will cause stress, lowered resistance to disease, and other environmental hazards, and will eventually result in the death of the affected organism(s).
Persons or enterprises which produce less than 220 pounds of hazardous waste per month.
CERCLA An Act of Congress, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, which authorizes EPA to manage the cleanup of abandoned or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. Also known as Superfund.
A grouping of lands that have similar kinds of limitations and hazards. It provides information on the kind of conservation problem or limitation.
The four steps of a risk assessment are: hazard identification (Can this substance damage health?); dose-response assessment (What dose causes what effect?); exposure assessment (How and how much do people contact it?); ...
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) - Organic compounds that evaporate at room temperatures and are often hazardous to human health, causing poor indoor air quality. Sources of VOC's include solvents and paints.
BPA: Abbreviation for Bisphenol A, an organic compound found in many plastics that is suspected to be hazardous to humans.
Periods of enlarged algal growths that affect water quality. Algal blooms indicate potentially hazardous changes in the chemistry of water.
Aliquot
A measured portion of a sample taken for analysis. One or more aliquots make up a sample.
Wet air oxidation
a process that treats waste water containing high strength or hazardous organic chemicals by a combination of high temperature and pressure that creates highly reactive hydroxyl radicals ...
Safety: the condition of being reasonably free from danger and hazards that may cause accidents or disease.
 See also: Environment, Waste, Water, Air, Environmental
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