Toxic and Hazardous Wastes

Waste that may contain toxic materials usually generated from industrial, hospital, some types of household wastes

TYPES OF TOXIC AND HAZARDOUS WASTE ( Listed Hazardous Waste)

This list consists of waste coming from common manufacturing and industrial processes.

This list comprises wastes coming from specific industries like in petroleum refining or pesticide manufacturing that produce sludges and wastewaters from treatment and production processes

This type of wastes can cause serious illness but if the dose increased it becomes fatal to human

This list includes specific commercial chemical products in unused form. Examples of these are the pesticides and some pharmaceutical products that become hazardous waste when discarded.

CHARACTERISTICS OF HAZARDOUS WASTES

SOURCES OF HAZARDOUS WASTE

Examples of these are pesticides, cleaning products, automotive products, painting supplies, and other flammable and nonflammable products

These are the chemicals, infectious agents, and radioactive materials

These include heavy metals from plating operations, toxic chemicals, solvents, and residues from the manufacture of pesticides

Included are the spent nuclear fuel and tailings from uranium processing

These are toxic chemicals left over from mining operations including acids and heavy metals

Emissions especially chemicals coming from primary industries and the secondary waste treatment plants destroy the ozone, which then warms the Earth and causes hazardous wastes to impact the Earth in new ways, wrecking now more-fragile ecosystems

HAZARDOUS WASTE SYMBOLS

Substance or materials which is intended to function by explosion. Even if not aimed to function by explosion but can function in similar manner once it undergoes chemical reaction

Any liquid having a flash point of not more than 60degC, closed-cup test, or 65.6degC, open-cup test

Wetted explosives that when dry are explosives; self-reactive materials that are liable to undergo, at normal or elevated temperatures,

A material that may, generally by yielding oxygen, cause or enhance the combustion of other materials.

A substance which, if it is inhaled or ingested or if it penetrates the skin, may involve serious acute or chronic health risks including carcinogenicity, teratogenicity, and mutagenicity on human and other life forms.

A liquid or solid that causes visible destruction or irreversible alterations in human skin tissue at the site of contact, or a liquid that has a severe corrosion rate on steel or aluminum

Containing a viable microorganism (or its toxin) which is known or suspected to cause disease in humans or animals

Must identify if their waste is hazardous and must oversee the ultimate fate of the waste. Should guarantee and fully document that the hazardous waste produced is correctly identified, managed, and treated before recycling or disposed

Can transport the waste to a facility that can recycle, treat, store or dispose of the waste. Regulations on public roads, highways, rails and waterways should be strictly followed during the transport of hazardous waste