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  2. List of waste disposal incidents - Wikipedia

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    2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill: acid mine waste spill 2015 United States Gold mine at Kingston, Queensland: toxic waste Australia Lake Karachay: radioactive waste dump site Russia Love Canal: toxic waste dump United States Māpua contaminated site: toxic waste 1932-88 New Zealand Martin County sludge spill: water pollution 2000 United ...

  3. Hazardous waste in the United States - Wikipedia

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    "In terms of hazardous waste, a landfill is defined as a disposal facility or part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed in or on land and which is not a pile, a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an underground injection well, a salt dome formation, a salt bed formation, an underground mine, a cave, or a corrective action ...

  4. Hazardous waste - Wikipedia

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    "In terms of hazardous waste, a landfill is defined as a disposal facility or part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed or on land and which is not a pile, a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an underground injection well, a salt dome formation, a salt bed formation, an underground mine, a cave, or a corrective action ...

  5. Household hazardous waste - Wikipedia

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    The most extensive overview of this topic including history, policy and technical issues is contained in the 2018 book Handbook on Household Hazardous Waste (2nd Ed.), Amy Cabaniss, Editor. [5] An additional HHW overview resource is in Chapter 10 of the Handbook of Solid Waste Management, George Tchobanoglous and Frank Kreith, Editors. [6]

  6. Toxic waste from world’s deadliest industrial disaster taken ...

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    A convoy of trucks took away 337 metric tonnes of hazardous waste from the site of the Bhopal gas tragedy, 40 years after what is regarded as the world’s worst industrial disaster. The trucks ...

  7. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act - Wikipedia

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    Because RCRA requires controls on hazardous waste generators (i.e., sites that generate hazardous waste), transporters, and treatment, storage and disposal facilities (i.e., facilities that ultimately treat/dispose of or recycle the hazardous waste), the overall regulatory framework has become known as the "cradle to grave" system.