A Short History of Regulated Waste From Afterthought to Forethought

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The 1976 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) promoted regulations around the safe and proper management of newly defined hazardous waste. As the regulations evolved, a waste hierarchy model emerged that summarized what the regulations were trying to accomplish — moving from most preferred management methods to those least preferred. The top of the inverted pyramid is: avoid and reduce waste followed by: reuse waste, recycle waste, recover energy, treat waste and lastly, dispose or landfill waste.

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