The chief executive of Waste Management runs a company worth tens of billions of dollars, yet he has spent nights riding garbage trucks and sitting through 1 a.m. safety briefings to understand what ...

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The Section develops the IAEA Safety Standards regarding radioactive waste management, decommissioning, remediation and environmental releases. It also provides the Secretariat for the Joint ...

Purdue University is committed to preserving a balance between protecting the health of people and the environment, while accommodating increasingly sophisticated and productive research operations.

Most colleges and universities generate hazardous waste and therefore are regulated as hazardous waste generators. Chemical use in laboratories results in the need for disposal of mixed solvents, ...

As of July 3, 2023, the process for waste pickup requests transitioned to an online platform: Environmental Health and Safety Assistant (EHSA). EHSA is used to submit waste for chemical, biological, ...

Safety issues at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant meant a slowdown in shipments of nuclear waste accepted for disposal at the underground repository last month. There were only three shipments accepted ...

According to the EPA, a hazardous waste is either listed in one of the several lists prepared by the EPA, or, it exhibits one or more of the following characteristics: ignitable, reactive, corrosive, ...