Many business and industries do. This course provides an overview of the regulations to give you a basic understanding of your responsibilities. It can be used in conjunction with the actual regulations to give you a complete description of the hazardous waste management requirements. All of the hazardous waste regulations are found in Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 260 through 299. This course explains the federal requirements for hazardous waste management.
Many states have additional, more stringent requirements for managing hazardous waste.
Consult with your state hazardous waste agency to determine if additional requirements apply to you. RCRA, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, is the federal hazardous waste law. RCRA required the EPA to enact regulations to control and manage hazardous wastes that are generated by industry. However, the SWDA did not address the management of hazardous waste. The RCRA law required EPA to enact regulations that would address the goals listed above and provide a set of requirements for business and industry.