Many types of commercial and industrial processes within Wisconsin produce hazardous wastes. When waste minimization is not feasible, methods exist for the recycling of most of these materials. Recycling hazardous waste by recovering potentially useful materials or energy, by re-using those wastes, or reclaiming the wastes back to the original form makes good sense from an environmental and often a cost standpoint.
Recycling includes the recovery of energy from hazardous waste.
Beneficial use or reuse means the use or reuse of hazardous waste as an ingredient or feedstock in production processes. It includes using hazardous waste as a substitute for raw material in processes that usually use raw materials as feedstocks, or using or reusing hazardous waste as a substitute for commercial chemical products. This item does not include burning, or the legitimate recovery or reclamation of a hazardous waste. This item does include burning of hazardous waste for energy recovery in boilers or industrial furnaces designed for this purpose. For the purpose of energy recovery , hazardous waste may be burned in a boiler or an industrial furnace , both of which are enclosed devices using controlled flame combustion.