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 | Air Emissions (RCRA) |
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| Batteries |
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| Best Demonstrated Available Technology (BDAT) |
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| Bevill Amendment |
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| Boilers |
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| Burning |
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| Buy Recycled |
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| Characteristic Wastes |
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| Chemicals (RCRA) |
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| Cleanup |
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| Cleanup (RCRA) |
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| Closure (Hazardous Waste) |
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| Combustion |
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| Combustion of Hazardous Waste |
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| Compliance |
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| Composting |
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| Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generators (CESQG) |
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| Construction and Demolition Waste |
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| Construction and Demolition Wastes |
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| Containers |
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| Containment Buildings |
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| Corrective Action (RCRA) |
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| Corrosive Wastes |
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| Crude Oil |
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| Definition of Solid Waste |
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| Delisting Petitions |
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| Disposal |
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| Drip Pads |
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| Educational Materials |
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| Enforcement (RCRA) |
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| EPA Forms |
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| Exclusions (RCRA) |
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| Exports |
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| F-wastes |
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| Financial Assurance (hazardous waste) |
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| Financial Assurance (nonhazardous waste) |
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| Gas |
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| Generators |
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| Grants (hazardous Waste) |
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| Grants (municipal solid waste) |
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| Groundwater Monitoring |
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| Hazardous Waste |
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| Hazardous waste data |
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| Hazardous Waste Identification |
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| Hazardous Waste Recycling |
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| Household Hazardous Waste |
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| Identification of Hazardous Waste |
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| Imports |
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| Incineration |
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| Incinerators |
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| Industrial Furnaces |
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| Industrial Wastes |
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| Jobs Through Recycling Program |
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| K-wastes |
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| Land Disposal Restrictions |
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| Land Disposal Units |
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| Land Treatment Units |
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| Landfills |
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| Large Quantity Generators (LQG) |
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| Legislation (hazardous waste) |
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| Liability (Hazardous Waste) |
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| Listing Hazardous Waste |
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| Manifest |
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| Medical Waste |
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| Mercury Wastes |
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| Military Munitions |
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| Mining Waste |
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| Miscellaneous Units |
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| Mixed Waste (radioactive waste) |
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| Municipal Solid Waste |
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| Native American - Tribes |
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| Native Americans - Tribes |
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| Natural Gas |
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| Nonhazardous Waste |
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| Oil |
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| Oil Filters |
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| P-wastes |
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| PCBs |
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| Permits and Permitting |
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| Petitions |
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| Petroleum Refining Wastes |
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| Polychorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) |
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| Post-closure (hazardous waste) |
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| Procurement |
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| Public Participation |
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| Radioactive Mixed Waste |
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| Reactive Wastes |
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| Recycling |
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 | Reducing Waste |
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| 09/19/2011 | Final Report of the Dialogue on Sustainable Financing of Recycling of Packaging at the Municipal Level | Publication | |
| | Description: This report constitutes the work product of The Dialogue on Sustainable Financing of Recycling of Packaging at the Municipal Level. At the request of several state and local governments, EPA convened this multistakeholder initiative in summer 2010 to address financing challenges confronting recycling of packaging waste. This dialogue represented a significant opportunity to identify ways to reduce packaging waste, increase recycling, and reduce the overall impact of packaging materials on the environment. While the report is a result of an EPA-convened dialogue, the report is a work product of the dialogue participants, and not of EPA. Reference to any specific company or commercial products, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation or favoring by the United States Government. |
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| 10/01/2010 | A Green Guide for Waste Management and Recycling During Special Events at National Capital Region Parks | Publication | |
| | Description: This document, developed by EPA and the National Park Service, can help private event organizers and park managers successfully plan waste reduction and recycling programs for special events held at national parks. The guide walks organizers and managers through each step, beginning with pre-event planning, moving on to day-of-event tips, and concluding with post-event evaluation. Following these guidelines can make events more environmentally friendly, ultimately helping preserve the beauty and sustainability of the nation’s park system. |
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| 10/01/2009 | Feeding Animals - The Business Solution to Food Scraps | Publication | |
| | Description: This success story discusses New Jersey’s Rutgers University, which is home to the third largest student dining operation in the country with dining facilities that serve over 3.3 million meals and cater more than 5,000 events each year. Rutgers also boasts one of the best and oldest food recovery programs in the country, beginning in the 1960s, that diverts food scraps to a local farm for use as animal feed. |
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| 10/01/2009 | Fine Dining Returns to the Earth | Publication | |
| | Description: This success story discusses the food waste management program of the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The hotel established a kitchen scraps recycling program to increase the recovery rate of its recycling program with local composter Ned Foley of the farm Two Particular Acres. |
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| 10/01/2009 | Rock and Wrap It Up! Helps Fight Hunger | Publication | |
| | Description: This success story discusses the Rock and Wrap It Up! (RWU) program, which is a national anti-poverty think tank that arranges the collection and local donation of leftover food and other basic necessities. |
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| 10/01/2008 | WasteWise Communities | Publication | |
| | Description: This fact sheet discusses WasteWise Communities, a campaign in support of local governments to reduce residential municipal solid waste and its impact on climate change. It also provides some proven success stories of various programs implemented by WasteWise partners around the country. |
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| 04/01/2008 | Border Scrap Tire Project Action Plans | Publication | |
| | Description: This document describes scrap tire projects that are occurring throughout the United States-Mexico border region, based on the four principles of scrap tire generation, pile prevention, pile cleanup, and management participation. |
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| 02/01/2007 | Tools to Reduce Waste in Schools | Publication | |
| | Description: This document helps schools and school districts reduce the amount of waste that they generate. It discusses how to start a waste reduction program or expand an existing one. The guide will also describe how a waste reduction program can benefit schools, communities, and the environment by reducing, reusing, and recycling waste. |
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| 05/01/2006 | WasteWise Endorser Program | Publication | |
| | Description: This document describes the WasteWise Endorser Program, which is designed to help spread the WasteWise message to more organizations. Endorsers are state and local government agencies, trade associations, nonprofit organizations, and businesses that help their members, constituents, or customers realize that reducing solid waste makes good business sense. |
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| 01/01/2006 | Pack a Waste-Free Lunch (Poster) | Publication | |
| | Description: This poster was designed to help students learn how to reduce, reuse, and recycle items in their school lunches. The poster can be displayed in classrooms and throughout schools to get students interested in waste-free lunches and to learn how to organize a Waste-Free Lunch Day. |
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| 07/06/2004 | RECYCLABILITY OF PLASTIC VERSUS GLASS | Memo | |
| | Description: Containers not required to be made of specific materials. Manufacturers may choose materials based on their weight, safety, and design. Many types of plastic can be recycled. HDPE and PET are the most common type of plastic to be recycled. EPA encourages recycling of glass, metal, plastic beverage containers, newspapers, corrugated cardboard, and other materials. Local regulations may require recycling of certain materials. |
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| 06/24/2004 | RECYCLING WASTE MATERIALS | Memo | |
| | Description: Recycling by individual government employees is not required. Executive Order 13101 requires that waste prevention and recycling be incorporated into agency operations and disposal viewed as a last resort. Section 705 directs agencies to initiate a program promoting cost-effective waste prevention and recycling of reusable materials, designate a recycling coordinator for each facility or installation, and consider cooperative ventures to promote recycling and waste reduction. RCRA has design and management standards for municipal solid waste landfills to ensure household hazardous waste is safely contained. Discusses the Resource Conservation Challenge. |
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| 11/19/2002 | WASTE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING IN THE UNITED STATES | Memo | |
| | Description: Handling trash is primarily the responsibility of state and local governments. EPA does not have the legal authority to require recycling or waste prevention. EPA relies on voluntary approaches to inspire recycling. Puzzled About Recycling’s Value? Look Beyond the Bin (EPA530-K-98-008) explains recycling’s benefits, including the conservation of natural resources, the decrease of greenhouse gas emissions, and the expansion of the U.S. job market. The federal government tries to buy items that are made from recycled materials. |
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| 11/04/2002 | REDUCTION, RECYCLING, AND INTERSTATE TRANSPORT OF SOLID WASTE | Memo | |
| | Description: EPA promotes waste recycling and reduction, especially through the Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC). Waste should be safely managed wherever it is sent. |
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| 09/12/2002 | THE BENEFITS OF RECYCLING | Memo | |
| | Description: The benefits of recycling include conserving natural resources, decreasing emissions of greenhouse gases, and protecting U.S. jobs. The Consumer’s Handbook for Reducing Solid Waste contains creative ways to recycle. |
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| 06/01/2001 | Electronics: A New Opportunity for Waste Prevention, Reuse, and Recycling | Publication | |
| | Description: This fact sheet provides information on ways you can reduce the environmental impact of electronic use and disposal through reuse, donation, recycling, and buying greener electronic products. |
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| 01/01/1994 | Reusable News (Winter 1994) | Publication | |
| | Description: This issue of Reusable News focuses on EPA's WasteWise Program for reducing business solid waste. |
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| 11/01/1993 | Business Guide for Reducing Solid Waste | Publication | |
| | Description: This document offers step-by-step instructions designed to assist medium and large businesses, governments, and other organizations in establishing a waste reduction program. It presents an overview on developing and implementing a waste reduction program and provides worksheets to help the waste reduction team conduct a waste assessment and devise a program tailored to its company's specific goals. Appendices include waste reduction ideas, regional EPA and state waste reduction program contacts, glossary, volume-to-weight conversion table, and a list of common recyclable materials. |
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| 02/15/1990 | Environmental Fact Sheet: The Facts on Degradable Plastics | Publication | |
| | Description: Explains EPA's Report to Congress on methods to manage and control plastic wastes. Degradable plastics are engineered by photodegradation and biodegradation. Discusses how degradable plastics fit into solid waste solutions of reducing waste, landfilling, recycling, and incineration. |
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| Siting (waste facilities) |
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| Small Quantity Generators (SQG) |
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| Solid Waste |
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| Solvents |
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| Source Reduction |
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| Special Wastes |
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| State Programs (RCRA) |
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| Storage |
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| Surface Impoundments |
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| Tanks |
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| Test Methods |
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| Toxicity Characteristic |
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| Transporters |
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| Treatment |
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| TSDFs |
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| U-wastes |
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| Underground Storage Tanks (UST) |
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| Universal Waste |
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| Used Oil |
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| Variances |
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| Waste Determinations for Combusted Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials |
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| Waste Minimization |
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| Waste Piles |
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| Waste Reduction |
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| Wood Preserving Wastes |
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