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    Hazardous waste is legally defined as any discarded solid or liquid that presents immediate or long-term risks to humans, animals, plants, or the environment. It requires special handling for detoxification or safe disposal. Hazardous waste contains carcinogenic, mutagenic, or teratogenic compounds above established limits, catches fire easily, is reactive or unstable enough to explode or release toxic fumes, or is capable of corroding metal containers. The EPA has a list of over 500 specific hazardous wastes. Businesses such as metal finishers and auto repair shops produce toxic waste by-products like heavy metals, solvents, and contaminated wastewater. Even household products like paints, pesticides, cleaning products

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    Hazardous waste is legally defined as any discarded solid or liquid that presents immediate or long-term risks to humans, animals, plants, or the environment. It requires special handling for detoxification or safe disposal. Hazardous waste contains carcinogenic, mutagenic, or teratogenic compounds above established limits, catches fire easily, is reactive or unstable enough to explode or release toxic fumes, or is capable of corroding metal containers. The EPA has a list of over 500 specific hazardous wastes. Businesses such as metal finishers and auto repair shops produce toxic waste by-products like heavy metals, solvents, and contaminated wastewater. Even household products like paints, pesticides, cleaning products

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    Hazardous waste is legally defined as any discarded solid or liquid that presents immediate or long-term risks to humans, animals, plants, or the environment. It requires special handling for detoxification or safe disposal. Hazardous waste contains carcinogenic, mutagenic, or teratogenic compounds above established limits, catches fire easily, is reactive or unstable enough to explode or release toxic fumes, or is capable of corroding metal containers. The EPA has a list of over 500 specific hazardous wastes. Businesses such as metal finishers and auto repair shops produce toxic waste by-products like heavy metals, solvents, and contaminated wastewater. Even household products like paints, pesticides, cleaning products

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    Hazardous waste is legally defined as any discarded solid or liquid that presents immediate or long-term risks to humans, animals, plants, or the environment. It requires special handling for detoxification or safe disposal. Hazardous waste contains carcinogenic, mutagenic, or teratogenic compounds above established limits, catches fire easily, is reactive or unstable enough to explode or release toxic fumes, or is capable of corroding metal containers. The EPA has a list of over 500 specific hazardous wastes. Businesses such as metal finishers and auto repair shops produce toxic waste by-products like heavy metals, solvents, and contaminated wastewater. Even household products like paints, pesticides, cleaning products

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    Hazardous Waste

    Hazardous waste presents immediate or long-term risks to humans, animals, plants, or the
    environment. It requires special handling for detoxification or safe disposal. In the U.S.,
    hazardous waste is legally defined as any discarded solid or liquid that

     contains one or more of 39 carcinogenic, mutagenic, or


    teratogenic compounds at levels that exceed established limits
    (includingmany solvents, pesticides, and paint strippers);
     catches fire easily (such as gasoline, paints, and solvents);
     is reactive or unstable enough to explode or release toxic fumes (including acids,
    bases, ammonia, and chlorine bleach); or
     is capable of corroding metal containers such as tanks, drums, and barrels (such as
    industrial cleaning agents and oven and drain cleaners).

    The EPA has a list of more than 500 specific hazardous wastes.

    Who's Responsible?
    Businesses such as metal finishers, gas stations, auto repair shops, dry cleaners, and photo
    developers produce many toxic waste products. These by-products include sulfuric acid,
    heavy metals found in batteries, and silver-bearing waste, which comes from photo finishers,
    printers, hospitals, schools, dentists, doctors, and veterinarians. Heavy metals, solvents, and
    contaminated wastewater result from paint manufacturing. Photo processing also creates
    organic chemicals, chromium compounds, phosphates, and ammonium compounds. Even
    cyanide can be a by-product, resulting from electroplating and other surface-treatment
    processes.

    If you think industry is the only source of hazardous waste, you may be surprised. There is
    hazardous household waste as well. For example, do you use any of the following items?*

    automotive products, such as gasoline, antifreeze, and batteries


    oil-based paints and thinners
    pool chemicals
    pesticides, herbicides, and other garden products
    household cleaning products

    * There are nontoxic alternatives to many of these products that, when disposed of, do not
    constitute hazardous waste. Check with a local "green consumer" organization or find out
    more in the related resources section of this exhibit.

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