Hazardous Waste Materials Guide Archives

Why You Need a Hazmat Emergency Response Plan in Place

Hazmat emergency response plans are required by law for any company, business, or institution that works with hazardous materials. Operators and personnel at facilities that manage hazardous materials must know what to do and how to react in the event that an accident occurs.

Hazardous Drugs in Retail Pharmacy: What You Need to Know

Once expired, contaminated, or damaged, by law, all hazardous drugs in a pharmacy must be properly disposed of as hazardous waste. Types of hazardous drugs generated by a retail pharmacy can vary, but, in general, they contain active ingredients derived from plants, animals, or synthetic compounds manufactured through chemical synthesis or combined with other specific chemical ingredients.

Hazardous Waste Materials Guide: Poison

Poison classification – Class 6 – is one of 9 such classifications by the EPA. Poisons are regulated by other federal departments and agencies such as the DOT during transportation, USPS in shipping or mailing, and OSHA, where workplace safety matters.

Hazardous Waste Q&A: What is Toxic Waste?

What is toxic waste? The answer is not as obvious as it may seem at first thought. The terms “toxic waste” and “hazardous waste” are frequently used interchangeably to define waste material that poses a threat to public health and the environment, which is true to a large extent. Either type of waste material does indeed pose a threat.

A Guide to Low-Level Radioactive Waste

If your facility, company, or institution generates low-level radioactive waste, it must be disposed of properly by law. Low-level radioactive waste is considered any type of material directly contaminated through contact with neutron radiation in small concentrations. It may also include any type of low-level material exposure to neutron radiation.

Hazardous Waste Materials Guide: Flammable Liquids

Flammable liquids classification is defined as a Class 3 hazardous material. As one of 9 such hazardous material classifications by the EPA, flammable liquids and combustible liquids are also regulated by the DOT during transportation and OSHA where workplace safety matters.

Hazardous Waste Materials Guide: Oxidizers

Common oxidizers, as examples of Class 5 hazardous materials, are composed of any solids, liquids, or gasses that react with most organic material or reducing agents that promote combustion in other materials.

Hazardous Waste Materials Guide: Corrosive Liquids

In the pantheon of hazardous waste materials, Class 8 corrosive liquids and corrosive waste stand out from other hazardous materials because of one significant characteristic property—Class 8 corrosive materials are those that cause full thickness destruction of human skin at the point of contact within a specific time period.

Hazardous Waste Guide: Miscellaneous Hazardous Material

It may seem fairly obvious from its classification that Class 9 Hazardous Materials of Dangerous Goods are those miscellaneous hazardous materials without a specific definition of the potential hazard, the keyword here being ‘potential.

Hazardous Waste Materials Guide: Flammable Solids

Like any hazardous waste material, flammable solids have the potential to cause danger if not properly managed. Defined as any solid that begins the process of combustion when exposed to an igniter, Class 4 materials must be carefully monitored, stored and disposed of.