Hazardous Waste Identification

Course Description:

Can you determine whether a given waste is a hazardous waste regulated by EPA under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)?  This course covers a very organized approach to answering just that question, starting with determining whether your waste is considered a "solid waste" under the RCRA regulations and moving on to determining if it fits one of the RCRA requirements for being a hazardous waste.

This course is intended primarily for environmental, civil, and chemical engineers.  Someone completing this course will gain knowledge about procedures for determining whether a given waste is a RCRA hazardous waste

Learning Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• The fundamentals of the hazardous waste identification process
• The definition of the term “solid waste” as used by RCRA
• The definition of hazardous waste
• How to identify listed hazardous wastes
• How to identify characteristic hazardous wastes
• Interpretation of the mixture and derived-from rules
• Interpretation of the contained-in policy