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Currently, environmental regulations covering the industrial facilities that generate and manage 7.6 billion tons per year of industrial non-hazardous solid waste (ISW) vary from site-to-site, depending on the state, local and Native American tribal governments that oversee them.
To provide states with guidance and technical assistance in developing their regulations for industrial waste landfills, surface impoundments, waste piles and land application units, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has developed a voluntary "Guide for Industrial Waste Management" in both hard copy and CD-ROM formats.
Working in partnership with 12 state agencies and numerous industry and environmental representatives for more than two years, "we tried to recommend a baseline of protective management practices for industrial waste units that people can use when designing and operating their units," says Paul Cassidy, an environmental engineer with the EPA's Municipal and Industrial Solid Waste Division, Crystal City, Va. The document is a guide for individual states, industries and people...