Household hazardous waste management planning

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1991

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5665086· OSTI ID:5665086

Seeberger, D A

In 1985, Hennepin County entered into an agreement with Hennepin Energy Resource Co., Ltd. for the construction and operation of a 1000-ton-a-day waste-to-energy facility. In an effort to ensure that the new incinerator operates as safety as possible, Hennepin County is currently examining various methods of removing unacceptable materials from the waste stream; household hazardous wastes (HHW) are one stream being considered for diversion. As with any new program, a number of policy and design issues must be addressed prior to implementing a permanent HHW collection system. In an effort to address these questions and share information from its experiences, Hennepin County applied for, and was awarded a grant from the Urban Consortium Energy Task Force. The grant research plan detailed a three-phase approach for developing and implementing a HHW collection. In phase one, the County examined planning issues affecting program design and drafted a set of recommendations that included establishing a pilot collection program in Phase 2. This report describes the results from the first phase of the project grant, moving from a broad examination of what HHW is, to detailed findings from surveys and focus groups addressing county residents' needs and opinions about a specialized HHW disposal system. 30 refs., 3 tabs.

• Research Organization: Hennepin County Dept. of Environment and Energy, MN (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-78IR05106
• OSTI ID: 5665086
• Report Number(s): DOE/IR/05106-T157; ON: DE91013452
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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