Treatment and destruction of hazardous chemical wastes
This document discusses the issue of thermal incineration as it applies to two particular topics which are of interest. One topic is the treatment of mixed radioactive and hazardous waste, and the other topic, as was mentioned before, is the destruction of chemical munitions. The driving force that really affects the choice of treatment technology for both of these issues is a regulatory one. Specifically, in 1990, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will complete the final phase of the Land Disposal Restriction (LDR) ban on the planned disposal of all untreated hazardous waste. In fact, EPA has been phasing in this regulation since 1986. Hazardous waste already banned from land disposal ranges from dioxins to heavy metals to PCBs and to halogenated organic compounds. And eventually, all waste designated by EPA as hazardous will be banned, and this amounts to about 450 materials, including all ignitable compounds, corrosives, reactives, and toxics.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE/DP
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 6856357
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-102785; CONF-8902178-1; ON: DE90010688
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Treatment and destruction of hazardous chemical wastes, Erice (Italy), 8 Feb 1989
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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