Industrial Waste - Industrial waste is process waste associated with manufacturing.
- This waste usually is not classified as either municipal waste or hazardous waste by federal or state laws.
- Regulatory programs for managing industrial waste vary widely among state, tribal, and some local governments.
- Each year, industrial facilities generate and manage 7.6 billion tons of nonhazardous industrial waste in land application units.
Municipal Solid Waste - EPA definition
- includes wastes such as durable goods, nondurable goods, containers and packaging, food scraps, yard trimmings, and miscellaneous inorganic wastes from residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial sources.
- Examples of waste from these categories include appliances, automobile tires, newspapers, clothing, boxes, disposable tableware, office and classroom paper, wood pallets, and cafeteria wastes.
- Air pollution
- US EPA
- http://www.epa.gov/oar/oaqps/
- http://www.epa.gov/air/
- Water pollution
- US EPA
- http://www.epa.gov/water/
- Toxics Release Inventory
- Solid waste
- US EPA
- http://www.epa.gov/solidwaste/
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