Hazardous Waste Law and Legal Definition
Hazardous Waste is defined as a solid waste, or combination of solid wastes, which due to its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness, or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or managed otherwise. Agricultural Excess & Surplus Ins. Co. v. A.B.D. Tank & Pump Co., 878 F. Supp. 1091, 1096 (N.D. Ill. 1995)
Legal Definition list
Related Legal Terms
- Agricultural Solid Waste
- Ameliorative Waste
- Arduous of Hazardous Positions [Civil Service Regulations]
- Asbestos-Containing Waste Materials [National Emission Standard for Asbestos]
- Banned Hazardous Substance
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal
- Cargo Associated Wastes [Maritime Law]
- Commissive Waste
- Corrosion Expert [Hazardous Waste Management]
- Double Waste
