Hazardous Waste Treatment Law and Legal Definition
In relation to the Environmental Law, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act defines treatment as any method, process, or technique, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical or biological character or composition of any hazardous waste in order to neutralize such waste or to render such waste non-hazardous, safer for transport, amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume. [United States v. Great Lakes Castings Corp., 1994 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5745, 12-13 (W.D. Mich. Mar. 23, 1994)].
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]
- Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
- Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
- Child Maltreatment
