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Book Description

Hazardous Waste Management: Reducing the Risk is the first book to study and rate toxic waste disposal sites and to provide step-by-step guidelines for evaluation, decision, and action. The innovative and practical ranking system shows how to rate facilities on the basis of site, management, and technology.

Contents

Table of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgments
About CEP
Abbreviations
CEP Findings
 
Chapter 1. Busting the Shell Game: Where CEP Looked and What CEP Found
 
Chapter 2. Recommendations: A Starting Point for Individual Perspectives
-Problems and Solutions
 
Chapter 3. Setting The Stage: Some Technical and Legal Background
 
Chapter 4. A New Industry: Commercial Hazardous Waste Management
 
Chapter 5. Hazardous Waste Management: Strategies and Technologies
 
Chapter 6. How To Choose: Tools for Evaluating Facilities
-Case Studies
 
Chapter 7. The Big Eight: Corporate Comparisons
 
Chapter 8. Picking A Winner: CEP Comparative Facility Evaluation Method
 
Chapter 9. Report Cards: Ten Hazardous Waste Management Facilities
 
Chapter 10. Information Management: Ranking the Regulators
 
Appendix A: Evaluating a Hazardous Waste Facility
Appendix B: Federal Hazardous Waste Databases
Notes
Glossary
Index