The Environment Agency has warned that waste operators may be ‘mismanaging’ some hazardous materials, as out of date information is being used to classify the waste. And, it claims that this ...

The way hazardous chemical waste is assessed and classified is changing significantly. From this week (June 1), new European rules governing the classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals – ...

China and the European Union (EU) recently finalized very different rules for the classification and regulation of black mass, a material resulting from the initial step of processing end-of-life ...

Environmental groups have long pushed for coal ash, a by-product of coal burning energy production that contains toxic contaminants, to be classified as a hazardous material. While the EPA announced ...

COHOES — The state Department of Environmental Conservation has told the Norlite incinerator/aggregate plant that its incinerator dust will now be classified as hazardous waste. The company had ...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy announced the agency will now consider coal ash on the same level as household waste as opposed to hazardous waste. Household ...

New Mexico is first in the nation to classify PFAS firefighting foam as hazardous waste, stepping up cleanup at bases and airports.