EPA Bars Untreated Waste From Landfills
The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday that it is putting landfills off limits to millions of gallons of untreated hazardous waste produced each year by a wide range of industrial processes.
“Today’s action will require that nearly a third of all hazardous waste be detoxified or restricted in some way when disposed of on land,” said J. Winston Porter, assistant EPA administrator for solid waste and emergency response.
Porter said the action, mandated by a 1984 law, is expected to cost industry up to $950 million a year. The new rules are effective immediately and cover about 129 million gallons of waste from electroplating and about 83 million gallons of furnace dust produced by mills that recycle scrap metals.
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