Hazardous Waste in AmericaThe statistics on hazardous chemical waste are staggering. Over 85 billion pounds of waste are generated in the United States every year. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that at least 90% of these toxic substances are disposed of improperly and unsafely. There are more than 50,000 dump sites for hazardous wastes in the country, involving every state in the union, and only a few of these sites are monitored to any degree. In Hazardous Waste in America three experts have gone behind the statistics and scare stories to investigate the origins of this “toxic time bomb.” They explain not only what the wastes are, but why our economy produces them, what properties make them dangerous and how they have come to threaten our lives and our environment. -- inside cover (flap text) |
Contents
The Problem of Hazardous | 27 |
Introduction to Case Studies | 43 |
Dumping and Groundwater | 69 |
Copyright | |
11 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acid administration agency Allied Chem aquifer bill Blvd Browning-Ferris carcinogenic Carracino Chem Chemical Control chemical wastes chlorinated City Dump City Ldfl clean Clean Water Act cleanup Committee Congress contaminated Corp costs Coun damage disposal of hazardous drinking water drums environment Environmental EPA's facilities federal fund groundwater Hardeman County hazardous waste hazardous waste disposal hazardous waste problem heavy metals Hooker House Houston hydrocarbons illegal dumping incineration industrial wastes investigation Jersey Lake landfill Ldfl legislation liability Love Canal major manufacture materials Mill million Niagara Falls Oklahoma City Olin Corp operations organic PCBS percent pesticide Plant Box pollution Pond potential Ppty Prod production RCRA recovery recycling regulations Sanit Senate sludge soil Solid Waste storage Subcommittee superfund tion toxic chemicals toxic wastes Velsicol Waste Disp waste oil waste streams