Hazardous or toxic waste definition

Hazardous or toxic waste means any material that meets the definition of hazardous waste under 40 C.F.R.261 and AS 46.03.900, such as poisons, pesticides, acids, batteries, caustics, infectious or pathological wastes, radioactive materials, explosives of highly flammable materials, oil and petroleum products.
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Hazardous or toxic waste means any material, waste, chemical, compound, substance, mixture, or byproduct that is identified, defined, designated, listed, restricted or otherwise regulated under Applicable Laws as "hazardous constituent," "hazardous substance," "hazardous waste constituent," "infectious waste," "medical waste," "bio-hazardous waste," "extremely hazardous waste," pollutant," "toxic pollutant," "chemical constituent," "solid waste," or "contaminant," or any other formulation intended to classify substances by reason of properties that are deleterious to the environment, natural resources or public health or safety including without limitation, ignitability, infectiousness, corrosiveness, radioactivity, carcinogenicity, toxicity, and reproductive toxicity. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Hazardous or Toxic Waste shall include any form of natural gas, as well as any petroleum products or any fraction thereof, and any substance that, due to its characteristics or interaction with one or more other materials, wastes, chemicals, compounds, substances, mixtures, or by products, damages or threatens to damage the environment, natural resources, or public health or safety, or is required by any law or public entity to be remediated, including remediations which such law or public entity requires in order for real property to be put to any lawful purpose.
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Hazardous or toxic waste means any solid, liquid, or gaseous product classified as a hazardous or toxic waste under any federal, state, or local laws, rules, regulations, or ordinances, and all gas and oil products and by-products of every kind or nature. JMAR shall be solely liable and responsible for the proper clean-up and removal of all hazardous or toxic waste used, handled, stored, or spilled by JMAR or any director, officer, agent, employee, subcontractor, independent contractor or representative of JMAR. JMAR shall pay all fees, costs, expenses and fines necessary to clean-up or remediate any hazardous or toxic waste for which JMAR is liable under this paragraph in strict accordance with all federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations at JMAR's sole cost and expense. JMAR shall not be liable for any hazardous or toxic waste used, handled, stored or spilled by the District or its directors, officers, employees or contractors. In the event any third party, including any regulatory agency, brings any claim or cause of action against the District to clean-up or remediate any hazardous or toxic waste for which JMAR is liable under this section, JMAR shall also indemnify and hold harmless the District and its directors, officers, agents, and employees from all claims, actions, losses, costs, fees, expenses, fines, and penalties, of whatever type or nature, including all costs of defense and attorneys fees, upon written demand for indemnity from the District. In the event any third party, including any regulatory agency, brings any claim or cause of action against JMAR to clean-up or remediate any hazardous or toxic waste for which District is liable under this section, District shall also indemnify and hold harmless JMAR and its directors, officers, agents, and employees from all claims, actions, losses, costs, fees, expenses, fines, and penalties, of whatever type or nature, including all costs of defense and attorneys fees, upon written demand for indemnity from JMAR.
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Examples of Hazardous or toxic waste in a sentence

  • Hazardous or toxic waste means any substance, waste pollutant or contaminant now or hereafter included within such terms under any federal, state or local statute, ordinance, code, rule or regulation now existing or hereinafter enacted or amended.

  • Hazardous or toxic waste means any substance, waste, pollutant or contaminant now or hereafter included within such terms under any federal, state or local statute, ordinance, code, rule or regulation now existing or hereinafter enacted or amended.

  • When an employee is chaperoning students on an off-site activity, she or he has an obligation to inform the students that Lake Tech’s Drug and Alcohol policy is still in effect.

  • Hazardous or toxic waste manifest must be reviewed, signed, and approved by the Navy before the Contractor may ship waste.

  • Hazardous or toxic waste must be disposed of in accordance with federal and state laws and local ordinances.

  • Hazardous or toxic waste receiving, treatment or disposal facilities are prohibited.

  • Environmental risks • Hazardous or toxic waste and salts from industry and salt leaching processes in agriculture can reduce the quality of the wastewater and risk public health and creates negative effects on the environment.

  • Hazardous or toxic waste must be separated from construction and domestic waste.

  • Prohibited uses and structures.(1) Biohazardous, hazardous, or toxic waste incineration.(2) Group homes.(3) Hazardous or toxic waste storage.(4) Theater for live stage productions.(5) Uses not conforming to industrial performance standards.

  • Hazardous or toxic waste must be stored in sealed containers, which are constructed of suitable materials to prevent leakage and corrosion, and which are labeled in accordance with applicable Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) requirements and all other applicable federal, state, or local requirements.


More Definitions of Hazardous or toxic waste

Hazardous or toxic waste means any
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Hazardous or toxic waste means any material that meets the definition of 40 C.F.R. 261
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Hazardous or toxic waste means any waste material or mixture of wastes which is toxic, corrosive, flammable, explosive, an irritant, a strong sensitizer, and which generates pressure through decomposition, heat or other means, if such a waste or mixture of wastes may cause substantial personal injury, serious illness or harm to humans, domestic animals, or wildlife, during, or as an approximate result of, any disposal of such wastes or mixtures of wastes as defined in Section 25117 of the California Health and Safety Code, which is not legally disposable at a Class III landfill.
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Related to Hazardous or toxic waste

  • Hazardous Waste means any substance or material regulated or designated as such pursuant to any Environmental Law, including without limitation, pollutants, contaminants, flammable substances and materials, explosives, radioactive materials, oil, petroleum and petroleum products, chemical liquids and solids, polychlorinated biphenyls, asbestos, toxic substances, and similar substances and materials.

  • Hazardous Substances means any chemical, pollutant, waste or substance that is (a) listed, classified or regulated under any Environmental Law as hazardous substance, toxic substance, pollutant, contaminant or oil or (b) any petroleum product or by-product, asbestos containing material, polychlorinated biphenyls or radioactive material.

  • Hazardous Substance means any substance that is: (i) listed, classified or regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law; (ii) any petroleum product or by-product, asbestos-containing material, lead-containing paint or plumbing, polychlorinated biphenyls, radioactive materials or radon; or (iii) any other substance which is the subject of regulatory action by any Governmental Entity pursuant to any Environmental Law.

  • toxic a “pollutant”, a “contaminant”, or words of similar meaning and regulatory effect pursuant to any Environmental Law and also including any petroleum product or by-product, asbestos-containing material, lead-containing paint, mold, polychlorinated biphenyls or radioactive materials.

  • Contaminant means any material, substance or waste that is classified, regulated or otherwise characterized under any Environmental Law as hazardous, toxic, a contaminant or a pollutant or by other words of similar meaning or regulatory effect, including any petroleum or petroleum-derived substance or waste, asbestos and polychlorinated biphenyls.

  • Pollutant means any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, refuse, oil, grease, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, medical wastes, radioactive substance (except those regulated under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. §§ 2011 et seq.)), thermal waste, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, industrial, municipal, agricultural, and construction waste or runoff, or other residue discharged directly or indirectly to the land, ground waters or surface waters of the State, or to a domestic treatment works. “Pollutant” includes both hazardous and nonhazardous pollutants.

  • Hazardous Materials means all explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.

  • Hazardous Material means any substance, material or waste that is classified, regulated or otherwise characterized under any Environmental Law as hazardous, toxic, a contaminant or a pollutant or by other words of similar meaning or regulatory effect, including petroleum or any fraction thereof, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls and radioactive substances.