Special Waste definition

Special Waste means those substances as defined in the Illinois Environmental Protection Act, 415 ILCS 5/3.45, and further defined in Section 809.103 or 35 Illinois Administrative Code, Subtitle G, Ch.1.
Special Waste means any industrial process waste, pollution control waste or hazardous waste, except as determined pursuant to Section 22.9 of the Act and 35 Ill. Adm. Code 808.
Special Waste means solid waste that is not a hazardous waste regulated under chapter 23-20.3 and includes waste generated from energy conversion facilities; waste from crude oil and natural gas exploration and production; waste from mineral and ore mining, beneficiation, and extraction; and waste generated by surface coal mining operations. The term does not include municipal waste or industrial waste.

Examples of Special Waste in a sentence

  • Special Waste Collections This section concerns local government programs for managing materials that require special handling or that are banned from landfilling.

  • Waste treatment methods Disposal methods Dispose of in accordance with Local Authority regulations as special waste according to The Control of Special Waste Regulations 1996.

  • We have begun to segregate revenue associated with Special Waste (tires, construction, scrap metal, textiles) and internally report it as a subset of DOC tipping fees tob e t t e r h i g h l i g h t t i p f e e s f r o m “ e v e r y d a y ” m a.

  • The potential for a five-year prison sentence on indictment makes illegal dumping of Special Waste an arrestable offence.5 Trends in Environmental Sentencing in England and Wales.

  • Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act 1961.Control of Pollution (Special Waste) Regulations 1980 (as amended).


More Definitions of Special Waste

Special Waste means a non-hazardous industrial waste that may include a number of waste types which has physical or chemical characteristics, or both, that requires special handling at a waste disposal facility such as contaminated soil, raw animal manure, dead animals and any other material determined to be special waste;
Special Waste hazardous waste," "extremely hazardous substance," "regulated substance," "solid waste," "hazardous materials," or "toxic substances," under any Environmental Law; (ii) any material, waste or substance which is or contains: (A) petroleum, oil or a fraction thereof, (B) explosives, or (C) radioactive materials (including naturally occurring radioactive materials); and (iii) such other substances, materials, or wastes that are classified or regulated as hazardous or toxic under any applicable federal, state or local law or regulation. To the extent that the laws or regulations of any applicable state or local jurisdiction establish a meaning for any term defined herein through reference to federal Environmental Laws which is broader than the meaning under such federal Environmental Laws, such broader meaning shall apply.
Special Waste means contaminated soils, asbestos and other waste specified by Washington Waste Systems in the Special Waste Management Plan included in the Operations Plan as requiring special handling or disposal procedures.
Special Waste means waste or effluent, which is required pursuant to Applicable Laws to be collected in a special container for external disposal.
Special Waste means waste which requires special handling and treatment before it may be discharged into a plumbing system;
Special Waste means discarded solid waste that may require special handling or other solid waste that may pose a threat to public safety, human health, or the environment.
Special Waste means any state-only dangerous waste that is solid only (nonliquid, nonaqueous, nongaseous), that is: Corrosive waste (WAC 173-303-090 (6)(b)(ii)), toxic waste that has Category D toxicity (WAC 173-303-100(5)), PCB waste (WAC 173-303-9904 under State Sources), or persistent waste that is not EHW (WAC 173-303-100(6)). Any solid waste that is regulated by the United States EPA as hazardous waste cannot be a special waste.