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.

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

  • 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 receiving, treatment or disposal facilities are prohibited.

  • Hazardous or toxic waste including but not limited to solvents, paints, and petroleum based products shall 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, tribal, or local requirements.

  • 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.


More Definitions of Hazardous or toxic waste

Hazardous or toxic waste means any
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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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Hazardous or toxic waste means any material that meets the definition of 40 C.F.R. 261
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Related to Hazardous or toxic waste

  • Hazardous Wastes means all waste materials subject to regulation under CERCLA, RCRA or applicable state law, and any other applicable Federal and state laws now in force or hereafter enacted relating to hazardous waste disposal.

  • Toxic Substance includes but is not limited to asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and lead-based paints.

  • toxic substances as defined by the Toxic Substances Control Act, as amended from time to time (“TSCA”), (4) “hazardous materials” as defined by the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, as amended from time to time (“HMTA”), (5) asbestos, oil or other petroleum products, radioactive materials, urea formaldehyde foam insulation, radon gas and transformers or other equipment that contains dielectric fluid containing polychlorinated biphenyls and (6) any substance whose presence is detrimental or hazardous to health or the environment, including, without limitation, microbial or fungal matter or mold, or is otherwise regulated by federal, state and local environmental laws (including, without limitation, RCRA, CERCLA, TSCA, HMTA), rules, regulations and orders, regulating, relating to or imposing liability or standards of conduct concerning any Hazardous Materials or environmental, health or safety compliance (collectively, “Environmental Requirements”). As used in this Contract: “Release” means spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping or disposing.

  • toxic waste or "toxic substance" under any provision of Environmental Law and shall also include, without limitation, petroleum, petroleum products, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls and radioactive materials;

  • Hazardous Waste means the substances regulated as such pursuant to any Environmental Law.

  • Hazardous chemical has the meaning given in subregulation 5(1) of the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 (Cth) and includes: prohibited carcinogen, as defined in subregulation 5(1) of the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 (Cth); restricted carcinogen, as defined in subregulation 5(1) of the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 (Cth); hazardous chemicals the use of which is restricted under regulation 382 of the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 (Cth), including polychlorinated biphenyls; Schedule 11 Hazardous Chemicals; hazardous chemicals listed in Table 14.1 of Schedule 14 of the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 (Cth); Schedule 15 Chemicals; and lead as defined in subregulation 5(1) of the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 (Cth).

  • Hazardous air pollutant means any air pollutant listed as a hazardous air pollutant pursuant to Section 112(b) of the FCAA.

  • Hazardous Air Pollutant (HAP means any pollutant listed by the EPA as a hazardous air pollutant in conformance with Section 112(b) of the Clean Air Act. A list of these pollutants is available at the Division of Air Quality.

  • Hazardous Materials does not include products or materials that are commonly used in construction or industrial practice so long as they are used in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions or Material Safety Data Sheets issued for the product or materials. (See Article 1.6.3 below.)

  • Hazardous Substances means any toxic or hazardous substances, materials, wastes, contaminants or pollutants, including asbestos, PCBs, petroleum products and byproducts, and any substances defined or listed as "hazardous substances," "hazardous materials," "hazardous wastes" or "toxic substances" (or similarly identified), regulated under or forming the basis for liability under any applicable Environmental Law.

  • Extremely Hazardous Substance has the meaning set forth in Section 302 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, as amended.

  • 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.

  • Household Hazardous Waste means any waste material derived from households (including single

  • 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.

  • Dangerous Substances means a substance or article described in regulation 3 of the Dangerous Substances Regulations;

  • Gaseous pollutants means the exhaust gas emissions of carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen expressed in nitrogen dioxide (NO2) equivalent and hydrocarbons assuming ratio of:

  • Dangerous Substance means any radioactive emissions and any natural or artificial substance (whether in solid or liquid form or in the form of a gas or vapour and whether alone or in combination with any other substance) which, taking into account the concentrations and quantities present and the manner in which it is being used or handled, it is reasonably foreseeable will cause harm to man or any other living organism or damage to the Environment including any controlled, special, hazardous, toxic, radioactive or dangerous waste.

  • Contaminant means any waste, pollutant, hazardous substance, toxic substance, hazardous waste, special waste, petroleum or petroleum-derived substance or waste, asbestos in any form or condition, polychlorinated biphenyls (“PCBs”), or any constituent of any such substance or waste.

  • 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 waste constituent means a constituent that caused the hazardous waste to be listed in Subpart D of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721, or a constituent listed in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 721.124.

  • Hazardous liquid means crude oil, refined petroleum products, liquefied petroleum gases, anhydrous ammonia, liquid fertilizers, liquefied carbon dioxide, alcohols, and coal slurries.

  • Toxic pollutant contaminant", "restricted hazardous waste", "infectious waste", "toxic substances", or any other term or expression intended to define, list or classify substances by reason of properties harmful to health, safety or the indoor or outdoor environment (including harmful properties such as ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity, carcinogenicity, toxicity, reproductive toxicity, "TCLP toxicity" or "EP toxicity" or words of similar import under any applicable Environmental Laws); (ii) any oil, petroleum, petroleum fraction or petroleum derived substance; (iii) any drilling fluids, produced waters and other wastes associated with the exploration, development or production of crude oil, natural gas or geothermal resources; (iv) any flammable substances or explosives; (v) any radioactive materials; (vi) any asbestos-containing materials; (vii) urea formaldehyde foam insulation; (viii) electrical equipment which contains any oil or dielectric fluid containing polychlorinated biphenyls; (ix) pesticides; and (x) any other chemical, material or substance, exposure to which is prohibited, limited or regulated by any governmental authority or which may or could pose a hazard to the health and safety of the owners, occupants or any Persons in the vicinity of any Facility or to the indoor or outdoor environment.

  • 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 anything defined as a hazardous waste, hazardous substance, toxic substance, hazardous material, pollutant, or contaminant or similar term under an Environmental Law

  • Potentially hazardous food means any food or ingredient, natural or synthetic, in a form capable of supporting the growth of infectious or toxigenic microorganisms, including Clostridium botulinum. This term includes raw or heat treated foods of animal origin, raw seed sprouts, and treated foods of plant origin. The term does not include foods which have a pH level of 4.6 or below or a water activity (Aw) value of 0.85 or less.

  • Substances means chemical elements and their compounds in the natural state or obtained by any production process, including any additive necessary to preserve the stability of the products and any impurity deriving from the process used, but excluding any solvent which may be separated without affecting the stability of the substance or changing its composition;