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This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on July 26, 1993. The length of the article is 749 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Greenfield Environmental: hazardous waste management leader. (Environment 1993)
Publication: San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 26, 1993
Publisher: CBJ, L.P.
Volume: v14Issue: n30Page: pA12(2)

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This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on April 26, 1993. The length of the article is 769 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Greenfield Environmental - a hazardous waste management leader. (Environment 1993)
Publication: San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 26, 1993
Publisher: CBJ, L.P.
Volume: v14Issue: n17Page: pB3(1)

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This digital document is a journal article from Environment International, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Industry has become an essential part of modern society, and waste production is an inevitable outcome of the developmental activities. A material becomes waste when it is discarded without expecting to be compensated for its inherent value. These wastes may pose a potential hazard to the human health or the environment (soil, air, water) when improperly treated, stored, transported or disposed off or managed. Currently in India even though hazardous wastes, emanations and effluents are regulated, solid wastes often are disposed off indiscriminately posing health and environmental risk. In view of this, management of hazardous wastes including their disposal in environment friendly and economically viable way is very important and therefore suggestions are made for developing better strategies. Out of the various categories of the wastes, solid waste contributes a major share towards environmental degradation. The present paper outlines the nature of the wastes, waste generating industries, waste characterization, health and environmental implications of wastes management practices, steps towards planning, design and development of models for effective hazardous waste management, treatment, approaches and regulations for disposal of hazardous waste. Appraisal of the whole situation with reference to Indian scenario is attempted so that a better cost-effective strategies for waste management be evolved in future. ... Read more