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Waste and Recycling (COVID-19 Impacts)
- Enforcement Status of State Bottle Redemption Regulations (Source: RCC)
- State Changes to Consumer Bag Regulations (Source: RCC)
- How Coronavirus is Disrupting US Waste and Recycling (Source: Waste Dive)
- With EPR Bills Frozen Due to Coronavirus in Many States, Proponents Still See Path Forward (Source: Waste Dive)
- COVID-19 Pandemic Reveals True Importance of Recycling and the Supply Chain (Source: Waste 360)
- Some Cities Restart Recycling as Cuts Continue Elsewhere (Source: Resource Recycling)
- China Promulgates Amendment to Its Solid Waste Law (Source: JD Supra)
Changes to RCRA
- EPA Finalizes Changes to the RCRA Ignitability Characteristic, Backing Away from Proposed Substantive Modifications But Providing Important New Guidance (Beveridge & Diamond Analysis)
- Prepublication of Modernizing Ignitable Liquids Determinations Final Rule
- Pharmaceutical Rule Adoption State Tracking Matrix (Source: RCC)
- Manifesting Non-Creditable Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals- New Four Character Code (Source: EPA)
- Final Rule: Management Standards for Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals and Amendment to the P075 Listing for Nicotine (Source: EPA)
- EPA webinars on the contents of the final rule - register or view archive here. (Source: EPA)
- Analysis of Pharmaceutial Rule (Beveridge & Diamond)
- Proposed Rule: Modernizing Ignitable Liquids Determinations, April 2, 2019 (Federal Register)
- EPA Proposal to Modernize the RCRA Ignitability Characteristic May Cause More Wastes to be Classified as Hazardous (Beveridge and Diamond analysis)
- EPA Issues Final Rule on Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements (Source: EPA)
- RCC Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements State Tracking Matrix
- Analysis of Hazardous Waste Generator Rule (Source: Beveridge & Diamond)
Aerosol Cans As Universal Waste
- EPA Finalizes Universal Waste Rule for Hazardous Aerosol Can Wastes, Streamlining Requirements for Their Management (Source: Beveridge & Diamond)
- Final Rule Adding Aerosol Cans to Universal Waste Regulations, pre-publication Version (EPA)
- Proposed Rule: Increasing Recycling: Adding Aerosol Cans to the Universal Waste Regulations (Federal Register)
- Increasing Recycling: Adding Aerosol Cans to the Universal Waste Regulations (EPA)
- EPA Issues Proposal to Streamline Requirements for Hazardous Aerosol Can Wastes by Classifying and Regulating Them as “Universal Wastes” (Source: Beveridge & Diamond)
Chemical Ingredient Requirements at the State Level
- States Consider 93 Bills to Restrict Chemicals in 2019 (Source: Beveridge & Diamond)
- California Cleaning Products Right to Know Act (Source: CA Legislative Information)
- New York Department of Environmental Conservation Household Cleaning Product Ingredient Disclosure Program (Source: NY DEP)
EPA's eManifest System
- The Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest (E-Manifest) System Homepage (Source: EPA)
- EPA Region 7 Plans 12 e-Manifest Workshops Across Four-State Region for Hazardous Waste Handlers, Managers and Shippers (Source: EPA)
