Hazardous Waste Awareness
Environmental & Occupational Safety Training
Common Areas on Campus Generating Hazardous Waste
Areas where hazardous wastes may be generated on campus might include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Science Labs (i.e. spent or expired chemicals from chemistry, biology or other labs; abandoned compressed gases, etc.)
- Art Departments (i.e. paints, thinners, photo developing chemicals, glazes, contaminated brushes/rags, etc.)
- Physical Plant Shops (i.e. paints, thinners, solvents, certain pressurized aerosol spray cans, spent fuels, spent mercury-containing fluorescent lamps, unless properly recycled, which is discussed later in this manual.)
- Automotive Shops (i.e. spent solvents, degreasers, antifreeze, lead acid batteries, oil spill cleanup residue, etc.)
- Other Areas (i.e. wastes generated from research and teaching processes in schools of pharmacy, medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, etc.)
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