Hazardous Waste Management and Pollution Training
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Introduction
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Who should attend
Due to regulatory and economic pressure on hazardous waste management, pollution prevention has become a very important environmental strategy in many developed countries. Specifically, opportunities for pollution prevention through source elimination, by-product recovery, and recycle and reuse have received increasing attention.
This Hazardous Waste Management and Pollution Training course will give some details on these various types of contaminants and the new frontiers in eliminating or minimizing these contaminants, the use of effective non-hazardous products in your company and also environmentally acceptable methods of disposal for both hazardous and non-hazardous wastes.
The course provides every professional involved with the knowledge and skills to ensure the safe handling of hazardous waste as well as drafts of contingency/emergency plans.
Course Outline
Introduction to hazardous waste
- What is Contamination and how does it affect us?
- A Detailed Look at All the Various Types of Contamination
- Global Environmental Issues related to Contamination
- International Environmental Treaties and Guidelines related to Contamination
- The Toxic 12 Chemicals and the Role of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
- The Current Watch List for Chemicals that soon may be added to the Toxic 12
- Environmental Law and its Significance
- Definition of Hazardous Wastes & Non-Hazardous Wastes
- Connecting the Dots between Contamination and Hazardous Wastes
