About this courseAny company involved with building-construction, demolition, or renovation creates construction and demolition (C&D) debris. This debris can consist of three types of waste: (1) inert or nonhazardous waste; (2) hazardous waste as regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); and (3) items that contain hazardous components that might be regulated by some states. This course describes the required procedures to be followed when generating, storing, transporting, or disposing of hazardous waste. Often the best way to deal with the waste is to keep it out of landfills by reducing its volume, reusing it, and recycling it, and the course provides guidelines on how this can best be done. Several successful case studies of recycling demolition materials are presented.
Topics:
Federal definition of hazardous waste
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
The three categories of hazardous waste generators
The four lists of hazardous wastes
The four characteristics of hazardous wastes
Hazardous waste codes
Methods for reducing the amount of waste generated
Managing oil and tires waste
Other environmental laws affecting the construction industry
Reduction, reuse, and recycling of C&D materials: ideas and examples
Benefits to C&D recycling
Using recycled industrial materials in buildings
Case study of a successful brownfield C&D waste reduction project
Publication Source: US Environmental Protection Agency
This course includes:
schedule3 hours on-demand content
signal_cellular_altBeginner level
task_altNo preparation required
calendar_todayPublished At Apr 28, 2022
workspace_premiumCertificate of completion
calendar_todayUpdated At May 3, 2022