The term "hazardous" is used to refer to any material, condition, or situation that could cause injury, illness, environmental damage, death, or property damage.
The term "non-hazardous" is used to describe a material, condition or situation that is thought not to be able to cause injury, illness, environmental damage, death, or property damage.
what is the term hazardous and non-hazardous?the term hazardous is used to refer to any material,condition,or situation that could cause injury, illness
Some hazardous chemicals can be made non-hazardous and some cannot.
You are allowed to mixed a non-hazardous waste with a hazardous waste
Rags or wipes are considered non-hazardous waste when they are
Always good advice. When referring to hazardous and non-hazardous wastes, putting any hazardous with the non-hazardous causes the entire container to be classified as hazardous under US EPA rules.
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If it isn't hazardous, there is no reason to label it, except for what the substance is.
The term nonhazardous is often spelled as one word, but can also be seen hyphenated, non-hazardous.
Hazardous wastes are materials that are to be discarded (i.e. are wastes) but can be a danger to people or to the environment and meet the definition based on the identity of the material or on test results. If hazardous wastes are mixed with the nonhazardous wastes, the result is a hazardous waste. A non-hazardous waste is something that is to be discarded (i.e is a waste) but does not meet the definition of a hazardous waste.
There are weight limits in some situations, transportation, for instance, and not in others.
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paper, plastic cardboard