EPAs don't see dross in landfill as hazardous
BY Robert Wang
The Canton Repository
PIKE TWP - The U.S. Department of Transportation says it’s hazardous.
In Wabash, Ind., it’s suspected of causing a fire last year in at least one, if not two, landfills.
And south of Uhrichsville, in Tuscarawas County, it produced ammonia gas and contaminated a wetland. Later, nearly a million tons of it were trucked to Stark County and buried at Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility in Pike Township.
So why don’t the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. EPA list aluminum dross as a hazardous waste? And why isn’t it restricted from solid waste landfills?...Read more.
The Canton Repository
PIKE TWP - The U.S. Department of Transportation says it’s hazardous.
In Wabash, Ind., it’s suspected of causing a fire last year in at least one, if not two, landfills.
And south of Uhrichsville, in Tuscarawas County, it produced ammonia gas and contaminated a wetland. Later, nearly a million tons of it were trucked to Stark County and buried at Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility in Pike Township.
So why don’t the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. EPA list aluminum dross as a hazardous waste? And why isn’t it restricted from solid waste landfills?...Read more.
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