Mr. Cain has over forty years of comprehensive environmental management experience. He has served as a South Carolina environmental regulatory official, a remediation consultant, a senior regional environmental manager (for the largest hazardous waste management company in the US), the Southeast Region Manager for site assessment and remediation with a publicly traded global provider of professional environmental services, and in 2008 he founded Novesis, Inc.
Universal Waste Aerosol Cans Final Rule Summary
The Aerosol Cans Universal Waste Final Rule (UW Rule) incorporates aerosol cans containing hazardous waste that are generated and accumulated by various entities into the EPA’s Federal Universal Waste Rules found in Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (40 CFR) Part 273. Federally (and in states which have adopted this rule, including South Carolina), aerosol cans containing hazardous wastes may now be managed in accordance with the more streamlined provisions of the UW Rule as opposed to the traditional hazardous waste management requirements of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) regulations. …
Read MoreTCLP vs SPLP and the Proper Applications for Each
Questions frequently arise within the regulated community regarding the differences between the TCLP and SPLP laboratory tests, and the proper applications for each. TCLP is an abbreviation of Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure and SPLP is an abbreviation of Synthetic Precipitation Leaching Procedure. Both procedures are laboratory tests used to analyze leachate. …
Read MoreThe U.S. EPA's HWGIR Update of Container Accumulation Requirements for CAAs vs SAAs
The hazardous waste generator improvements rule (HWGIR), has created changes in some of the requirements for Central Accumulation Areas (CAAs) and Satellite Accumulation Areas (SAAs). The following table has been developed by Novesis to summarize the differing requirements for the accumulation/storage of hazardous wastes in containers by generators in CAAs versus SAAs. We hope you find it helpful. …
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