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Recommendation MRW8: Ensure MRW and hazardous substances are managed according to hazards, toxicity and riskDevelop a long-term approach to evaluate and, if needed, modify environmental laws and regulations that govern MRW, looking into two main areas. First, consider a graduated regulatory system governing waste that is based less on quantity and more on other risk factors such as toxicity, mobility, and persistence. These changes would be two-fold: to provide more incentive for the reduction of target risk factors, such as toxicity and to ensure that wastes that exhibit these target risk factors are subject to the highest level of care the regulatory system affords, possibly regardless of quantity. Second, evaluate moving to a more comprehensive regulatory system that removes barriers and provides incentives to reduce the same target risk factors in hazardous substances and products that contain hazardous substances.
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