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Recommendation MRW 10: — Ensure businesses and facilities handling MRW comply with environmental laws and regulations. Encourage as much reuse and recycling of MRW as possible.

Evaluate the existing compliance strategy, and create a plan for strengthening it. Consider:

• Providing technical assistance on a system-wide basis.
• Increasing use of Environmental Management Systems.
• Ensuring consistency with local hazardous waste plans.
• Using regulations to encourage additional reuse and recycling.
• Increasing focus on and encouraging the prevention of MRW wherever possible.
• Ensuring safe management of today’s hazardous waste, which, if mismanaged, gets into soil and water.

Milestone MRW L: MRW facilities, including treatment, storage, and disposal facilities separately handling MRW, comply with Chapter 173-350 WAC. The facilities reuse or recycle an increasing proportion of MRW.

Links and Resources

• Moderate Risk Waste Regulations
• Moderate Risk Waste Facilities
  

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