title: Hazardous Waste Management: An Introduction
author:  Cliff VanGuilder 
description: Drawing on his 20 years as the regional solid and hazardous materials engineer for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, VanGuilder offers a textbook or tutorial introducing the technical field of hazardous waste management, and the myriad US and state hazardous waste regulations. The two cannot be separated, he says, because many of the regulations are written with prescribed treatment standards and in some cases prescribed treatment technologies. After tracing briefly the history of hazardous waste, he considers such topics as hazardous waste policy and regulatory requirements, hazardous waste site clean-up technologies, wastewater management, and hazardous waste record-keeping requirements. Chapter-end exercises are provided, half of which are answered in the back matter.
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  Books by the Author
  
  
  Random Violence
  
  
  Stolen Lives
  
  
  The Fallen
  
  
  Pale Horses
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter Six
  
  
  The car headed out of the visitors’ parking, turned right, and joined up with
  a main thoroughfare. In the opposite direction, Jade saw a large van
  approaching. It had the international radioactivity symbol displayed on its
  side, a black trefoil on a bright yellow background. Below that, in black on
  yellow, was the lettering warning: radioactive material in transit.
  
  
  “What’s in there?” Jade asked.
  
  
  “It’s our low-and intermediate-level waste,” Gillespie said. “Lab coats,
  consumables, contaminated machinery. It’s sealed in containers and loaded into
  the vans, which leave the complex late at night, then travel through the night
  while the roads are quieter, for added safety. The waste is transported to a
  place called Vaalputs, on the Northern Cape, and buried there. It’s a safe way
  of disposing of it. The nearest town is more than one hundred kilometers away,
  and the area is not 