| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 55.41 |
| Liaison | Deborah Steinberg |
| Submission Date | Feb. 18, 2013 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Carnegie Mellon University
OP-21: Hazardous Waste Management
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
1.00 / 1.00 |
Madelyn
Miller Director EH&S: Environmental Health & Safety |
Does the institution have strategies in place to safely dispose of all hazardous, special (e.g. coal ash), universal, and non-regulated chemical waste and seek to minimize the presence of these materials on campus?:
A brief description of steps taken to reduce hazardous, special (e.g. coal ash), universal, and non-regulated chemical waste:
Carnegie Mellon University's Environmental Health & Safety Department (EH&S) Office, regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), manages the safety disposal of all hazardous, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste. To minimize hazardous wastes, EH&S has incorporated a hazardous waste minimization program, stressing proper purchasing, (smaller quantities, lower hazard), proper chemical inventory & maintenance, procedure micro-scaling, chemical sharing, proper waste segregation.
A brief description of how the institution safely disposes of hazardous, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste:
Carnegie Mellon University's Environmental Health & Safety Department Office, regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, manages the safety disposal of all hazardous, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste.
Waste generators all receive training. Waste requests are made on-line.
All hazardous waste is picked up at the point of generation, (laboratory, studio or shop) by filling out an electronic pickup request form and packaging the waste in special boxes provided by the EH&S.
Electronic waste is also collected by on-line request. Program guidance and operation procedure is available in training, newsletters and on the website.
The website URL where information about hazardous materials management is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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