| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 66.49 |
| Liaison | Ezra Small |
| Submission Date | July 29, 2011 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of Massachusetts Amherst
OP-21: Hazardous Waste Management
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
1.00 / 1.00 |
Katherine
McCusker Green Building Research Associate Facilities Planning |
Does the institution have strategies in place to safely dispose of all hazardous, 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, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste:
chemical inventory system called CEMS (chemical environmental management system) is a reuse and exchange program to reduce the amount of hazardous, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste.
There is also a Hazardous and waste subcommittee on the University's Environmental Performance Advisory Committee that makes decisions for campus in regards to hazardous, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste. This committee as well as the department of Environmental Heath and Safety have developed hazardous waste protocols and procedures
Universal waste- bulb crusher
A brief description of how the institution safely disposes of hazardous, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste:
The university complies with established regulations from the Mass Department Environmental Protection, MDEP (310cmr30), as well as regulations from the EPA (40cfr260, 40cfr262, 40cfr273)
The university has on site hazardous waste contractor (TSDF) who picks up and will either bulk or lab pack laboratory chemicals
The website URL where information about hazardous materials management is available:
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