Imagine yourself sitting in your room. The windows are wide open and a fresh breeze is coming through the air. It's summer time. In your neighborhood that means that the Smiths will be running their ice cream van in direct competition with the Gonzalez' family's armada of popsicle bikes. The competition is stiff and you can hear it: the electric monotony of patriotic songs blaring over a loudspeaker wired to the Smith van, and the more subtle ringing of bells attached to the tricked out bikes of the Gonzalez family whose van is in the shop.
You can smell cut grass and almost taste ice cream melting in your mouth Mondays, and the sticky syrup of popsicle sticks dribbling on your chin on Tuesday. If you weren't in the middle of the suburbs you would swear you've discovered the new idyllic, except for one reason: the garbage truck.
Over the sound of the repetitive songs and counter-point-harmony bike bells, you hear the beep beep beep of a garbage truck backing up, and you're brought back to the awful reality of the landfill they've decided to open up just three miles away from your subdivision. Close enough to be within sight, but long enough away to prevent the smell from reaching your window, even on windy days. You wonder as the day closes, where did all the trash come from?
That question, or one similar to it, has motivated legislators to track a specific type of garbage: hazardous waste. Hazardous waste constitutes all the stuff you'd rather not come in contact with because it's the sort of thing that can kill you: toxic chemicals, biohazardous materials, radioactive goop, etc.
Hazardous waste is the kind of stuff that Oscar from Sesame Street would accidentally commit suicide with because it's just too tempting for a trash lover, despite the fatal consequences. In order to prevent actual harm coming to the environment or humans two major legislative pieces have been passed.
The Resource Conservation and Recovery act passed in 1976 provided the base for modern hazardous waste regulation by creating a "cradle to grave" recording system for hazardous waste. A result of that legislation has been the decrease in illegal disposal of hazardous waste, an important achievement since dumping hazardous waste in the environment not only affects natural flora and fauna, but can come back to hurt humans as well.
Another key piece of legislation is the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and liability Act passed in 1980 which created a sort of "superfund" in order to finance the cleaning up of abandoned hazardous waste sites. Managing these sites is a key to greater environmental conservation and the advancement of biohazardous cleaning.
Author Resource:-
London Carpet Cleaning & Janitorial (http://londoncarpetcleaning-tn.com) offers residents of Nashville biohazardous cleaning along with their other residential and commercial services. Art Gib is a freelance writer.
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