| Tuesday May 7, 2019 | by bwdus | in Environment | Recycling |
Avoid Hazardous Waste Disposal Penalties with BWD
Party City Corporation was ordered to pay $878,750 this month as part of a settlement in a prosecution resulting from the company’s mishandling of hazardous waste throughout California. The fund...
| Thursday April 11, 2019 | by bwdus | in OSHA |
Changes to OSHA’s Workplace Injury Reporting
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has decided to undo a 2016 ruling put into place by the Obama Administration. Businesses with 250 or more employees are no longer required to ...
| Sunday March 31, 2019 | by bwdus | in Environment | Medical Waste Management |
A Clever Approach to Dental Waste
Dentists in Livingston County, Michigan have found an ingenious way to reuse gold, silver, platinum and palladium from patients’ old tooth fillings. Proceeds from the precious metals, collected ove...
| Monday March 18, 2019 | by bwdus | in Environment | Medical Waste Management |
EPA Releases New Rule for Pharmaceutical Waste
Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a new rule concerning the handling, storage, transportation and disposal of hazardous waste pharmaceuticals. The rule will go into effe...
| Tuesday March 12, 2019 | by bwdus | in Environment | Medical Waste Management |
Avoid Problems Surrounding Improper Medical Waste Disposal
Improper medical waste disposal poses a danger to human health and the environment, and can accrue heavy fines and legal penalties. Busy medical facilities trust that their medical waste is disposed ...
| Tuesday June 19, 2018 | by bwdus | in Medical Waste Management |
Medical waste disposal can’t be taken lightly. But providers might actually be overdoing it.
The business of waste — specifically, the business of off-site management of hazardous and non-hazardous medical waste — is big. The global medical waste management industry is so large, in fact,...
| Tuesday June 19, 2018 | by bwdus | in Environment |
Colorado joins states adopting stricter vehicle emissions standard
Colorado announced Tuesday it will join a number of states that have moved to implement heightened vehicle emissions standards as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mulls changing laws to...