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Prohibitions

Environmental Protection (Hazardous Waste) Regulations, reg. 19 · Revised Edition 2020

Landfill disposal of the following hazardous wastes is (a) solid hazardous wastes containing 1 or more halogenated organic compounds in a total combined concentration greater than 1000 milligrams per kilogram; (b) solid hazardous wastes containing 1 or more of the following non-halogenated organic compounds in a total combined concentration greater than 1000 milligrams per kilogram– (i) acetone; (ii) benzene; (iii) nebutyl alcohol; (iv) carbon disulfide: (v) cresols and cresylic acid; (vi) cyclohexanone; (vii) ethyl acetate; 306 Environmental Protection (viii) ethyl benzene; (xi) ethyl ether; (x) isobutanol; (xi) methanol; (xii) methyl ethyl ketone; (xiii) methyl isobutyl ketone; (xiv) nitrobenzene; (xv) 2-nitropropanone; (xvi) pyridine; (xvii) toluene; (xviii) xylene; (c) flammable gasses that exert a measurable pressure on the cylinder, tube, tank or container in which they are held; (d) hydrocarbon contaminated solids exhibiting a flash point less than or equal to 61 degrees Centigrade as determined by the closed cup test method; (e) flammable substances that are liable to spontaneous combustion under the conditions of disposal or are liable to emit flammable gasses under the conditions of disposal; Schedule Table 2 Column I. (f) wastes which produce a waste extract that contains one or more substances listed in Column I of Table 2 of the Schedule in Environmental Protection 307 concentrations equal or greater than the concentration specified for each contaminant in Column II of the said Table, if those wastes are to be disposed with municipal garbage; (g) earthen materials including gravel, sand clay and soil, that contain more than 100 parts per million by weight of polychlorinated biphenyls; (h) hazardous wastes with a pH less than 2.0 or more than 12.5; (i) solid hazardous wastes producing a waste extract which contains any substance in a concentration greater than the value for that substance shown in subregulation (f) to (h).
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