EPA Regulatory Updates for Retailers
- By [ Tiffin Shewmake ]
- 12/29/2017
EPA's latest Regulatory Agenda contains updates to some items that are directly relevant to retail. Below is a summary of the most pertinent updates:
Management Standards for Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals: The projected date for publication of a Final Rule has been postponed by one month to July 2018. Read notice.
Modernizing Ignitable Liquids Determinations: A proposed rule to update flash point test methods for the determination of characteristically ignitable hazardous waste is still scheduled for publication in August 2018. However, the notice no longer states that the proposal will include provisions to narrow the exclusion for aqueous wastes with less than 24% alcohol. Instead, it now states that "the proposal may be used to take comment on the alcohol exclusion for ignitable aqueous alcohols and whether a revision is necessary to improve existing waste management practices." This is a win for retail, as the number of products retailers would have to manage as "ignitable" increases greatly should the current exclusion be narrowed. Read notice.
Increasing Recycling: Adding Aerosol Cans to the Universal Waste Regulations: A proposed rule to classify hazardous waste aerosol cans as a "universal waste" is still scheduled to be published in April 2018. Read notice.
