The health and environmental impacts of hazardous wastes

In hazard score terms, the top 10-12 wastes exhibit hazard characteristics of biohazard (clinical and related waste), chromium-based toxicity/ eco-toxicity (wood preserving chemicals and hexavalent chromium compounds), explosivity, or persistent (mainly chronic) debilitative impacts widely in the environment as well as to human health (dioxins and furans, pesticides, PCBs and other halogenated ... ................
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