On January 13, 2014 (80 FR 1694), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final ruling in the federal register that revises several recycling-related provisions associated with the definition of solid waste in 40 CFR Parts 260 and 261 used to determine hazardous waste regulation under Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).
The purpose of these revisions is to ensure that the hazardous secondary materials recycling regulations, as implemented, encourage reclamation in a way that does not result in increased risk to human health and the environment from discarded hazardous secondary material.
This final rule is effective on July 13, 2015.