Waste and Hazardous Materials
Waste and Hazardous Materials, Volume 7, Issue 2, 2007
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28 questions. Select a question to see its response table.
- Within the last three years have you or has someone on your behalf inventoried your business for the use, storage, or disposal of hazardous materials, such as acids, solvents, pesticides, used oil, heavy metals like lead or mercury, unused chemicals, paint waste, highly combustible substances, and t...
- Does your business use, store, transport, or dispose of hazardous materials like those just mentioned in its operation? Small amounts of household-like cleaning supplies don’t count.
- Do you transport hazardous material in your business’s operation?
- Do you store or use hazardous material?
- Do you dispose of or trash hazardous material wastes?
- Do you store, dispose of, or transport ENOUGH hazardous materials that you are required to notify the federal Environmental Protection Agency, or its state equivalent, of those materials?
- Are you a conditional exempt generator, a small quantity generator, or a large quantity generator as defined by the Environmental Protection Agency, or are you not sure?
- Do you estimate that your business disposes of:?
- EPA classification of small business (combined results of prior two questions.)
- Do you keep records or a manifest of all hazardous materials used?
- Approximately, how many such hazardous substances do you keep records on?
- In the last three years, has EPA or another governmental agency examined those records?
- Do you use those records for any business purpose, other than to satisfy government requirements?
- How do you dispose of your most PLENTIFUL hazardous waste? Do you:?
- How do you dispose of your most HAZARDOUS or DANGEROUS hazardous waste? Do you:?
- Are your most plentiful hazardous waste and your most hazardous or dangerous waste the same substance?
- In the last three years, did you experience a spill or a leak of a hazardous substance serious enough to require bringing in outside help to clean it up?
- In the last three years, have you been able to substitute less hazardous or non-hazardous materials for the hazardous materials you once used?
- In the last three years, has the amount of hazardous material your business stores and disposes of increased, decreased, or stayed about the same on a per unit of sales basis?
- Which best describes your business situation over the last three years?
- How often do you typically dispose of the solid non-hazardous waste your business generates?
- Who picks up the solid, non-hazardous waste from your business?
- (recycle) Paper product waste
- (recycle) Glass product waste
- (recycle) Plastics product waste
- (recycle) Cans and similar metal product waste
- Why doesn’t your business recycle? Is the primary reason because:?
- Does your business recycle or send to be recycled its used electronic equipment, such as computers, cell phones, televisions or batteries?
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Volume 7, Issue 2, 2007
ISSN 1534-8326
William J. Dennis, Jr.
NFIB Research Foundation
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