Solid Waste & Soil Contamination

• The Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia - Detailed descriptions of the contaminants and their effects.
• Wildlife and Pollution - toxic substances and their effects on wildlife.

1. Municipal waste disposal practices
• Municipal Solid Waste
• State Municipal Solid Waste Data
• 1996 EPA report on municipal solid waste trends in the U.S. ~ 160 pages (.pdf)
2. Industrial waste disposal practices
• Industrial waste - How industrial solid waste is disposed in Texas. Good general information.
• Top Polluters - Industries that pollute and what they pollute.
• Who is responsible? - Find out who is polluting in your community.
3. Solid waste regulations
• RCRA
• CERCLA
• SARA
• Connecticut Environmental Plan
• CT  DEP Hazardous waste fact sheet - how to identify and properly dispose of hazardous waste.
4. Solid waste magement
• For an introduction try: A slide show on waste management
1. Cradle-to-grave management of hazardous waste
• RCRA and Hazardous waste management - Applying RCRA to hazardous waste management in Utah. Good general information as well as Utah.
• Identifying Hazardous wastes - Identifying hazardous wastes according to laws in the United States.
• Hazardous Waste and RCRA - Slide shows on hazardous wastes.
• Hazardous Waste Sites and Human Health
2. Landfills
• Landfill manual - landfills and their effects.
• Landfills - Design, effects and even a virtual tour.
• Landfill cleanup manual
• Federal Regulations for landfills
• More on landfill design
• How Landfills Work
• Landfill terms - Fresh Kills, NY specific and general terms
• Wastes and landfills
• Groundwater and Landfills - the effects of landfills on domestic drinking water.
• Innovations in Landfill Design:
• Bioreactor Landfill - Aerobic disposal.
• Advanced Landfill Cover
3. Surface impoundments
• Waste management in the Uranium Mining Industry - including Surface impoundments.
4. Underground "deep-well" injection systems
5. Waste piles
• Waste tires in Tennessee
6. Land treatment
• Studying land treatment and water quality trends
7. Composting
5. Waste Minimization strategies
• The National Waste Minimization Program
6. Incineration
• Incinerator Diagram
• Common Incinerator Problems
7. Waste remediation
1. Superfund
• EPA superfund
• EPA Superfund for kids
• Superfund fact book
• The Toxicological Hazard of Superfund Hazardous Waste sites - Superfund and it's relation to human health. (Detailed artical
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
• The text of the Superfund law
• How sites are placed on the superfund list

•  How the EPA scores sites for Hazardous waste content

• Hazardous waste sources
• Toxins in Connecticut
• Southington, CT Superfund Site
• National Priority List (NPL)
• Hazardous waste landfill picture gallery
1. Priority pollutants
• Common pollutants at Superfund sites
• Top 20 toxic substances
1. Siting, the problems of NIMBY
• Dealing with the problem - A review of guidlines for dealing with the problem.
• "Not In My Backyard" (NIMBY) - Correlation between public participation to success in establishment of waste disposal facilities.