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US agency rejects petition to classify PVC waste as ‘hazardous’


The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published a “tentative denial” of a petition that waste PVC materials should be listed as hazardous waste. The decision follows an


agreement the EPA entered into with the petitioner — The Center for Biological Diversity — in May last year. It called on the EPA to “promulgate regulations governing the safe treat- ment, storage and disposal of PVC, vinyl chloride and associated dialkyl- and alkylarylesters of 1,2-ben- zenedicarboxylic acid,


Above: The EPA has rejected a call to treat PVC waste as hazardous


commonly known as phthalate plasticisers.” In its tentative denial, the


EPA said: the petition did not provide sufficient evidence to suggest listing


PVC as hazardous waste would have a significant impact on phthalate exposure; had not shown that exposure to phthalates resulted from current waste


management practices; had not demonstrated that tighter incineration rules under RCRA would reduce emissions; and had not established proper evi- dence of plasticiser leaching from discarded PVC. The EPA also said the petition conflated exposure with hazard and added that the resource-intensive process of listing PVC hazardous waste would preclude it from more pressing hazard pro- grammes. It is requesting public comment. � www.epa.gov


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