Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 45 provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. It serves as a bridge connecting the domains of resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology, and it explains their interrelationships in terms that students and other nonspecialists can understand. The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the . Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits. . | 388 Environmental law in the United States Global Resources source Conservation and Recovery Act RCRA . Although RCRA relates to solid waste generally its key regulator y provisions are found in Subtitle C which imposes cradle to grave controls on hazardous waste. Strict regulator y controls apply when material falls within the definition of hazardous waste. Some wastes are specifically listed as hazardous while others may be determined to be so based on the presence of a hazardous characteristic such as toxicity reactivity corrosivity and ignitability. In general household waste is excluded from the program. There are also separate provisions regulating underground storage tanks such as those used for gasoline and other hazardous liquids. Under Subtitle C generators of hazardous wastes are subjected to strict recordkeeping and reporting as well as to specifications for containment and labeling. Activists rally in 1985 . Capitol for the passage of amendments to Superfund legislation a group of . laws focused on hazardous waste remediation. Time Life Pictures Getty Images Transporters are required to comply with a manifest system which identifies the waste and assures that it is taken to a permitted facility for treatment storage or disposal TSD . TSD facilities must comply with elaborate permitting requirements usually issued and enforced by a state agency including not only technical standards but also financial responsibility and background review. Under the 1984 amendments land disposal is regarded as the least favored method for managing hazardous wastes and is severely restricted. Landfills may be permitted provided they meet strict technical requirements such as double plastic liners and leachate collection systems. Treatment systems are preferred they must meet best demonstrated available technology standards. The RCRA regulates hazardous wastes prospectively. Although RCRA provides for injunctive relief to eliminate imminent and substantial .
