March 14, 2003—Coinciding with the new release of the “2003 Commercial Hazardous Waste Recycling, Treatment, & Disposal Facilities,” Environmental Information Limited (EI) has released its most recent statistical summary of commercial facilities. EI has identified 367 such facilities in Canada and the United States.
“Since we began providing these statistical summaries in 1984, there has been a steady decrease in the number of commercial hazardous waste facilities,” says Karl Joyce, an EI researcher who worked on the compilation of data for this latest report. “However, there are still many different choices available to manufacturers and other sources that produce hazardous waste.”
Many facilities offer more than one type of treatment and disposal services onsite.
EI Senior Analyst and Company President Cary Perket says “it became apparent in the 1990s that anticipated government efforts to regulate more manufacturing waste as hazardous was not going to occur, causing a slow but steady decline in the number of commercial facilities. As a result there is a greater balance today than in the past between the supply of commercial facility capacity and the demand for such services.”
The “2003 Commercial Hazardous Waste Recycling, Treatment, & Disposal Facilities” represents a continuation of Environmental Information Limiteds efforts started in 1983 to provide stakeholders with information on the availability of these services. It provides a summarization of basic capabilities of the various hazardous waste facilities in Canada and each of the ten United States Environmental Protection Agency regions. It also presents the geographic distribution of TSDs by specific type of service (energy recovery, metals recycling, incineration, land disposal).
The 73-page research report is available for $95 plus shipping and handling. Environmental Information Limited is located at 5775 Wayzata Blvd, Suite 820, St. Louis Park, Minnesota, 55416. Further information or orders for the research report can be placed by calling 952/831-2473.
