How do academic laboratories differ from industrial hazardous waste generators?
Relative to industrial production facilities, academic laboratories generally have a large number of points of generation (i.e., points where waste is originally generated), such as multiple laboratory benchtops within a single laboratory and laboratories located in multiple buildings on a single campus. Academic laboratories also tend to generate a relatively small volume of each hazardous waste and many different wastestreams at each of these points of generation. In contrast, industrial generators tend to generate only a few wastestreams in large quantities at relatively few generation points. Additionally, while most individuals involved in hazardous waste generation activities are employees who are professionally trained in managing hazardous wastes as part of their job, those who generally generate hazardous waste at laboratories at eligible academic entities are students who do not possess the same level of training. Another contrast between these entities is the transient natur
