New York Environmental Conservation Law Section 27-0105 - Preferred statewide hazardous waste management practices hierarchy.

27-0105. Preferred  statewide  hazardous  waste  management  practices
           hierarchy.
It is hereby declared that the  following  preferred  hazardous  waste
  management  practices  hierarchy  is  to  be used to guide all hazardous
  waste policies and decisions:
a. The generation of hazardous wastes is to be reduced  or  eliminated
  to the maximum extent practical;
b. Hazardous wastes that continue to be generated are to be recovered,
  reused or recycled to the maximum extent practical;
c.  Detoxification,  treatment  or  destruction technologies are to be
  utilized for hazardous wastes which cannot be reduced, recovered, reused
  or recycled; and
d. Land  disposal  of  industrial  hazardous  wastes,  except  treated
  residuals  posing  no  significant threat to the public health or to the
  environment, should be phased out as it is the least  preferable  method
  of industrial hazardous waste management.

Last modified: February 3, 2019