Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book will prove useful not only for both large and small academic institutions, but for small businesses as well. As small quantity generators and conditionally excluded small quantity generators, secondary schools, colleges, universities, and small businesses will identify with the problems-and solutions-presented here.

The approaches in this book can save many chemistry departments thousands of dollars. In addition, they significantly clarify the often complicated legal requirements placed on both secondary and post-secondary institutions by state and federal government.

This informative book offers specific, practical, and cost-effective solutions to the problems of waste disposal, from a description of a successful program to conduct a one-time cleanout of secondary schools, to the identification of chemicals that have no identity.

Approaches to waste disposal taken around the country, including in-house treatment, lab packing, and the benefits of recycling through waste exchange programs are covered.

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CHOICE Review

Nearly a third of this book consists of a single chapter, "How to Establish an Academic Laboratory Waste Management Program," which is a helpful review of the basics of academic-institution waste generation and disposal. Unfortunately, the remaining 13 chapters, averaging fewer than 10 pages each, range in quality from potentially useful ("Tested Laboratory Disposal Methods") to superficial ("Regional Differences in Laboratory Waste Disposal Practices"), and are not well integrated by the editor. Terms and concepts defined in early chapters are likely to be reintroduced as if de novo in later chapters. The index is not thorough, and consists in large part of the names of coauthors of literature cited in the text. Academic laboratories are under the gun to clean up their waste management practices. Thus, they had better buy this book, if only for its single useful chapter, but they will be disappointed by much else. Even the chapter on "Tested Disposal Methods" is less reliable and thorough than G. Lunn and E.B. Sansone's Destruction of Hazardous Chemicals in the Laboratory (CH, Nov'90), which should stand next to this volume on the shelf. -T. R. Blackburn, St. Andrews Presbyterian College