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Answer 1

Currently, though, the majority (65.4 percent) of materials discarded by homes and businesses in the U.S. are ultimately dumped into landfills or burned in incinerators. The U.S. only composts and recycles about half that much material at 34.6 percent.

• Bringing waste lamps, batteries, and ballasts to the appropriate accumulation locations for storage.
• Ensuring each storage location has containers (drums, boxes) appropriate for storing waste materials, materials for marking containers, and spill response materials;
• Appropriately marking each storage container;
• Ensuring waste lamps, batteries, and ballasts are regularly picked up for disposal with no waste remaining on site for more than one year from the accumulation start date or 90-days for leaking batteries or ballasts containing PCBs;
• Ensuring personnel who harndle waste lamps, ballasts, or batteries take required “Batteries, Lamps, and Ballasts - Waste Handling” training online within 90-days of start of employment.
• Maintaining a service agreement with a permitted third-party universal waste disposal company and ensuring the third-party company operates within the terms set within the service agreement.