Tag: Reverse Logistics

Pill bottles, pharmaceuticals

EPA’s Regulations on Waste Prescription and Nonprescription Pharmaceuticals

The EPA has long emphasized that the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and its regulations were written to address the generation of solid and hazardous wastes by industrial plants and the storage, treatment, and disposal of such wastes at permitted facilities and landfills. What the regulations were not intended to cover is the generation […]

Finding the Logic in Reverse Logistics

Are reverse operations moving forward for retailers? If you manage a retail operation, you are confronted with waste and hazardous materials problems that can be confusing for even the most seasoned manager. Yesterday we looked at reverse distribution and how even one of the largest retailers with legal and environmental health and safety staff got […]