ENVIRONMENTAL FINAL GOVERNING STANDARDS ITALY

ITALY - 8 Medical Waste Management
C8.2.21. Urban Waste. Waste produced in urban (municipal) areas, including:
C8.2.21.1. Residential waste, including bulky waste from households or housing units
C8.2.21.2. Non-hazardous waste that is not generated by households, but that can be
considered as urban waste in terms of quality and quantity, according to the provisions listed in
the waste management regulation issued by the local Municipality
C8.2.21.3. Waste from street-cleaning activities
C8.2.21.4. Any type of waste from any public area such as roads, parks, beaches, lake
shores, river shores, or similar public areas
C8.2.21.5. Yard waste from gardens, parks, and cemeteries, including trees, branches,
and stumps
C8.2.21.6. Wastes from exhumation and any other waste from cemetery areas different
from those in numbers 2, 3, and 4 above
C8.2.21.7. Septic pump-out waste is excluded from the definition of urban waste.
C8.2.22. Waste Generator. A generator is considered to be the entity whose processes or
actions generate waste.
C8.2.23. Waste Loading and Unloading Register. A specific and dedicated log book, kept
at the installation, used to record all waste transfers, which includes all onsite “loading”
operations (i.e., data on waste temporarily stored at the site including waste code, amount and
date of storage) and all “unloading” operations undertaken at the site (i.e. data on waste shipped
off-site for disposal/recovery/recycling, including waste code, amount shipped, date of transport,
and name of waste carrier). Waste collected by the municipality is not required to be recorded
on this waste register.
C8.2.24. Waste Manifest. A specific form used to track the shipment of special waste from
its point of origin to its point of disposal.
C8.2.25. WSA Manager. A person on the installation with the operational responsibility
for receiving, storing, inspecting, and generally managing the installation's WSA.
C8.3. CRITERIA
C8.3.1. Waste Classification. Waste generating activities will classify their waste streams
using the USEUCOM Waste List. Laboratory analysis shall be used to identify the chemical
constituents of unknown wastes.
C8.3.2. Waste Analysis Plan. The TWSA/WSA manager, in conjunction with the
installation(s) served, will develop a plan to determine how and when wastes are to be analyzed.
The waste analysis plan will also include procedures for characterization and verification testing
September 2012 Italy FGS 8-4
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