Pesticides

Pesticides

Any chemical or substance used to kill or inhibit the growth of pests that damage or interfere with the growth of crops, shrubs, tress, timber and other vegetation useful to humans.

Industry: Agricultural chemicals

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Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Larger publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) with flows equal to at least one million gallons per day (mgd) or servicing a population equivalent to 10,000 persons; certain other POTWs having ...

Man-Made (Anthropogenic) Beta Particle and Photon Emitters

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

All radionuclides emitting beta particles and/or photons listed in Maximum Permissible Body Burdens and Maximum Permissible Concentrations of Radonuclides in Air and Water for Occupational Exposure.

Under the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA), a document that each Local Education Agency is required to prepare, describing all activities planned and undertaken by a school to comply ...

managerial controls

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Methods of nonpoint source pollution control based on decisions about managing agricultural wastes or application times or rates for agrochemicals.

mandatory recycling

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Programs which by law require consumers to separate trash so that some or all recyclable materials are recovered for recycling rather than going to landfills.