Abstract
In 1976 the U.S. chemical industry appeared preoccupied with the then newly passed Toxic Substances Control Act which promised for the first time to regulate the chemical business in a very basic way. Although another piece of less-noticed legislation, the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA), had been passed at nearly the same time, it took two years for its impact to be fully appreciated. By some analyses, the effect of RCRA on the chemical industry appears to be nearly as great, as TSCA's, and certainly more immediate. Unlike the toxics law, RCRA doesn't try to tell chemical makers what they can make. It tells them what they will have to do with chemicals they no longer want. The need for proper disposal of hazardous chemical wastes cannot be disputed. Newspaper headlines almost daily remind the public of long-forgotten chemical waste dumps that have come back to haunt communities such as Love Canal near Buffalo, ...
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