HHW Corner | Jan - Jun 2020

Facility Design Series: Six Most Forgotten Features at HHW Collection Facilities
A six-part series published in Waste Advantage Magazine in the "HHW Corner" column

• Six of the Most Forgotten Features at HHW Collection Facilities: Part 1: Smaller is Not Better
• Six Most Forgotten Features at HHW Collection Facilities – Part 2: Local/Spot Exhaust Ventilation
• Six Most Forgotten Features at HHW Collection Facilities – Part 3: Flammables Area
• Six Most Forgotten Features at HHW Collection Facilities – Part 4: Weather Protection
• Six Most Forgotten Features at HHW Collection Facilities – Part 5: HHW Reuse
• Six Most Forgotten Features at HHW Collection Facilities – Part 6: Natural Lighting

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HHW Corner | July - Dec 2020

Continuing HHW Corner monthly column published in Waste Advantage Magazine featuring Special Waste Associates authors covering current issues and historical perspectives on the HHW and VSQG profession.
HHW Corner Articles by topics in order of publication with web links are:

• Staffing Levels at Permanent Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facilities
• Dave Galvin interview, Part 1, "Father of HHW"
• Dave Galvin interview, Part 2, HHW as a profession and its future
• Zero Waste and Net-Zero Buildings Underused
• HHW Collection Effectiveness Metric
• Two Long-standing HHW Programs Show Results

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HHW Corner | 2021

• Managing Small Consumer Batteries - Part 1
  
• Managing Small Consumer Batteries - Part 2
• Scott Cassel interview, Part 1, Product Stewardship Institute
• Scott Cassel interview, Part 2, PSI
• ​Should our Community have a Permanent HHW Collection Facility?  - Part 1
• Should our Community have a Permanent HHW Collection Facility?  - Part 2
• Swimming in Our Toxic Soup 
• Developing Sustainable Household Hazardous Waste Programs - Part 1
• Developing Sustainable Household Hazardous Waste Programs - Part 2
• Debbie Raphael interview, Connection between HHW and Climate Change
• Equity in HHW: Part 1 - Realizing the Issue
• Equity in HHW: Part 2 - Addressing Program Inequities
  

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HHW Corner | 2022

• Equity in HHW: Part 3 - Systematic Equity Programming
• ​Heidi Sanborn interview, Part 1, National Stewardship Action Council
• Heidi Sanborn interview: Part 2, NSAC
• Modern Extended Producer Responsibility in the US 
• Local Benefits of Extended Producer Responsibility
• The Last Three HHW Corner Things
  

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