The Congress hereby declares it to be a national policy of United States that wherever feasible, the generation of hazardous waste is to be reduced or eliminated as expeditiously as possible.
美国国会宣称它是一无论在美国哪里都可行的国家政策，要尽可能迅速地回收或消除危险废物的产生。
Waste that is nevertheless generated should be treated, stored, or disposed of so as to minimize present and future threatto human health and the environment.
然而产生的废物还是应被处理、储存或处置储存，从而尽量减少现在和将来对人类健康和环境的威胁。
In 1990, the U.S. Congress passed the Pollution Prevention Act, establishing a hierarchy of waste management as national policy; stating that first pollution should be prevented or reduced wherever feasible;
在1990年，美国国会通过污染防治法，建立了一个全国废物管理政策。表明第一污染应该被预表或回收；
second, waste should be recycled in an environmentally safe manner;
第二，废物应该用一种环保安全的方式进行循环利用；
third, waste should be treated;
第三，废物应该被处理;
and as a last resort, waste should be disposed of or released to the environment.
最后，废物应该被除去或降解到环境。
With the passage of these and other environmental laws, waste minimization has become an important operating philosophy in the United States.
在美国，随着这些和其他环境法规的通过，废物最少化成为一种重要的工作理念.
Waste Reduction/Waste Minimization Techniques
废物回收/废物最少化技术
While, for any particular plant, waste minimization is certainly plant or site specific, the techniques used can be grouped into a variety of major categories:
同时，对于一些特定的工厂，废物最少化的当然是在具体的工厂或在实地，能用的技术能被分为以下主要几类：
●product changes产品改变
●process changes过程改变
●equipment modifications设备改造
●operating practices操作训练
●recycling and reuse回收和再利用
In practice, the waste minimization opportunities are limited only by the ingenuity of the plant personnel.
在实践中，，，，尽量减少废物的机会是有限的，只有被工厂人员的聪明才智所利用.
The techniques have applications across the vast range of industries and manufacturing process, and can apply to both hazardous and nonhazardous waste.
这种技术已经被运用与大数量的工业和工业化生产过程，同时也被应用于有危险性和非危险性的废物。
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