# Definition of Solid Waste
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 2015-01-13 · Effective 2015-07-13 · 80 FR 1694
## Document
- **Document number:** 2014-30382
- **Category:** hazardous-waste
- **Federal Register citation:** 80 FR 1694
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 260
- **Publication date:** 2015-01-13
- **Effective date:** 2015-07-13
- **EPA docket:** EPA-HQ-RCRA-2010-0742
## Abstract

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, or the Agency) is publishing a final rule that revises several recycling-related provisions associated with the definition of solid waste used to determine hazardous waste regulation under Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The purpose of these revisions is to ensure that the hazardous secondary materials recycling regulations, as implemented, encourage reclamation in a way that does not result in increased risk to human health and the environment from discarded hazardous secondary material.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/01/13/2014-30382/definition-of-solid-waste)
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