# Increasing Recycling: Adding Aerosol Cans to the Universal Waste Regulations
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 2019-12-09 · Effective 2020-02-07 · 84 FR 67202
## Document
- **Document number:** 2019-25674
- **Category:** hazardous-waste
- **Federal Register citation:** 84 FR 67202
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 260
- **Publication date:** 2019-12-09
- **Effective date:** 2020-02-07
- **EPA docket:** EPA-HQ-OLEM-2017-0463
## Abstract

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) is adding hazardous waste aerosol cans to the universal waste program under the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) regulations. This change will benefit the wide variety of establishments generating and managing hazardous waste aerosol cans, including the retail sector, by providing a clear, protective system for managing discarded aerosol cans. The streamlined universal waste regulations are expected to ease regulatory burdens on retail stores and others that discard hazardous waste aerosol cans; promote the collection and recycling of these cans; and encourage the development of municipal and commercial programs to reduce the quantity of these wastes going to municipal solid waste landfills or combustors.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/12/09/2019-25674/increasing-recycling-adding-aerosol-cans-to-the-universal-waste-regulations)
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