By David Edelstein (December 18, 2017, 1:26 PM EST) -- Ohio will soon join Texas and New Jersey as the only states to regulate "paint and paint-related waste" as a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act universal waste. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's universal waste regulations are a set of streamlined regulations within the RCRA affording a less onerous standard of care for certain hazardous wastes that are commonly generated by a wide variety of industries. The federal universal waste regulations cover batteries, pesticides, mercury-containing equipment and lamps (most commonly, but not limited to, florescent lamps). Federal law permits states to add additional universal wastes without those wastes being first added at the federal level. Texas added paint and paint-related waste to its list of state-specific universal wastes in 2001, closely followed by New Jersey in 2002. No other state has followed suit since; but Ohio could set the trend....
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