2005 Rhode Island Code - § 23-19.1-3 — Declaration of purpose.

    The purposes of this chapter shall be:

   (1) To protect the environment and the public health and safety from the effects of the improper, inadequate, or unsound management of hazardous wastes;

   (2) To establish a program of regulation over the storage, transportation, treatment, and disposal of hazardous wastes, without interrupting current regulation of industrial waste disposal;

   (3) To encourage the development and utilization of industrial processes which generate smaller amounts of hazardous wastes and to encourage recovery and recycling of wastes; and

   (4) To assure the safe and adequate management of hazardous wastes within Rhode Island.