All Disasters and Hazards
Material and waste management is a critical part of the response and recovery to disasters and hazards:
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The image starts with Resilience, which is divided into pre-incident and incident pillars. The pre-incident pillar shows that this is the time when a pre-incident waste (or debris) management plan should be developed. The plan should document requirements, waste types, waste quantities, waste management strategies, waste management facilities, tracking and reporting, oversight, and community outreach. The image shows the plan is then applied during the response and recovery phases of an incident, ending with long-term recovery.
The incident can also be viewed as beginning with emergency response, which falls within the disaster response phase, continuing with cleanup, which begins in the disaster response phase and continues to the recovery phase, and ending with reuse, which begins in the disaster recovery phase and continues through long-term recovery. The image also shows that crime scene investigation can occur during the response phase and that characterization, then decontamination, and then remediation activities can occur during the response and recovery phases, including long-term recovery, while clearance activities typically take place during long term recovery. All these activities generate materials that require management, which means that waste management operations take place from the beginning of the incident’s response through the end of its long-term recovery.
The image lists the types of materials that each of these activities may generate that will then need to be managed, organized by disaster phase. The materials generated that require management during crime scene investigation include personal protective equipment (PPE), samples, evidence, and equipment. The materials generated that require management during characterization include PPE, samples, equipment decontamination residuals (EDRs), and personal decontamination residuals (PDRs). The materials generated that require management during decontamination include PPE, samples, EDRs, PDRs, building materials, decontamination wastes and residuals, and treatment wastes. The materials generated that require management during remediation include PPE, samples, EDRs, PDRs, building materials, remediation wastes and residuals, and treatment wastes. The materials generated that require management during clearance include PPE, samples, and equipment.