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Monsanto HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT To support our commitment to protect the environment at each Monsanto location and provide for the health and safety of all who come in contact with our products. HAZARDOUS WASTE* MANAGEMENT Insure that the Corporation is postured to protect its manufacturing capability with appropriate treatment, storage, and disposal facilities for wastes generated from its operations. employed at each facility shall be selected to serve the Corporation's needs and may serve more than one manufacturing location. PRESERVATION OF HAZARDOUS WASTE FACILITIES Retain ownership of all company land known to contain wastes of such composition and quantity which have the potential for injury to health or the environment except where otherwise approved by the Environmental Policy Committee. Terminate the use of transport services or treatment, storage, or disposal facilities where health protection or environmental compliance cannot be reasonably assured. When appropriate, provide aid, counsel, and assistance to outside waste disposal operators who are disposing of waste materials in an environmentally responsible manner. SELECTION AND OPERATION OF TOTALLY OWNED FACILITIES The policy of Monsanto with respect to the preservation of its assets for hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal shall be to seek and implement feasible ways to reduce the hazardous wastes generated from its operations, and to seek and implement feasible ways.to convert hazardous wastes to usable materials. RECORDING AND CONTROLS With respect to its social responsibility in the treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous wastes generated from its operations, Monsanto will build a knowledgeable record of the disposition of hazardous wastes, and provide a management plan for the control of hazardous wastes. COMMERCIALIZATION In selecting waste disposal sites and the methods of treatment, storage and disposal employed, protection of public health, and protection of the environment, permanent environmental acceptability shall be considered. Sites shall be selected to serve the Corporation's needs and may serve more than one manufacturing location. Treatment, storage, or disposal methods With respect to commercialization of hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal, the use of company facilities to treat, store, or dispose of hazardous wastes of others is not desirable except in special circumstances which must be reviewed by the Senior Vice President, EPS, and approved by the Environmental Policy Committee. Joint ventures for the treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous wastes must be reviewed with the Senior Vice President, EPS, and approved by the Environmental Policy Committee. "Hazardous wastes" means solid wastes, or combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of. or otherwise managed. MONSANTO ENVIRONMENTAL The Environmental Policy Committee retains the right to approve any action which might ' otherwise be at variance with these policies. (Approved: Corporate Administrative Committee, October 6. 1980.) POLICY STAFF ,, , ,DSW 1X7739 STLCOPCB4032277