N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 27-0105

§ 27-0105. Preferred statewide hazardous waste management practices\n hierarchy.\n It is hereby declared that the following preferred hazardous waste\nmanagement practices hierarchy is to be used to guide all hazardous\nwaste policies and decisions:\n a. The generation of hazardous wastes is to be reduced or eliminated\nto the maximum extent practical;\n b. Hazardous wastes that continue to be generated are to be recovered,\nreused or recycled to the maximum extent practical;\n c. Detoxification, treatment or destruction technologies are to be\nutilized for hazardous wastes which cannot be reduced, recovered, reused\nor recycled; and\n d. Land disposal of industrial hazardous wastes, except treated\nresiduals posing no significant threat to the public health or to the\nenvironment, should be phased out as it is the least preferable method\nof industrial hazardous waste management.\n