Waste Management Program Profile

Vision: To assure Floridians that their health and their environment are being protected through prevention and reduction of pollution and the proper management of waste and hazardous substances.

Mission: To protect public health and the environment through promotion of waste management practices that prevent or reduce waste generation, ensure proper management when waste generation cannot be prevented, prevent discharges of chemicals and petroleum products contained in storage tank systems, and ensure adequate and timely cleanup of the environment from contamination caused by discharges of hazardous substances and petroleum products. Most of the people in waste management are specialists in a scientific or engineering field, such as geology, chemistry, biology, civil engineering, environmental engineering or chemical engineering.

• Technical competence, training and experience. 
• The use of the best available scientific and technical information, and the management, exchange and transferring of this information by use of current data management technologies.
• Treating the public with courtesy and professionalism and taking all reasonable steps to ensure and consider input from the public and regulated communities.
• Retaining highly trained, experienced and enthusiastic employees, and consideration of their suggestions and viewpoints in the agency’s decision making processes.

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The Northeast District's
Waste Management Division