ABSTRACT
An ethic might be viewed as any set of values shared by a group, such as a community, church, society or profession. The acceptance of a shared set of values presumably tends to benefit everyone by reducing tensions and conflicts and encouraging trust and security. Also in this country, it is the custom for engineering and other contracts to be awarded partly on the basis of bribes. Engineers generally are quite cognizant of the secondary impacts of their decisions, and take them into account in the formulation of the solutions to problems. Teaching ethics is the exact opposite of mind control; it is the unshackling of the mind and making it free to understand other ideas and other values. Ethical considerations in hazardous waste management should not be of fered as a separate, ancillary, and often optional topic, but as part of the study of techniques of secure landfill or the analysis and identification of wastes.
