Hazardous Waste Disposal News & Resources

Pharmaceutical waste was one of the most awkward fits in the traditional hazardous waste rules. Hospitals and pharmacies generate small...

Mercury turns up across ordinary commercial buildings, mostly in places nobody thinks about. Fluorescent tubes, compact fluorescent lamps, high-intensity discharge...

Paint waste shows up in more businesses than people expect. Contractors, manufacturers, auto body shops, property managers, schools, municipalities, and...

Used oil is generated by almost every business with vehicles, machinery, or hydraulic equipment. Fleet operators, repair shops, manufacturers, construction...

Aerosol cans are one of the most common hazardous waste streams in American businesses, and one of the most commonly...

Universal waste is one of the few places in environmental regulation where the compliant path is also the cheaper one....

Laboratory waste breaks the assumptions behind most hazardous waste programs. Industrial waste tends to be a few streams in large...

The Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifest is the document that follows a shipment of hazardous waste from your dock to its...

Generator status is the single variable that sets almost everything else about your hazardous waste program. It determines how long...

Accumulation violations are among the most frequently cited findings in RCRA inspections, and they are almost never the result of...

Batteries are the fastest-growing waste stream in most facilities and the one most likely to cause an actual emergency. Every...

Solvent waste is the stream most facilities think they understand and most often manage incorrectly. The usual assumption is that...

Almost every serious RCRA violation traces back to the same starting point: somebody decided a waste stream was not hazardous,...