Hazardous waste disposal in Auburn, AL
Auburn is shaped by a large university with research laboratories, and an automotive supplier cluster, and what that means for waste is decided by what those processes generate and by the Alabama program the site operates under — not by the city line on a map.
The rule in Alabama
Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM)
Waste generated in Auburn is regulated by ADEM, which administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Alabama over the federal baseline. What that adds for an Auburn site, and where Alabama differs from the state next door, is set out on the state page.
Who answers, and what that means
Auburn is within a comfortable day of the Mobile, AL office, so scheduled collection is straightforward and a same-week response to something unexpected is usually workable — which covers most of what a generator there actually needs.
What generates it in Auburn
The facility types the work around Auburn, AL usually comes from, each with its own page on what that process produces and under which codes — the part that decides a price.
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- Many, in small volumes
- Characterization required
- D001 / D008
- Varies
Educational Institutions
- Teaching laboratory chemicals
- Legacy and inherited chemical stock
- Art studio and theater waste
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- Used oil standards
- F001 - F005 / D001
- Universal waste
- D001 / D007 / D008
Automotive
- Used oil and oil filters
- Parts washer solvent
- Lead-acid and lithium batteries
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- P-list
- F001 - F005 / D001
- D001 / D002
- Determined by characterization
Analytical Laboratories
- Acutely hazardous reagents and their rinsate
- Spent solvents and extraction waste
- Acids, bases and oxidizers
The routes a stream can take
Collection in Auburn, AL is the easy half — where a stream goes afterwards is decided by its codes and by the Land Disposal Restrictions rather than by preference.
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- Varies
- Universal waste
- Universal waste / D001
Non-Acute Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- Many, in small volumes
- Determined by characterization
Lab Pack Services
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- Characterization required
- P-list
Acute Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- D001 / D008
- F001 - F005 / D001
RCRA Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- D001 / D007 / D008
- F001 - F005 / D001
Hazardous Waste Incineration
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- Universal waste
Electronic Waste Disposal
Asked from Auburn
The four things generators around Auburn, AL ask before anything else, answered from the rules rather than from a brochure.
Greer collects in Auburn, AL, dispatched from the Mobile, AL office on its own permits and its own equipment. There is no facility in Auburn, AL itself — Greer runs two offices, and Alabama is covered from one of them rather than from a depot in every city that has a page.
Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Alabama, over the federal baseline rather than instead of it. So a waste generated in Auburn is classified the same way it would be anywhere in the country, and the requirements around storing, moving and reporting it are Alabama's.
An unidentified container in Auburn, AL is a smaller problem this week than it is next year, so the first thing is to leave it alone: do not move it, and do not open it if anything has crystallized around the cap. Tell the Mobile, AL office where on the Auburn, AL site it came from and what the process beside it does, and identification is arranged before collection rather than after.
No — for a site in Auburn, AL, describing the process that makes the waste and roughly how much of it there is gets you a price. A Certified Hazardous Materials Manager profiles it from that, which is the work you are buying, and guessing a code yourself only transfers the liability for it back to you, in Alabama exactly as anywhere else.
Elsewhere in Alabama
Collection across Alabama is not limited to the places with their own page. These are simply the ones near Auburn, AL with enough demand to be worth writing about.
Something in Auburn that needs identifying?
Describe the process that made it and roughly how much there is — Mobile, AL takes the call, and a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager reads every request before anyone quotes it.