Hazardous waste disposal in Austin, TX
Austin is shaped by state government, semiconductor and electronics manufacturing, and university research, and what that means for waste is decided by what those processes generate and by the Texas program the site operates under — not by the city line on a map.
The rule in Texas
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
Waste generated in Austin is regulated by TCEQ, which administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Texas over the federal baseline. What that adds for an Austin site, and where Texas differs from the state next door, is set out on the state page.
Who answers, and what that means
Austin is a planned-collection distance from the Mobile, AL office rather than a drop-everything one, which makes a scheduled route with consolidation the sensible pattern here — a site that plans its removals gets both better service and a better price than one calling when a drum is already past its date.
What generates it in Austin
The facility types the work around Austin, TX 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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- Depends on the product
- F001 - F005
- F006 / D-codes
- Many, in small volumes
Manufacturing
- Production scrap and off-spec product
- Spent solvents from parts washing
- Wastewater treatment sludge
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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
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- Excluded, with conditions
- Used oil / universal waste
- D002 / varies
- Pesticide-dependent
Government
- Household hazardous waste from collection events
- Fleet and public works maintenance
- Water and wastewater treatment chemicals
The routes a stream can take
Collection in Austin, TX 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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- Many, in small volumes
- Determined by characterization
- Excluded, with conditions
Lab Pack Services
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- F006 / D-codes
- D002 / varies
Industrial Wastewater Treatment
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- Used oil, universal waste
- Used oil / universal waste
Nonhazardous Waste Disposal
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- P-list
- Characterization first
Acute Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- Depends on the product
Off-Spec Product Disposal
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- F001 - F005
RCRA Hazardous Waste Disposal
Asked from Austin
The four things generators around Austin, TX ask before anything else, answered from the rules rather than from a brochure.
Greer collects in Austin, TX, dispatched from the Mobile, AL office on its own permits and its own equipment. There is no facility in Austin, TX itself — Greer runs two offices, and Texas is covered from one of them rather than from a depot in every city that has a page.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Texas, over the federal baseline rather than instead of it. So a waste generated in Austin is classified the same way it would be anywhere in the country, and the requirements around storing, moving and reporting it are Texas's.
An unidentified container in Austin, TX 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 Austin, TX 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 Austin, TX, 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 Texas exactly as anywhere else.
Elsewhere in Texas
Collection across Texas is not limited to the places with their own page. These are simply the ones near Austin, TX with enough demand to be worth writing about.
Something in Austin 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.