Hazardous waste disposal in Biloxi, MS
Biloxi is shaped by hospitality at scale, marine services and an air base, and what that means for waste is decided by what those processes generate and by the Mississippi program the site operates under — not by the city line on a map.
The rule in Mississippi
Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ)
Waste generated in Biloxi is regulated by MDEQ, which administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Mississippi over the federal baseline. What that adds for a Biloxi site, and where Mississippi differs from the state next door, is set out on the state page.
Who answers, and what that means
Biloxi sits in the same region as the Mobile, AL office, which is the shortest answer Greer can give anywhere — someone can be on site in Biloxi to look at a container nobody can identify without that being a special arrangement.
What generates it in Biloxi
The facility types the work around Biloxi, MS 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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- PFAS-bearing
- D003 / reactive
- Used oil / D001
- F001 - F005 / D008
Military
- AFFF concentrate and system rinsate
- Munitions and energetic residues
- Fuels, oils and lubricants
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- D002
- Many, in small volumes
- Usually non-hazardous
- Used oil / F-listed
Food Manufacturing
- Clean-in-place caustic and acid concentrates
- Quality-control laboratory chemicals
- Expired, recalled and off-spec product
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- D008 / D007
- D001 / F003 / F005
- Oily water
- F001 - F005
Shipbuilding
- Spent abrasive blast media
- Paints, coatings and thinners
- Bilge, ballast and tank cleaning water
The routes a stream can take
Collection in Biloxi, MS 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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- F001 - F005 / D008
- D001 / F003 / F005
Hazardous Waste Incineration
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- Non-regulated unless contaminated
- Non-regulated
Roll-Off Boxes
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- Used oil / F-listed
- F001 - F005
RCRA Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- Non-hazardous in most cases
- Oily water
Industrial Wastewater Treatment
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- PFAS-bearing
PFAS / AFFF Waste Disposal
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- D003 / reactive
Explosive Waste Disposal
Asked from Biloxi
The four things generators around Biloxi, MS ask before anything else, answered from the rules rather than from a brochure.
Greer collects in Biloxi, MS, dispatched from the Mobile, AL office on its own permits and its own equipment. There is no facility in Biloxi, MS itself — Greer runs two offices, and Mississippi is covered from one of them rather than from a depot in every city that has a page.
Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Mississippi, over the federal baseline rather than instead of it. So a waste generated in Biloxi is classified the same way it would be anywhere in the country, and the requirements around storing, moving and reporting it are Mississippi's.
An unidentified container in Biloxi, MS 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 Biloxi, MS 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 Biloxi, MS, 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 Mississippi exactly as anywhere else.
Elsewhere in Mississippi
Collection across Mississippi is not limited to the places with their own page. These are simply the ones near Biloxi, MS with enough demand to be worth writing about.
Something in Biloxi 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.