Hazardous waste disposal in Chattanooga, TN
Chattanooga is shaped by vehicle assembly and a long manufacturing history along the river, and what that means for waste is decided by what those processes generate and by the Tennessee program the site operates under — not by the city line on a map.
The rule in Tennessee
Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC)
Waste generated in Chattanooga is regulated by TDEC, which administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Tennessee over the federal baseline. What that adds for a Chattanooga site, and where Tennessee differs from the state next door, is set out on the state page.
Who answers, and what that means
Chattanooga 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 Chattanooga
The facility types the work around Chattanooga, TN 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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- 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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- 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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- F006
- F007
- F008 / F009
- F019
Metal Manufacturing & Plating
- Wastewater treatment sludge
- Spent cyanide plating bath solutions
- Plating bath residues and spent stripping solutions
The routes a stream can take
Collection in Chattanooga, TN 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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- Often recyclable
- F006 / D-codes
- F006
- F019
Industrial Wastewater Treatment
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- Universal waste
- Universal waste / D001
- F008 / F009
Non-Acute Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- Used oil standards
- Used oil, universal waste
Nonhazardous Waste Disposal
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- F001 - F005 / D001
- F001 - F005
RCRA Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- D001 / D007 / D008
- F001
Hazardous Waste Incineration
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- Non-regulated
- D006 / D007 / D008
Roll-Off Boxes
Asked from Chattanooga
The four things generators around Chattanooga, TN ask before anything else, answered from the rules rather than from a brochure.
Greer collects in Chattanooga, TN, dispatched from the Mobile, AL office on its own permits and its own equipment. There is no facility in Chattanooga, TN itself — Greer runs two offices, and Tennessee is covered from one of them rather than from a depot in every city that has a page.
Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Tennessee, over the federal baseline rather than instead of it. So a waste generated in Chattanooga is classified the same way it would be anywhere in the country, and the requirements around storing, moving and reporting it are Tennessee's.
An unidentified container in Chattanooga, TN 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 Chattanooga, TN 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 Chattanooga, TN, 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 Tennessee exactly as anywhere else.
Elsewhere in Tennessee
Collection across Tennessee is not limited to the places with their own page. These are simply the ones near Chattanooga, TN with enough demand to be worth writing about.
Something in Chattanooga 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.