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Hazardous waste disposal in Fort Lauderdale, FL

Fort Lauderdale is shaped by marine and yacht services, aviation maintenance and a dense commercial base, and what that means for waste is decided by what those processes generate and by the Florida program the site operates under — not by the city line on a map.

The rule in Florida

Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP)

Waste generated in Fort Lauderdale is regulated by FDEP, which administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Florida over the federal baseline. What that adds for a Fort Lauderdale site, and where Florida differs from the state next door, is set out on the state page.

What applies across Florida

Who answers, and what that means

Tampa, FL 17401 Commerce Park Blvd., Ste. 103, Tampa, FL 33647 833-670-2200

Fort Lauderdale is a planned-collection distance from the Tampa, FL 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 Fort Lauderdale

The facility types the work around Fort Lauderdale, FL usually comes from, each with its own page on what that process produces and under which codes — the part that decides a price.

    • D008 / D007
    • D001 / F003 / F005
    • Oily water
    • F001 - F005

    Shipbuilding

    • Spent abrasive blast media
    • Paints, coatings and thinners
    • Bilge, ballast and tank cleaning water
    • F019
    • D007 / F-listed
    • F006 / F007 / F009
    • D001 / varies

    Aerospace

    • Conversion coating treatment sludge
    • Spent paint stripper and removed coating
    • Plating and strip tank solutions
    • Subpart P
    • P-list
    • Listed or trace, by drug
    • State-regulated

    Healthcare, Biotech & Pharmaceutical

    • Hazardous waste pharmaceuticals
    • Acutely hazardous pharmaceuticals
    • Chemotherapy and trace-contaminated waste

The routes a stream can take

Collection in Fort Lauderdale, FL is the easy half — where a stream goes afterwards is decided by its codes and by the Land Disposal Restrictions rather than by preference.

Asked from Fort Lauderdale

The four things generators around Fort Lauderdale, FL ask before anything else, answered from the rules rather than from a brochure.

Greer collects in Fort Lauderdale, FL, dispatched from the Tampa, FL office on its own permits and its own equipment. There is no facility in Fort Lauderdale, FL itself — Greer runs two offices, and Florida is covered from one of them rather than from a depot in every city that has a page.

Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Florida, over the federal baseline rather than instead of it. So a waste generated in Fort Lauderdale is classified the same way it would be anywhere in the country, and the requirements around storing, moving and reporting it are Florida's.

An unidentified container in Fort Lauderdale, FL 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 Tampa, FL office where on the Fort Lauderdale, FL 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 Fort Lauderdale, FL, 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 Florida exactly as anywhere else.

Something in Fort Lauderdale that needs identifying?

Describe the process that made it and roughly how much there is — Tampa, FL takes the call, and a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager reads every request before anyone quotes it.