Hazardous waste disposal in Huntsville, AL
Huntsville is shaped by aerospace, defense and research, with the precision manufacturing that supports them, 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 Huntsville is regulated by ADEM, which administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Alabama over the federal baseline. What that adds for a Huntsville site, and where Alabama differs from the state next door, is set out on the state page.
Who answers, and what that means
Huntsville 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 Huntsville
The facility types the work around Huntsville, 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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- 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
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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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- 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 Huntsville, 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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- D007 / F-listed
- F001 - F005 / D008
- F001 - F005 / D001
Hazardous Waste Incineration
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- F006 / F007 / F009
- D001 / D002
Inorganic Acid & Caustic Waste
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- F019
Industrial Wastewater Treatment
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- D001 / varies
Non-Acute Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- Used oil / D001
Fuels Blending Services
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- F001 - F005
RCRA Hazardous Waste Disposal
Asked from Huntsville
The four things generators around Huntsville, AL ask before anything else, answered from the rules rather than from a brochure.
Greer collects in Huntsville, AL, dispatched from the Mobile, AL office on its own permits and its own equipment. There is no facility in Huntsville, 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 Huntsville 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 Huntsville, 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 Huntsville, 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 Huntsville, 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 Huntsville, AL with enough demand to be worth writing about.
Something in Huntsville 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.