Hazardous waste disposal in Madison, AL
Madison is shaped by research and light manufacturing in the same corridor, 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.
Served as part of Huntsville
A generator in Madison is collected on the same routing as the wider Huntsville area rather than as a separate territory, which is worth saying plainly because it is what actually decides scheduling and price. It also means the practical answer to most questions here is the same as it is a few miles away.
The rule in Alabama
Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM)
Waste generated in Madison is regulated by ADEM, which administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Alabama over the federal baseline. What that adds for a Madison site, and where Alabama differs from the state next door, is set out on the state page.
Who answers, and what that means
Madison 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 Madison
The facility types the work around Madison, 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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- 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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- 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
The routes a stream can take
Collection in Madison, 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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- F019
- F006 / D-codes
Industrial Wastewater Treatment
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- D007 / F-listed
- F001 - F005 / D001
Hazardous Waste Incineration
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- F006 / F007 / F009
- D001 / D002
Inorganic Acid & Caustic Waste
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- Determined by characterization
- Many, in small volumes
Lab Pack Services
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- D001 / varies
Non-Acute Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- Used oil / D001
Fuels Blending Services
Asked from Madison
The four things generators around Madison, AL ask before anything else, answered from the rules rather than from a brochure.
Greer collects in Madison, AL, dispatched from the Mobile, AL office on its own permits and its own equipment. There is no facility in Madison, 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 Madison 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 Madison, 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 Madison, 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 Madison, 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 Madison, AL with enough demand to be worth writing about.
Something in Madison 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.