Hazardous waste disposal in Mobile, AL
Mobile is shaped by a deep-water port with shipbuilding, aerospace assembly and chemical production around it, 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 Mobile is regulated by ADEM, which administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Alabama over the federal baseline. What that adds for a Mobile site, and where Alabama differs from the state next door, is set out on the state page.
Who answers, and what that means
Mobile 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 Mobile to look at a container nobody can identify without that being a special arrangement.
What generates it in Mobile
The facility types the work around Mobile, 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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- D008 / D007
- D001 / F003 / F005
- Oily water
- F001 - F005
Shipbuilding
- Spent abrasive blast media
- Paints, coatings and thinners
- Bilge, ballast and tank cleaning water
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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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- F-listed / K-listed
- Process-specific
- F001 - F005
- Varies by formulation
Chemical Manufacturing
- Still bottoms and distillation residues
- Reactor residues and vessel cleanout
- Spent solvents
The routes a stream can take
Collection in Mobile, 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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- D001 / F003 / F005
- D007 / F-listed
- F-listed / K-listed
Hazardous Waste Incineration
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- Oily water
- F019
- Inherited from the feed
Industrial Wastewater Treatment
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- Metal-dependent
- D001 / varies
- Process-specific
Non-Acute Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- Used oil / D001
- F001 - F005
Fuels Blending Services
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- D008 / D007
End Dump Trailers
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- F001 - F005
RCRA Hazardous Waste Disposal
Asked from Mobile
The four things generators around Mobile, AL ask before anything else, answered from the rules rather than from a brochure.
Greer collects in Mobile, AL, dispatched from the Mobile, AL office on its own permits and its own equipment. There is no facility in Mobile, 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 Mobile 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 Mobile, 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 Mobile, 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 Mobile, 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 Mobile, AL with enough demand to be worth writing about.
Something in Mobile 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.