Hazardous waste disposal in Shreveport, LA
Shreveport is shaped by manufacturing, oilfield activity and distribution in the north of the state, and what that means for waste is decided by what those processes generate and by the Louisiana program the site operates under — not by the city line on a map.
The rule in Louisiana
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ)
Waste generated in Shreveport is regulated by LDEQ, which administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Louisiana over the federal baseline. What that adds for a Shreveport site, and where Louisiana differs from the state next door, is set out on the state page.
Who answers, and what that means
Shreveport 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 Shreveport
The facility types the work around Shreveport, LA 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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- Generally E&P exempt
- NORM / state-regulated
- Not exempt
- Depends on origin
Oil & Gas
- Drilling fluids and cuttings
- Produced water
- NORM scale and sludge
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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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- Used oil / universal waste
- Inherited from the cargo
- Depends on prior cargo
- Varies by commodity
Transportation
- Fleet maintenance waste
- Spill response residues
- Tank and trailer wash residues
The routes a stream can take
Collection in Shreveport, LA 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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- Generally E&P exempt
- Used oil, universal waste
- Used oil / universal waste
- Refrigerant rules apply
Nonhazardous Waste Disposal
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- Not exempt
- F001 - F005
- Inherited from the cargo
RCRA Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- Depends on the product
- Varies by commodity
Off-Spec Product Disposal
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- F006 / D-codes
- Depends on prior cargo
Industrial Wastewater Treatment
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- Generally E&P exempt
Deep Well Injection
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- NORM / state-regulated
NORM Waste Disposal
Asked from Shreveport
The four things generators around Shreveport, LA ask before anything else, answered from the rules rather than from a brochure.
Greer collects in Shreveport, LA, dispatched from the Mobile, AL office on its own permits and its own equipment. There is no facility in Shreveport, LA itself — Greer runs two offices, and Louisiana is covered from one of them rather than from a depot in every city that has a page.
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Louisiana, over the federal baseline rather than instead of it. So a waste generated in Shreveport is classified the same way it would be anywhere in the country, and the requirements around storing, moving and reporting it are Louisiana's.
An unidentified container in Shreveport, LA 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 Shreveport, LA 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 Shreveport, LA, 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 Louisiana exactly as anywhere else.
Elsewhere in Louisiana
Collection across Louisiana is not limited to the places with their own page. These are simply the ones near Shreveport, LA with enough demand to be worth writing about.
Something in Shreveport 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.