Hazardous waste disposal in Texas
Texas is the state where the federal waste codes are not the whole answer. TCEQ operates its own industrial and hazardous waste classification alongside the EPA system, so a stream that is fully characterized for federal purposes still needs a Texas code before it is properly described in Texas.
Texas is one of 8 states served.
Two coding systems, one stream
A generator in Texas describes an industrial solid waste with a state waste code as well as any federal EPA waste codes that apply — a sequence number identifying the stream, a form code for its physical form, and a classification indicating whether it is hazardous or, if not, which class of non-hazardous waste it is. The federal codes say what the material is under RCRA; the Texas code says what it is on the state's register. The consequence is that a company moving into Texas from one of the other states on this map, with correct and complete federal profiles, still has registration and coding work to do — and that non-hazardous industrial waste, which is barely a regulatory event in some states, is something Texas expects to be classified.
TCEQ
Who writes the rule in Texas
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
TCEQ administers Texas's authorized hazardous waste program, and also operates a state industrial and hazardous waste registration and coding system that runs alongside the federal one.
TCEQ rules sit over the federal baseline rather than replacing it, so a waste is classified the same way in Texas as anywhere else and the requirements around it are not. A permit that satisfies TCEQ is not automatically the one the next state asks to see.
Where Greer collects in Texas
8 cities in Texas have their own pages, and collection across Texas is not limited to them.
What generates it here
The facility types this work most often comes from in Texas, each with its own page describing what that process produces and under which codes.
Who answers the phone
Two dispatch offices cover the whole map, and which of them takes a job in Texas is a question of distance rather than of paperwork.
Asked across Texas
What generators operating in Texas ask before anything is priced, answered from the rules rather than from a brochure.
Both. TCEQ administers an authorized program, which means Texas runs hazardous waste regulation itself rather than the federal government doing it there. The federal rules are the floor: a waste is classified the same way in Texas as anywhere, and TCEQ can be — and in places is — more demanding about what happens next.
Not automatically. Each site is a separate generator with its own identification number and its own monthly count, and a permit or registration that satisfies TCEQ is not by itself the one the neighboring regulator asks to see. What does travel is the transporter: Greer holds its own permits across all eight states, so one company is on the manifest whether the load starts in Texas or across the line.
It depends where in Texas the site is, and the honest answer differs across Texas rather than being one number: Greer dispatches from Mobile, AL and Tampa, FL, each Texas city page below says which of them covers it, and a planned route and a same-region response are different services that should not be quoted as one.
The generator makes the hazardous waste determination and signs the manifest — that responsibility does not transfer, in Texas or anywhere else. What Greer does is the work behind it: the characterization, the profile, the codes, the notifications and the records that TCEQ expects to see, produced so that they hold up when someone asks for them.
Something in Texas that needs identifying?
Describe the process that made it and roughly how much there is. A Certified Hazardous Materials Manager reads every request.