Hazardous waste disposal in Arlington, TX
Arlington is shaped by vehicle assembly and its supplier base between the two cities, and what that means for waste is decided by what those processes generate and by the Texas program the site operates under — not by the city line on a map.
Served as part of Dallas
A generator in Arlington is collected on the same routing as the wider Dallas 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 Texas
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
Waste generated in Arlington is regulated by TCEQ, which administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Texas over the federal baseline. What that adds for an Arlington site, and where Texas differs from the state next door, is set out on the state page.
Who answers, and what that means
Arlington 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 Arlington
The facility types the work around Arlington, TX 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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- Used oil standards
- F001 - F005 / D001
- Universal waste
- D001 / D007 / D008
Automotive
- Used oil and oil filters
- Parts washer solvent
- Lead-acid and lithium batteries
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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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- F006
- F007
- F008 / F009
- F019
Metal Manufacturing & Plating
- Wastewater treatment sludge
- Spent cyanide plating bath solutions
- Plating bath residues and spent stripping solutions
The routes a stream can take
Collection in Arlington, TX 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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- Often recyclable
- F006 / D-codes
- F006
- F019
Industrial Wastewater Treatment
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- Universal waste
- Universal waste / D001
- F008 / F009
Non-Acute Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- Used oil standards
- Used oil, universal waste
Nonhazardous Waste Disposal
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- F001 - F005 / D001
- F001 - F005
RCRA Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- D001 / D007 / D008
- F001
Hazardous Waste Incineration
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- Non-regulated
- D006 / D007 / D008
Roll-Off Boxes
Asked from Arlington
The four things generators around Arlington, TX ask before anything else, answered from the rules rather than from a brochure.
Greer collects in Arlington, TX, dispatched from the Mobile, AL office on its own permits and its own equipment. There is no facility in Arlington, TX itself — Greer runs two offices, and Texas is covered from one of them rather than from a depot in every city that has a page.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Texas, over the federal baseline rather than instead of it. So a waste generated in Arlington is classified the same way it would be anywhere in the country, and the requirements around storing, moving and reporting it are Texas's.
An unidentified container in Arlington, TX 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 Arlington, TX 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 Arlington, TX, 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 Texas exactly as anywhere else.
Elsewhere in Texas
Collection across Texas is not limited to the places with their own page. These are simply the ones near Arlington, TX with enough demand to be worth writing about.
Something in Arlington 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.