Hazardous waste disposal in Baton Rouge, LA
Baton Rouge is shaped by the upper end of the refining and petrochemical corridor, plus state government, 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 Baton Rouge is regulated by LDEQ, which administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Louisiana over the federal baseline. What that adds for a Baton Rouge site, and where Louisiana differs from the state next door, is set out on the state page.
Who answers, and what that means
Baton Rouge 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 Baton Rouge to look at a container nobody can identify without that being a special arrangement.
What generates it in Baton Rouge
The facility types the work around Baton Rouge, 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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- K051
- K048
- K049
- K050
Refineries
- API separator sludge
- Dissolved air flotation float
- Slop oil emulsion solids
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- Counted under the benzene standard
- Metals-dependent
- Process-specific
- D002
Petrochemical Manufacturing
- Benzene-bearing aqueous waste
- Spent catalyst
- Tank bottoms and heavy ends
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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 Baton Rouge, 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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- K051
- K052
- Metals-dependent
RCRA Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- K048
- Counted under the benzene standard
- Inherited from the feed
Industrial Wastewater Treatment
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- K049
- Process-specific
- F001 - F005
Fuels Blending Services
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- K050
- Varies by unit
Roll-Off Boxes
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- Unit-dependent
- Process-specific
Non-Acute Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- Recoverable in many cases
- Varies by formulation
Off-Spec Product Disposal
Asked from Baton Rouge
The four things generators around Baton Rouge, LA ask before anything else, answered from the rules rather than from a brochure.
Greer collects in Baton Rouge, LA, dispatched from the Mobile, AL office on its own permits and its own equipment. There is no facility in Baton Rouge, 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 Baton Rouge 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 Baton Rouge, 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 Baton Rouge, 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 Baton Rouge, 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 Baton Rouge, LA with enough demand to be worth writing about.
Something in Baton Rouge 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.