Hazardous waste disposal in Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth is shaped by aerospace and defense manufacturing, rail and distribution, 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.
The rule in Texas
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
Waste generated in Fort Worth is regulated by TCEQ, which administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Texas over the federal baseline. What that adds for a Fort Worth site, and where Texas differs from the state next door, is set out on the state page.
Who answers, and what that means
Fort Worth 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 Fort Worth
The facility types the work around Fort Worth, 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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- 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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- 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
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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 Fort Worth, 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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- F019
- Depends on prior cargo
- F006
Industrial Wastewater Treatment
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- F006 / F007 / F009
- F007
- K062
Inorganic Acid & Caustic Waste
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- D007 / F-listed
- F001
Hazardous Waste Incineration
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- D001 / varies
- F008 / F009
Non-Acute Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- Used oil / D001
- D001 / varies
Fuels Blending Services
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- F001 - F005
- Inherited from the cargo
RCRA Hazardous Waste Disposal
Asked from Fort Worth
The four things generators around Fort Worth, TX ask before anything else, answered from the rules rather than from a brochure.
Greer collects in Fort Worth, TX, dispatched from the Mobile, AL office on its own permits and its own equipment. There is no facility in Fort Worth, 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 Fort Worth 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 Fort Worth, 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 Fort Worth, 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 Fort Worth, 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 Fort Worth, TX with enough demand to be worth writing about.
Something in Fort Worth 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.