Hazardous waste disposal in Lake Charles, LA
Lake Charles is shaped by refining, petrochemical production and gas processing, 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 Lake Charles is regulated by LDEQ, which administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Louisiana over the federal baseline. What that adds for a Lake Charles site, and where Louisiana differs from the state next door, is set out on the state page.
Who answers, and what that means
Lake Charles is within a comfortable day of the Mobile, AL office, so scheduled collection is straightforward and a same-week response to something unexpected is usually workable — which covers most of what a generator there actually needs.
What generates it in Lake Charles
The facility types the work around Lake Charles, 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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- Generally E&P exempt
- NORM / state-regulated
- Not exempt
- Depends on origin
Oil & Gas
- Drilling fluids and cuttings
- Produced water
- NORM scale and sludge
The routes a stream can take
Collection in Lake Charles, 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
- Not exempt
RCRA Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- K048
- Counted under the benzene standard
Industrial Wastewater Treatment
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- K049
- Process-specific
Fuels Blending Services
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- K050
- Varies by unit
Roll-Off Boxes
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- Unit-dependent
- Not exempt
Non-Acute Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- D002
Caustic Recycling
Asked from Lake Charles
The four things generators around Lake Charles, LA ask before anything else, answered from the rules rather than from a brochure.
Greer collects in Lake Charles, LA, dispatched from the Mobile, AL office on its own permits and its own equipment. There is no facility in Lake Charles, 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 Lake Charles 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 Lake Charles, 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 Lake Charles, 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 Lake Charles, 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 Lake Charles, LA with enough demand to be worth writing about.
Something in Lake Charles 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.