Hazardous waste disposal in Meridian, MS
Meridian is shaped by manufacturing, rail and a naval air station, and what that means for waste is decided by what those processes generate and by the Mississippi program the site operates under — not by the city line on a map.
The rule in Mississippi
Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ)
Waste generated in Meridian is regulated by MDEQ, which administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Mississippi over the federal baseline. What that adds for a Meridian site, and where Mississippi differs from the state next door, is set out on the state page.
Who answers, and what that means
Meridian 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 Meridian
The facility types the work around Meridian, MS 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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- 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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- PFAS-bearing
- D003 / reactive
- Used oil / D001
- F001 - F005 / D008
Military
- AFFF concentrate and system rinsate
- Munitions and energetic residues
- Fuels, oils and lubricants
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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
The routes a stream can take
Collection in Meridian, MS 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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- Used oil, universal waste
- Used oil / universal waste
- Refrigerant rules apply
Nonhazardous Waste Disposal
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- Depends on the product
- Varies by commodity
Off-Spec Product Disposal
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- F001 - F005
- Inherited from the cargo
RCRA Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- F006 / D-codes
- Depends on prior cargo
Industrial Wastewater Treatment
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- Non-regulated
- Non-regulated unless contaminated
Roll-Off Boxes
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- Used oil / D001
- D001 / varies
Fuels Blending Services
Asked from Meridian
The four things generators around Meridian, MS ask before anything else, answered from the rules rather than from a brochure.
Greer collects in Meridian, MS, dispatched from the Mobile, AL office on its own permits and its own equipment. There is no facility in Meridian, MS itself — Greer runs two offices, and Mississippi is covered from one of them rather than from a depot in every city that has a page.
Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Mississippi, over the federal baseline rather than instead of it. So a waste generated in Meridian is classified the same way it would be anywhere in the country, and the requirements around storing, moving and reporting it are Mississippi's.
An unidentified container in Meridian, MS 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 Meridian, MS 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 Meridian, MS, 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 Mississippi exactly as anywhere else.
Elsewhere in Mississippi
Collection across Mississippi is not limited to the places with their own page. These are simply the ones near Meridian, MS with enough demand to be worth writing about.
Something in Meridian 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.