Hazardous waste disposal in New Orleans, LA
New Orleans is shaped by a major river port with shipyards, chemical handling and a large healthcare sector, 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 New Orleans is regulated by LDEQ, which administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Louisiana over the federal baseline. What that adds for a New Orleans site, and where Louisiana differs from the state next door, is set out on the state page.
Who answers, and what that means
New Orleans 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 New Orleans to look at a container nobody can identify without that being a special arrangement.
What generates it in New Orleans
The facility types the work around New Orleans, 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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- D008 / D007
- D001 / F003 / F005
- Oily water
- F001 - F005
Shipbuilding
- Spent abrasive blast media
- Paints, coatings and thinners
- Bilge, ballast and tank cleaning water
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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
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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 New Orleans, 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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- Oily water
- Inherited from the feed
- Depends on prior cargo
Industrial Wastewater Treatment
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- D001 / F003 / F005
- F-listed / K-listed
Hazardous Waste Incineration
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- F001 - F005
- Inherited from the cargo
RCRA Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- Metal-dependent
- Process-specific
Non-Acute Hazardous Waste Disposal
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- F001 - F005
- D001 / varies
Fuels Blending Services
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- Varies by formulation
- Varies by commodity
Off-Spec Product Disposal
Asked from New Orleans
The four things generators around New Orleans, LA ask before anything else, answered from the rules rather than from a brochure.
Greer collects in New Orleans, LA, dispatched from the Mobile, AL office on its own permits and its own equipment. There is no facility in New Orleans, 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 New Orleans 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 New Orleans, 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 New Orleans, 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 New Orleans, 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 New Orleans, LA with enough demand to be worth writing about.
Something in New Orleans 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.