Hazardous waste disposal in San Antonio, TX
San Antonio is shaped by a large military presence, healthcare and manufacturing, 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 San Antonio is regulated by TCEQ, which administers the authorized hazardous waste program for Texas over the federal baseline. What that adds for a San Antonio site, and where Texas differs from the state next door, is set out on the state page.
Who answers, and what that means
San Antonio 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 San Antonio
The facility types the work around San Antonio, 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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- 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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- Subpart P
- P-list
- Listed or trace, by drug
- State-regulated
Healthcare, Biotech & Pharmaceutical
- Hazardous waste pharmaceuticals
- Acutely hazardous pharmaceuticals
- Chemotherapy and trace-contaminated waste
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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
The routes a stream can take
Collection in San Antonio, 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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- F001 - F005 / D008
- Listed or trace, by drug
Hazardous Waste Incineration
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- Non-regulated unless contaminated
- Non-regulated
Roll-Off Boxes
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- F-list / D-codes
- Many, in small volumes
Lab Pack Services
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- PFAS-bearing
PFAS / AFFF Waste Disposal
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- D003 / reactive
Explosive Waste Disposal
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- Used oil / D001
Fuels Blending Services
Asked from San Antonio
The four things generators around San Antonio, TX ask before anything else, answered from the rules rather than from a brochure.
Greer collects in San Antonio, TX, dispatched from the Mobile, AL office on its own permits and its own equipment. There is no facility in San Antonio, 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 San Antonio 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 San Antonio, 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 San Antonio, 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 San Antonio, 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 San Antonio, TX with enough demand to be worth writing about.
Something in San Antonio 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.