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RCRA Solid Waste (Subtitle D): Includes garbage, refuse, sludge, and other discarded materials from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations. This covers non-hazardous industrial and municipal waste.

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RCRA Solid and Hazardous Wastes

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1. Reactive Waste

Any garbage, refuse, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material, resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations and from community activities.These characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).Listed waste code for Corrosive WasteThis is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.

2. C

Listed waste code for Corrosive WasteAny garbage, refuse, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material, resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations and from community activities.This is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.These characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).

3. Universal Waste

Listed waste code for Corrosive WasteThese characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).This is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.Any garbage, refuse, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material, resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations and from community activities.

4. Solid Waste

This is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.Listed waste code for Corrosive WasteAny garbage, refuse, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material, resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations and from community activities.These characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).

5. Ignitable Waste

This represents the ability of the waste to burn. These characteristic wastes include liquid wastes if their flash point is less than 140 degrees F. Some non-liquids, flammable gases and certain oxidizers also have this characteristic.These characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).Listed waste code for Corrosive WasteThis is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.

6. Toxic Waste

These characteristic wastes are harmful if ingested, inhaled or absorbed through the skin. They have hazardous constituents that may leach out of the waste. They include any waste that may release or leach any of 39 specified heavy metals, pesticides or other organic chemicals above their regulatory level concentrations (e.g., benzene, carbon tetrachloride, chromium, Chlordane, Endrin, lead, mercury).These characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).Listed waste code for Corrosive WasteThis is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.

7. Industrial Waste

A subset of solid waste defined as waste generated by manufacturing or industrial processes that are not a hazardous waste.These characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).Listed waste code for Corrosive WasteThis is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.

8. Characteristic wastes and Listed wastes

This is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.What are the two categories of hazardous wastesThese characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).Listed waste code for Corrosive Waste

9. Waste Code D001

Ignitable characteristic waste codeListed waste code for Corrosive WasteThese characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).This is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.

10. I

Listed waste code for Ignitable WasteThis is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.Listed waste code for Corrosive WasteThese characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).

11. Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities TSDF

Listed waste code for Corrosive WasteThese characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).These facilities provide temporary storage and final treatment or disposal for hazardous wastes, and establish generic facility management standards, specific provisions governing hazardous waste management units, and additional precautions designed to protect soil, ground water and air resources.This is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.

12. Waste Code D003

Reactive characteristic waste codeThese characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).This is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.Listed waste code for Corrosive Waste

13. Waste Code D002

Listed waste code for Corrosive WasteCorrosive characteristic waste codeThese characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).This is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.

14. T

Listed waste code for Corrosive WasteThis is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.Listed waste code for Toxic WasteThese characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).

15. K List (K001-K178)

These characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).This is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.These listed wastes typically come from specific sources such as industrial processes like wood preserving, manufacturing pesticides, organic chemicals and veterinary drugs.Listed waste code for Corrosive Waste

16. Ignitable, corrosive, reactive, and toxic wastes

This is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.These characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).Listed waste code for Corrosive WasteWhat are the four characteristic hazardous waste classifications

17. Municipal Solid Waste

These characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).This is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.Listed waste code for Corrosive WasteA subset of solid waste and is defined as durable goods, such as appliances, tires, and batteries; nondurable goods; containers and packaging, food wastes, yard trimmings, and miscellaneous organic wastes from residential, commercial, and industrial sources

18. F List (F001-F039)

Listed waste code for Corrosive WasteThese listed wastes come from non-specific sources and typically include certain spent solvents, paint thinners, brake and carburetor cleaners, vapor degreasing and dry cleaning solvents, electroplating wastes, and manufacturing and process wastes.These characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).This is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.

19. Hazardous Waste

These characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).This is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.Listed waste code for Corrosive WasteA waste with properties that make it dangerous or capable of having a harmful effect on human health or the environment. It can include, liquids, solids, gases, and sludges.

20. Listed Waste

These are wastes from common manufacturing and industrial processes, specific industries and can be generated from discarded commercial products. These are chemicals that have been explicitly identified as hazardous.This is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.These characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).Listed waste code for Corrosive Waste

21. R

These characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).This is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.Listed waste code for Corrosive WasteListed waste code for Reactive Waste

22. E

This is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.Listed waste code for Corrosive WasteListed waste code for Toxicity Characteristic WasteThese characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).

23. Waste Code D004 - D043

Toxic characteristic waste codeListed waste code for Corrosive WasteThis is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.These characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).

24. U List (U001- U411)

Listed waste code for Corrosive WasteThese listed wastes are identified as toxic wastes and include discarded commercial chemical products, off-specification species, container residues, and spill residues including used chemicals that pose health risks due to their persistence in the environment or their potential for migrating through the environment. These wastes are dangerous to humans and the environment in small doses, but are not as toxic as P listed" wastes."These characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).This is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.

25. Corrosive Waste

These characteristic wastes represents the ability of the waste to destroy or deteriorate materials, chemically burn skin, enhance movement of toxic chemicals in the environment, react dangerously with other wastes, or harm fish and other aquatic life. These include, aqueous wastes (>50% water) if their pH is less than or equal to 2 or greater than or equal to 12.5 (e.g., rust remover, descaling products), and liquid wastes (e.g., ferric chloride) if they corrode steel by more than one-quarter inch per year.This is a category of hazardous waste containing common materials. It includes batteries, pesticides, mercury containing equipment, lamps, and some aerosol cans.Listed waste code for Corrosive WasteThese characteristic wastes can form explosive mixtures with water and produce dangerous quantities of toxic gases, vapors or fumes when mixed with water or when exposed to mild acids or bases. They can detonate, react or decompose explosively (e.g., hydrogen sulfide, cyanide or sulfide-bearing wastes, lithium-sulfur batteries, nitroglycerin formulations, ethylene oxide, sodium azide, and phosphorous).

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