Managing Your Hazardous Waste: A Guide for Small Businesses

This user-friendly manual is targeted to small quantity generators of hazardous wastes.

The manual helps small businesses determine whether they generate hazardous waste and provides comprehensive information on how to comply with the federal hazardous waste regulations for small quantity generators. It explains how to obtain an EPA identification number, manage hazardous waste on site, ship hazardous waste off site, comply with land disposal restrictions, and conduct good housekeeping.

This is an update of the 1996 version of the manual.

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Managing Your Hazardous Waste: A Guide for Small Businesses (PDF) (31 pp, 1.0MB) || Text || en Español (PDF) (33 pp, 1.2MB)

Hazardous Waste Code Chart (PDF) [To print the chart you will need 11" x 17" paper] (1 pg, 68K) || Tabla de Códigos de Residuos Peligrosos (PDF) (1 pg, 69K)

Managing Your Hazardous Waste: A Guide for Small Businesses

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