What Is Required to Treat Hazardous Waste in Wastewater Treatment Units?
Q. We generate a paint stripper waste with a pH greater than 12.5. The waste has been tested and carries no other hazardous waste codes except the D002 for corrosivity. Currently, it is sent off site for treatment as a hazardous waste. However, we would like to start treating this waste through our wastewater treatment operation and discharge it through our NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) permit. If we decide to do this, would we need to label the containers once the waste is dumped into them? It seems like since this would be handled through the NPDES permit and Clean Water Act, then it is no longer a solid waste and no longer a hazardous waste, so an HMR sticker or other identifier would be appropriate. A. Although the hazardous waste regulations will allow you to treat hazardous waste in a wastewater treatment unit (as defined at 40 CFR 260.10) without a hazardous waste permit [40 CFR 270.1(c)(2)(v)] and without the wastewater treatment unit complying with TS
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- What Is Required to Treat Hazardous Waste in Wastewater Treatment Units?
