Acceptance Limitations
Unacceptable Materials
- Biological Wastes
- Containers under Significant Pressure
- Explosives
- Household Hazardous Waste (unless received as Hazardous Waste)
- Lachrymators
- Lacquer Dust (with Nitrocellulose) and all Solids from Furniture Manufacturers
- Linseed Oil, Tung Oil, or Fatty Acid Methyl Ester (Soygold) Contaminated Solids
- Organic Peroxides
- Oxidizers
- Poison Inhalation Hazard Wastes (Zone A or Zone B)
- Pyrophorics
- Reactive Wastes (D003)
- Radioactive Wastes
- Steel Wool, Brillo Pads, etc.
- Vinyl Acetate Monomer (>15%)
Materials Requiring Pre-Approval
- Acetonitrile (>5%)
- Acetaldehyde (Ethanal, Acetic Aldehyde, Ethyl Aldehyde) (>15%)
- Activators
- Aluminum Isopropoxide (>5%)
- Amides
- Amines
- 1,2 Butylene Oxide (Epoxybutane)
- Catalyst
- Chloroform
- Corrosives (Examples: D002 Waste and pH <3 or >11)
- Cresols >30%
- Curing Agents
- Cyclopentadiene
- Dicyclopentadiene
- Divinylbenzene (>10%)
- Epichlorohydrin
- Ethylene Chlorohydrin (2-Chloroethanol, Glycol Chlorohydrin)
- Ethyleneimine
- Foams
- Formalin (Formaldehyde)
- Hardeners
- Heated Material (for Pumpability)
- Isocyanates (Examples: TDI >1%, MDI >5%, HDI)
- Metal Powders/Shavings/Turnings (Aluminum, Zinc, Titanium, Zirconium)
- PCB’s (case-by-case)
- Pesticides, Herbicides (including D012 through D017)
- Phenol (>5%)
- Piperazine (Example: Aminoethylpiperazine)
- Piperidine
- Siloxanes/Silanes
- Styrene and Acrylate Monomers
- Tetraisopropyl Titanate
- Urethanes (Containing >5% Isocyanates)