Disposal of process equipment 1

[WARose]

If you have some chemical process equipment (that no salvage person is interested in), does it have to go to some sort of toxic waste dump (even if it is empty)? The equipment ran all sorts of unsavory chemicals such as acids.

 

[bimr]

Depends on what the equipment is. If it is metal for example, you can decontaminate the equipment, dismantle the equipment, and recycle the metal.

Solid wastes have to meet specific definitions to be considered a toxic or hazardous waste. A solid waste is a hazardous waste if it is specifically listed as a known hazardous waste or meets the characteristics of a hazardous waste. Listed wastes are wastes from common manufacturing and industrial processes, specific industries and can be generated from discarded commercial products. Characteristic wastes are wastes that exhibit any one or more of the following characteristic properties: ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity or toxicity.

Definitions

decontaminate-dismantle-docommission-process

 

[WARose]

Thanks bimr.