All businesses create useless or unwanted wastes as part of their normal operating procedure.
While there are many categories of wastes, small businesses should be most concerned with hazardous wastes that may pose a threat to human health and the environment. This fact sheet has been designed to help you determine if your wastes are considered hazardous and determine your generator status for compliance purposes. This can be done by either applying knowledge of what is in the waste or analyzing the waste by an approved test method. If a waste is determined to be hazardous, specific state rules apply to its management and disposal. Program's MSDS Fact Sheet .