Industrial lubricants are potential hazardous wastes. A hazardous waste determination should be made on any waste industrial lubricants. If they are determined to be hazardous, these lubricants must be managed as hazardous waste. All other waste lubricants should be managed as solid waste. If NR 590 applies to the lubricants and they are recycled, the lubricants are exempted from many of the solid and hazardous waste rule agreements.
Additional regulations apply to waste lubricants that contain PCBs or CFCs.
Reference Environmental Regulations in the Resources section for more information. Pepsi and the US Post Office, for example, use plastic pallets in their closed-loop systems. Plastic pallets are often used by automotive suppliers, electronics manufacturers, and pharmaceutical industries. Some plastic pallets are FDA-approved for use in the food industry. Other plastic pallets can be used for general industrial use for holding 55-gallon drums.