Mixing hazardous and nonhazardous wastes increases the volume of hazardous wastes and therefore increases disposal costs. Moisture could increase the volume of your hazardous waste, increasing your disposal costs. Check with your local fire department about storage of flammable materials. Contact the Missouri Department of Natural Resources for more information. Try to avoid using underground tank storage systems.
Regulations require costly monitoring and testing.
The less activity the better for preventing accidental spills or leaks. Often, we do things a certain way because that's how we were trained. We may not even know why we do it that way. Maybe the real reason for how it was done in the past no longer applies. Every so often it may be a good idea to step back and look at how we do even simple tasks in a business.