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Unknown Chemical Waste
Faculty and Staff must make every effort to provide
an accurate description of all chemical waste. Unknown
chemical waste presents a serious problem for the
Hazardous Waste Division of EHS. Without an accurate
description, chemicals can not be disposed of in
a safe manner. Disposal companies will not accept
chemical waste without an accurate description and
analysis of unknowns can easily cost up to several
hundred dollars. When a laboratory determines that it has a chemical
waste material that it cannot identify, contact the
Hazardous Waste Division. We will assist you in making
a proper identification of the chemical. In cases
where together we cannot identify the chemical, a
sample of the unknown will be sent to an analytical
laboratory for identification. In the past, EHS has assumed the cost of the identification
of many unknowns. Due to the high cost of analysis,
EHS does reserve the right to institute a charge-back
program for the charges associated with the analysis. |
