Industrial/Commercial Waste
Industrial waste
Industrial waste means solid waste generated by manufacturing or industrial processes. Such processes may include, but are not limited to the following:
- electric power generation
- fertilizer/agricultural chemicals; inorganic chemicals
- iron and steel manufacturing
- leather and leather products
- nonferrous metals manufacturing/foundries
- organic chemicals
- plastics and resins manufacturing
- pulp and paper industry
- rubber and miscellaneous plastic products
- stone, glass, clay and concrete products
- textile manufacturing
- transportation equipment
- water treatment
The forms of such wastes are exemplified by but not limited to: liquids such as acids, alkalis, caustics, leachate, petroleum (and its derivatives), and processes or treatment wastewaters; sludges which are semi-solid substances resulting from process or treatment operations or residues from storage or use of liquids; solidified chemicals, paints or pigments; and dredge spoil generated by manufacturing or industrial processes, foundry sand, and the end or by-products of incineration or other forms of combustion. This term does not include oil or gas drilling, production, and treatment wastes (such as brines, oil, and frac fluids); overburden, spoil, or tailings resulting from mining; or solution mining brine and insoluble component wastes.
Commercial waste
Commercial waste means solid waste generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses and nonmanufacturing activities at industrial facilities.
DMM, Bureau of Solid Waste Management
625 Broadway
Albany, NY 12233
