For metal finishing plants with significant generation rates of hazardous wastes, it may be wise to look at a hazardous waste delisting as a way to avoid high disposal costs. Once a facility is delisted the subject waste can be disposed in a Subtitle D landfill where the costs are frequently 4-8 times cheaper. Further, many of the headaches that go along with handling hazardous wastes (e.g., manifesting, training, spill response, closure, etc.) go away or are sub-stantially reduced.
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