10 steps to hazardous waste compliance
Many hazardous waste generators are also required to obtain an Industrial Stormwater Permit. To find out if you need a permit, visit our Stormwater permits page.
Identification and general information
- Current rulemaking projects, including revisor number, webpage, rule summary, contacts, and timetable.
- Minnesota Duty Officer
Very small quantity generator collection
Specific industries
Construction and demolition
Drycleaning
- Drycleaner Fund: Environmental Response and Reimbursement Account
- Dry cleaner alternatives to reduce waste and emissions (MnTAP)
Health care
Metal finishing
Retail
Specific business wastes
- Amalgam: Universal wastes (w-hw4-62)
- Amalgam separators
- Asbestos
- Ballasts and small capacitors: PCBs — ballasts and small capacitors (w-hw4-48f)
- Batteries, all hazardous types: Universal wastes (w-hw4-62)
- Battery sales: Lead-acid batteries, requirements for sellers and battery sign (h-hw4-07)
- Carbon monoxide detectors and alarms: Smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and alarms (w-hw4-53)
- Car washes: Land application of vehicle wash and vehicle storage wastewater (wq-lndapp2-08)
- Catalytic converters: Hazardous scrap metal (w-hw4-27)
- E-cigarettes: Vaping Liquids, E-cigarettes and Nicotine Wastes (w-hw4-65)
- Filters — oil: Oil, used, and related wastes: management for generators (w-hw4-30)
- Filters — paint: Painting wastes: filters, gun cleaner, and thinner (w-hw4-38)
- Firing ranges — indoor: Protecting workers from lead hazards at indoor firing ranges (OSHA fact sheet)
- Firing ranges — outdoor: Outdoor shooting ranges (w-hw4-14)
- Fluorescent lamps: Universal wastes (w-hw4-62)
- Fluorescent lamp retailers: Selling fluorescent lamps (w-hw4-21)
- Foreclosed homes: Managing waste from residential properties in preparation for resale (w-hw3-12)
- Gun cleaner: Painting wastes: filters, gun cleaner, and thinner (w-hw4-38)
- Mercury in dental wastewater
- Mercury-containing equipment: Universal wastes (w-hw4-62)
- Mercury-containing flooring: Flooring — Mercury-catalyzed polyurethane flooring (MCPF) (w-hw4-25)
- Mercury cosmetic & pharmaceutical sales: Selling mercury cosmetics and pharmaceuticals (w-hw4-11)
- Mercury item sales: Selling mercury items (w-hw4-26)
- Nicotine: Vaping liquids, e-cigarettes and nicotine wastes (w-hw4-65)
- Oil — crude: Crude oil and unrefined petroleum wastes (w-hw4-11)
- Oil — new: sales: Motor oil and filter retailers (w-hw4-36)
- Oil — used: burning: Burning used oil (w-hw4-32)
- Oil — used: generators: Oil, used, and related wastes: Management for generators (w-hw4-30)
- Oil — used: marketers: Managing used oil and related oil waste (w-hw4-34)
- Oil — used: transporters: Oil, used and related wastes: Management for transporters (w-hw4-31)
- Painting wastes: Painting wastes: filters, gun cleaner, and thinner (w-hw4-38)
- Pesticides: Universal Wastes (w-hw4-62)
- Perfluorochemicals (PFCs): PFAS pollution
- PFAS firefighting foam: Firefighting foam use and disposal (w-hw4-17)
- Pharmaceuticals — household waste
- Pharmaceuticals — law enforcement agency wastes: Law enforcement agency waste (w-hw4-13)
- Radioactive waste (Minnesota Department of Health)
- Scrap metal: Hazardous scrap metal (w-hw4-27)
- Sharps — business: Infectious waste - generators (w-sw4-30)
- Sharps — household: Disposal options for needles and syringes (w-hhw4-67)
- Shooting ranges — indoor: Protecting workers from lead hazards at indoor firing ranges (OSHA fact sheet)
- Shooting ranges — outdoor: Outdoor shooting ranges (w-hw4-14)
- Vaping wastes at schools: School wastes
- Wheel weights: Hazardous scrap metal (w-hw4-27)
- X-ray waste: Photographic and x-ray waste (w-hw4-46)
Resources
- Minnesota Materials Exchange
- Minnesota Recycling Markets Directory
- Small business environmental improvement loans
Forms
Note: This e-Service replaces U.S. EPA Form 8700-12, U.S. EPA 8700-13A/B, the EPA's myRCRAid tool, and MPCA form w-hw7-09 for Minnesota sites. - Instructional video for Notification of Regulated Waste Activity e-Service
- Effective Jan. 1, 2024
Generators in greater Minnesota should follow these instructions. Generators in the seven-county Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area should contact their county hazardous waste office for licensing forms and instructions. Contact information for metro county hazardous waste offices can be found at the bottom of this page.
Metropolitan county hazardous waste programs
- Anoka County, Community Health and Environmental Services Department — 763-422-7063
- Carver County, Public Health and Environment Division — 952-361-1800
- Dakota County, Environmental Management Department — 952-891-7557
- Hennepin County, Department of Environmental Services — 612-348-3777
- Ramsey County, Department of Public Health and Environment — 651-266-1199
- Scott County, Environmental Services — 952-496-8475
- Washington County, Department of Public Health and Environment — 651-430-6655