Hazardous waste · inspections by year

Hazardous waste inspections in Los Angeles County, California in 2026

• 166Handlers inspected
• 234Inspections on record
• 288Handlers inspected in 2025
• 1stAmong California counties that year

Los Angeles County, California has 166 hazardous waste handlers with at least one inspection on record during 2026, across 234 separate inspections. That compares with 288 in 2025. It is the 1st largest of the 24 California counties with three or more handlers inspected that year. Each row below carries the date the inspection was recorded, the agency that recorded it and the kind of inspection it was.

Other years

• 2017 195
• 2018 223
• 2019 268
• 2020 182
• 2021 260
• 2022 308
• 2023 272
• 2024 369
• 2025 288
• 2026 166

By what a handler generates, in 2026

• Large quantity generators inspected in Los Angeles County, California 137
• Small quantity generators inspected in Los Angeles County, California 11
• Very small quantity generators inspected in Los Angeles County, California 4

Comparable counties in California, 2026

• Alameda County 31
• Contra Costa County 31
• Fresno County 9
• Imperial County 3
• Kern County 24
• Marin County 3
• Monterey County 7
• Orange County 81
• Placer County 4
• Riverside County 24
• Sacramento County 11
• San Bernardino County 53
• San Diego County 26
• San Joaquin County 11
• San Mateo County 22
• Santa Barbara County 8
• Santa Clara County 35
• Santa Cruz County 7
• Solano County 7
• Stanislaus County 6

Inspections recorded in 2026

Figures from EPA’s RCRAInfo download.