Hazardous waste · inspections by year

Hazardous waste inspections in San Diego County, California in 2025

• 112Handlers inspected
• 194Inspections on record
• 72Handlers inspected in 2024
• 3rdAmong California counties that year

San Diego County, California has 112 hazardous waste handlers with at least one inspection on record during 2025, across 194 separate inspections. That compares with 72 in 2024. It is the 3rd largest of the 30 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 79
• 2018 66
• 2019 96
• 2020 47
• 2021 56
• 2022 90
• 2023 63
• 2024 72
• 2025 112
• 2026 26

By what a handler generates, in 2025

• Large quantity generators inspected in San Diego County, California 98
• Small quantity generators inspected in San Diego County, California 4

Comparable counties in California, 2025

• Alameda County 73
• Butte County 8
• Contra Costa County 53
• El Dorado County 3
• Fresno County 11
• Glenn County 4
• Imperial County 5
• Kern County 23
• Kings County 6
• Los Angeles County 288
• Madera County 4
• Merced County 7
• Monterey County 3
• Orange County 134
• Placer County 8
• Riverside County 20
• Sacramento County 15
• San Bernardino County 53
• San Francisco County 16
• San Joaquin County 17

Inspections recorded in 2025

Figures from EPA’s RCRAInfo download.