Hazardous waste · inspections by year

Hazardous waste inspections in Hampden County, Massachusetts in 2025

• 40Handlers inspected
• 42Inspections on record
• 33Handlers inspected in 2024
• 2ndAmong Massachusetts counties that year

Hampden County, Massachusetts has 40 hazardous waste handlers with at least one inspection on record during 2025, across 42 separate inspections. That compares with 33 in 2024. It is the 2nd largest of the 10 Massachusetts 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 42
• 2018 35
• 2019 52
• 2020 27
• 2021 23
• 2022 26
• 2023 37
• 2024 33
• 2025 40
• 2026 24

By what a handler generates, in 2025

• Very small quantity generators inspected in Hampden County, Massachusetts 21
• Small quantity generators inspected in Hampden County, Massachusetts 13
• Large quantity generators inspected in Hampden County, Massachusetts 6

Comparable counties in Massachusetts, 2025

• Worcester County 27
• Norfolk County 26
• Essex County 24
• Bristol County 19
• Middlesex County 62
• Suffolk County 16
• Plymouth County 14
• Berkshire County 10

Inspections recorded in 2025

Figures from EPA’s RCRAInfo download.