Hazardous waste · inspections by year

Hazardous waste inspections in Guilford County, North Carolina in 2026

• 29Handlers inspected
• 89Inspections on record
• 45Handlers inspected in 2025
• 1stAmong North Carolina counties that year

Guilford County, North Carolina has 29 hazardous waste handlers with at least one inspection on record during 2026, across 89 separate inspections. That compares with 45 in 2025. It is the 1st largest of the 26 North Carolina 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 33
• 2018 41
• 2019 35
• 2020 14
• 2021 19
• 2022 30
• 2023 31
• 2024 51
• 2025 45
• 2026 29

By what a handler generates, in 2026

• Large quantity generators inspected in Guilford County, North Carolina 19
• Small quantity generators inspected in Guilford County, North Carolina 6
• Very small quantity generators inspected in Guilford County, North Carolina 4

Comparable counties in North Carolina, 2026

• Brunswick County 4
• Buncombe County 5
• Cabarrus County 3
• Catawba County 9
• Cleveland County 5
• Cumberland County 5
• Davidson County 5
• Durham County 14
• Forsyth County 12
• Gaston County 10
• Lenoir County 3
• Mecklenburg County 16
• Nash County 5
• New Hanover County 11
• Onslow County 3
• Pitt County 5
• Randolph County 4
• Robeson County 3
• Rockingham County 4
• Rowan County 3

Inspections recorded in 2026

Figures from EPA’s RCRAInfo download.